Handbook of geoarchaeology. A remote geomorphological approach

Romolo Loreto; Bruno Marcolongo

doi:10.6093/978-88-6719-264-9

Handbook of geoarchaeology. A remote geomorphological approach

Authors

Romolo Loreto

University of Naples L'Orientale

Bruno Marcolongo

National Research Council

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6093/978-88-6719-264-9

Keywords:

archaeology, geoarchaeology, geomorphology, remote sensing, landscape archaeology

Synopsis

Publisher: UniorPress

Series: Shared knowledges

Pages: 286

Language: Italian

NBN: http://nbn.depositolegale.it/urn:nbn:it:unina-28993

Abstract: This Handbook of geoarchaeology. A remote geomorphological approach intends to offer itself as a training and knowledge tool to those who, university students, researchers and connoisseurs of the subject, intend to deepen the study of the environment as a context of the testimonies of the past in its perennial evolution of forms and resources.

It collects the experience acquired in the field, over several decades of reconnaissance and excavation activities, by its authors in Italy and in numerous countries of the near and middle east, central Asia and north Africa. Researches supported and always conducted with the aid of a privileged perspective point, such as that offered by the various remote sensing images taken with different sensors from aerial and satellite platforms in successive time periods, the interpretation of which has always been compared with direct observations, or with the so-called 'ground truthing'.

Precisely this close integration between landscape, local resources and more or less ancient anthropic emergencies constitutes the backbone of the book, expressed through numerous and exhaustive examples of analysis in various environments of the Mediterranean area, the Near East and Asia that see applied a theoretical approach amply illustrated in the first part of the volume.

The hope is that the productive combination of advanced technology and culture will become a common attitude among the younger generations of future scholars and that the experience gained in this area by the writers will be collected and implemented, reaching new goals and more fruitful results.

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Author Biographies

Romolo Loreto, University of Naples L'Orientale

Romolo Loreto is an archaeologist and Associate Professor for the teaching of Archeology and History of Art of the Ancient Near East at the University of Naples L’Orientale and of Archeology of the Arabian Peninsula for the Inter-University Scuola di Specializzazione Interateneo Beni Archeologici “Tra Oriente e Occidente” (Naples-L’Orientale - University of Salerno). From 2002 to 2010 he collaborated in the excavations of the Italian Archaeological Mission in Yemen, in Barāqish and Tamnaʾ. Since 2011 he has directed the Italian archaeological and restoration missions in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia with the patronage of L'Orientale, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, the Ministry of Education, University and Research, “The Barakat Trust” and the Saudi Ministry of Culture. Since 2013 he has directed the Archaeological Mission of L’Orientale in the Sultanate of Oman in the Sharqiya North region and since 2014 he has co-directed the Underwater Mission in the Red Sea in Ummluj, on behalf of L’Orientale and the Saudi Ministry of Cultures. He is the author and co-author of over 100 scientific publications and five monographs on the archeology and history of the Arabian Peninsula.

Bruno Marcolongo, National Research Council

Bruno Marcolongo, geologist and Senior Researcher at the National Research Council, is currently associated with the Institute of Cultural Heritage Sciences in Rome and has been studying in the geo-archaeological and geo-environmental fields for over 45 years. He has participated since 1976, as an expert of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, in the organization and management of numerous exploration and excavation missions in various countries of the Near and Middle East (Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Libya) and Central Asia (Turkmenistan, Mongolia). He was an expert in Brussels for the European Community in the 1980s and 1990s in the development of environmental and geoarchaeological research with advanced technologies. He directed a geoarchaeological mission of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Academy of Sciences of Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia (2000-2014). He has also frequented India for a long time, linked by collaborations with the Deccan College of Pune, the Archeological Survey of India and the Ecole Française d’Extrème Orient in Pondicherry. Finally, for many years he was contract lecturer at the Universities of Udine and Padua in the field of Remote Sensing for the Environment and Archeology. He is the author and co-author of over 150 scientific publications and two university handbooks on photogeology and the application of remote sensing to earth sciences.