Articles by Carmelina Ariosto

This contribution provides an overview of the historical and topographical XI municipality Arvalia Portuense - that is part of the southwestern suburbs of Rome. The dynamics of exploitation of this area are conditioned by the presence of the Tiber river and of important roads such as the ancient Via Campana and Via Portuense. In this paper some sites are presented, which describe the complexity of settlement of the Portuense district, particularly between the archaic and the Republican era, through an analysis of the traces of infrastructures, land use and necropolis. Starting from some sites in which the presence of major emergencies makes the establishment of strategies for the protection of archaeological resources increasingly urgent, the SITAR office started the digitization and cataloguing of archaeological data and the webGIS platform was implemented with the new data. A tool like SITAR, which offers a detailed, easy to update picture of the territory, allows us to steer the archaeological record in the current topographical context and represents a valuable support, useful, on the one hand, to speed up the procedures of data-entry and, on the other to direct the planning of a continuously expanding urban area.