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Field Survey, GIS and excavations in the territory of Cyrene and Lamluda. Interim report of Chieti Mission
No full textThe Archaeological Mission of Chieti University is working in Libya since 1997, mainly concentrated on the intensive field survey, GIS mapping and excavation in the necropolis of Cyrene, in the rupestrian sanctuaries in the region and in the Roman site of Lamluda. The team of Chieti University is employing the most recent protocols for mapping, excavations and restorations, such as the use of DGPS positioning and GIS mapping and database, the infra-red thermo-camera for diagnostic analysis of the monuments, 3D laser scanning of the monuments, remote sensing. The article illustrates the results of the team for the period 1998-2008, with just new data original results. The team works in strict collaboration with other Libyan and International teams, such as the colleagues of the Department of Antiquities of Tripoli and of the Libyan Ministry of Archaeology and Turism, the Universities of Benghazi, Tripoli and Al Bayda, Oberlin College-Ohio, the Libyan Society of London, consultants of UNESCO
Capestrano: scavi e ricognizioni 2003-2009
No full textThe Aufinum Project in the area of capestrano is investigating since 2002 the area of the settlement and some sections of the huge necropolis. In this paper are presented the results of the excavations and survey seasons of the first 5 years of the project. The researches are demonstrating the importance of this site, which is famous for the find of the so called Capestrano Warrior, but is also rich in finds of different periods and cultures
Lamluda, un insediamento rurale nella chora di Cirene: primi dati di scavo (luglio 2008) - Progetto Lamluda, Libia: survey, GIS e Scavi
No full textLamluda an important Roman and late-Roman site of the Cyrenaican chora. It had an active role in the exploitation of the agricultural resources in eastern Cyrenaica, acting as one of the main centres for the trade of local wine and oil, through the close ports of Ras el Ilal and Latrun. The paper is a preliminary report of the excavations and survey in this site
GIS OF THE NECROPOLEIS OF ANCIENT CYRENE (LIBYA)
No full textCyrene presents one of the largest and most spectacular necropolis of the
Mediterranean basin, but at the same time it is the less known by the scholars. Recent
studies of the scholar J. Thorn have presented a preliminary view of the architectonical
monumentality, especially for the rocky chamber tombs, showing the need of new
survey projects in the area. The team of Chieti University started in 1999 a project
of surveying and mapping of the southern and eastern necropolis, giving birth to a
GIS using differential GPS and Robotic total station for positioning and recording
of the tombs and multispectral HD satellite images, previously hortho-rectifi ed and
geo-referred, combined with RADAR images for highly detailed topographic base,
DEM and DTM. From 2004, the survey and the GIS have been extended also to the
western and northern necropolis, counting at the moment about 1500 mapped and
recorded tombs. From the large amount of results is now possible to create models
of the evolution of the necropolis, looking to its landscape assessment, to its growth
in combination with the urban context, to the development of the architectonical
typologies of the tombs, in order to contextualize more properly, chronologically and
topographically, the progresses of this monumental city of the dead. This contribution
is dedicated to the Late Jim Thorn, who devoted his life in mapping and saving the
tombs of Cyrene, and introduced and involved our team in this projec
THE KOURIS VALLEY SURVEY PROJECT 2007: METHODOLOGIES AND PRELIMINARY RESULTS
No full textDifferent institutions are involved in the KVSP, such as the Departments of Antiquities
of the Universities of Florence and Chieti, the laboratory of CAAM (Centre of the
Athenaeum for Archaeometry and Microanalysis) of Chieti University, in collaboration
with the Department of Antiquities of Lefkosia and the Archaeological Museums of
Limassol and Episkopi. From the geo-morphological point of view the Kouris valley
represents one of the largest and deepest valleys of the southern areas of Cyprus,
cutting profoundly the limestone ridge belonging to the Trodos mountainous system.
In antiquity the Trodos area has been extremely important for the presence of rich
bronze mines, which have been intensively exploited since the beginning of the Bronze
Age and exported widely in the eastern Mediterranean basin. The Kouris valley,
therefore, with its terraced slopes, offered in antiquity the possibility of an important
natural road network, along several main and secondary tracks following the river
and its secondary valleys, and connecting the Trodos mines with the southern ports
of Cyprus. The aim of the project is the intensive survey of the valley, in order to
reconstruct the mechanisms of settling and the use of the local road network in the
ancient landscape assessment and its changes and evolution from the Bronze Age
to the classical period. Already during the fi rst season, in 2007, the survey is giving
interesting data, which are recorded in real time in a multilayer GIS, employing DGPS
in recording the sites, a magnetometer and a geo-resistivimeter for non invasive geoprospecting
and remote sensing on multispectral high defi nition satellite images
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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