“…One of the first challenges in this research was to unite all the dispersed information about the structure and occupation of the lower Tiber valley into a single resource, including both archaeological and geoarchaeological data. This was achieved through the use of database management systems (DBMS) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS), tools that are becoming increasingly common in archaeological research for spatial analysis (Scheidel and Meeks, 2012;Moreno Escobar and Wheatley, 2016;López-Mondéjar, 2019) and for data management, data reuse and archival purposes (Moreno Escobar and García Sanjuán, 2013;Buzón Alarcón et al, 2016;Ark, 2 the Digital Atlas of Roman and Medieval Civilizations 3 ). Their main interest resides in their potential for compiling, structuring, visualizing and analysing vast and complex data sets, both spatially and temporally, but (more interestingly) they are especially suitable for evaluating and testing hypotheses through models and simulations (Brughmans et al, 2019).…”