From landscape to excavation: using new smart tools for multiscale archaeological investigations

Emanuele Brienza

Abstract

The world of geomatics today provides new tools, smart, low cost and easy-to-use for archaeological research in the field, from geographical positioning to detailed survey of past evidence. These instruments, light and not bulky, interface directly with tablets, I-Pads or smartphones via intuitive applications and speed up the data collection in the field, making the spatial and typological integration of archeological record increasingly and easier. However, to what extent these tools, beyond their apparent effectiveness, are precise and reliable and in which frameworks work better or worse? In this year I had the chance to use a new smart system for centimetric georeferencing, the Trimble Catalyst DA2, in various ancient sites of the world, facing different logistic and environmental situations, and following distinct purposes and targets: the use of this new geo-positioning system was always associated to detailed and close-range survey activities, related to landscape archaeology investigations and stratigraphic excavations.

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DOI

10.21014/tc4-ARC-2023.042

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TC4 - Measurement of Electrical Quantities

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