How to reconstruct the human mobility in mountainous area. A case from North-Eastern Italy

Chiara Mascarello

«Archeologia e Calcolatori» 2023, 34.1, 341-348; doi: 10.19282/ac.34.1.2023.36

Abstract

The aim of this research is to define a new methodology in order to reconstruct the historical human mobility network in mountain areas in a perspective of ‘longue durée’. Through the match of different types of data, in particular historical and archaeological sources, the analysis of environmental features and the application of a series of algorithms on a GIS platform, we produced a series of maps of possible mobility networks. The comparison between them and with the historical cartography emphasizes both continuities and breaks over time and outlines the reliability of the elaborations obtained. Our focus is a small region in the North-Eastern Italy, called Feltrino (BL), on a time frame from the Bronze Age to the modern times

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