Landscape And Archaeology. Representing History For Places

Federico Nurra (1)

1 DADU, Università degli Studi di Sassari, Sassari

The aim of this paper is to present the objectives and preliminary results of a research project, currently ongoing, framed within the ‘ancient topography’, but looking to the latest practices of spatial planning focused on the environment. Today, as the principle of individual profit and income is prevailing the concept of publica utilitas, it seems crucial to identify the archaeological public heritage, hroughout the territory, not merely as economic and monetary source, ut as a cultural and social resource, too often ignored. A reflection is proposed, in order to prevent the impoverishment of cultural sense of territory and urbs. An upstream deep reconsideration of some positions (usual in the praxis of predominantly object-oriented conservation) will be needed, orienting the study towards a new reading and interpretation of historical evidences (both visible, such as ruins, an agrarian structure or a road network, or invisible, such as toponymic fossils, oral traditions or suggestions) contributing to the modification of the landscape, up to the present perceived ‘shape’. Expected result will be a new model of representation of perceived variations of the character of historicity of the Landscape, not as census, cadastre or simple result of the territorial invariants, but as an instrument of help, support and direction to every study plan.

Mots clés: Cartography; Ancient Topography; Landscape

Domaines: Archéologie et Préhistoire; Architecture, aménagement de l'espace

Federico Nurra. Landscape And Archaeology. Representing History For Places. I Quaderni di Careggi, 2014, Common Goods from a Landscape Perspective, 6, pp.133-138. ⟨hal-01472396⟩