Modern Road Archaeology: Identification and Classification Proposal

Ruiz, Rita

doi:10.1007/s10761-016-0340-y

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“…The largest single project of the state was building roads (Fig. 11), which are often the largest datable historic landscape feature (Ruiz 2016) Already before the First World War, planners acting on a 1908 parliamentary directive to develop the south had projected roads to be built into the mountains (Mollica 1991). In a 1920s climate of large-scale public works, they began to act, building the first long-distance coastal road since Roman times.…”

Section: Landscape Projects Of the State: Political Control Roads Amentioning

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The Twentieth Century Invention of Ancient Mountains: The Archaeology of Highland Aspromonte

Robb

Chesson

Forbes

et al. 2020

Int J Histor Archaeol

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The high mountains of the Mediterranean are often considered as refuges of ancient traditions, particularly of pastoralism and brigandage. Is this image true? This paper reports the first systematic archaeological research on Aspromonte, Southern Calabria. Archaeological, cartographic and air photo evidence suggests that people used the high mountains in all periods from the Neolithic onwards. However, early usage was lowintensity and probably for special purposes such as iron-smelting, charcoal-burning and logging; only in the Classical Greek period was there sustained effort at inhabiting higher areas. The real development of the mountains came in the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries. From the 1920s onwards, there were large-scale, state-fostered projects for economic exploitation of forests, political control of territory, and creation of a recreational landscape. These endeavors tied into modernist ideas of the state, as well as period concepts such as Alpinism and healthy outdoor recreation for city dwellers. Ironically, as soon as these modern efforts made the high mountains accessible, they were assigned a chronotope, and were reimagined as the exemplification of an ancient way of life.

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Section: Landscape Projects Of the State: Political Control Roads Amentioning

confidence: 99%

The Twentieth Century Invention of Ancient Mountains: The Archaeology of Highland Aspromonte

Robb

Chesson

Forbes

et al. 2020

Int J Histor Archaeol

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“…Urban development is also accompanied and facilitated by the development of transport networks composed of paths, unimproved and improved roads, railways and waterways connecting rural resources and people to distant markets and population centres (Bell and Iida, 1997;Kara and Verter, 2004;Morriss, 2003Morriss, , 2005Ruiz, 2016;Snead et al, 2009). Roads are ubiquitous features of landscapes and different shapes of road network represent the different evolution of civilization at different times (Strano et al, 2012).…”

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From features to fingerprints: A general diagnostic framework for anthropogenic geomorphology

Tarolli¹,

Cao

Sofia

et al. 2019

Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment

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Human societies have been reshaping the geomorphology of landscapes for thousands of years, producing anthropogenic geomorphic features ranging from earthworks and reservoirs to settlements, roads, canals, ditches and plough furrows that have distinct characteristics compared with landforms produced by natural processes. Physical geographers have long recognized the widespread importance of these features in altering landforms and geomorphic processes, including hydrologic flows and stores, to processes of soil erosion and deposition. In many of the same landscapes, archaeologists have also utilized anthropogenic geomorphic features to detect and analyse human societal activities, including symbolic formations, agricultural systems, settlement patterns and trade networks. This paper provides a general framework aimed at integrating geophysical and archaeological approaches to observing, identifying and interpreting the full range of anthropogenic geomorphic features based on their structure and functioning, both individually and as components of landscape-scale management strategies by different societies, or “sociocultural fingerprints”. We then couple this framework with new algorithms developed to detect anthropogenic geomorphic features using precisely detailed three-dimensional reconstructions of landscape surface structure derived from LiDAR and computer vision photogrammetry. Human societies are now transforming the geomorphology of landscapes at increasing rates and scales across the globe. To understand the causes and consequences of these transformations and contribute to building sustainable futures, the science of physical geography must advance towards empirical and theoretical frameworks that integrate the natural and sociocultural forces that are now the main shapers of Earth’s surface processes.

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Heritage Preservation Training in Civil Engineering Education: Modern Roads Restoration Projects

Ruiz

Moyano

Ávila

et al. 2018

J. Prof. Issues Eng. Educ. Pract.

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Modern Road Archaeology: Identification and Classification Proposal

Cited by 4 publications

References 11 publications

The Twentieth Century Invention of Ancient Mountains: The Archaeology of Highland Aspromonte

The Twentieth Century Invention of Ancient Mountains: The Archaeology of Highland Aspromonte

From features to fingerprints: A general diagnostic framework for anthropogenic geomorphology

Heritage Preservation Training in Civil Engineering Education: Modern Roads Restoration Projects

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