title: Simulating communication routes in Mediterranean alluvial plains
creator: Fiz, Ignacio
creator: Orengo, Hèctor A.
subject: 930
subject: Alte Geschichte, Vor- und Frühgeschichte, Archäologie
subject: Europe north and west of Italy (Antiquity) [R936]
description: Societies exchange knowledge, ideas and merchandise throughout their territories. Topography plays a fundamental role in the trajectory of such movements whilst helping to explain the distribution of human constructions. Standard GIS functions have been employed widely to simulate communication routes between settlements, but the straight application of published least cost route models proved inadequate for Mediterranean alluvial plain areas in which seasonal floods become an important factor to acknowledge. The objective of this study is the production of a new model, using topographic and hydrologic factors as variables from which it would be possible to simulate a route, and test it against known Roman itineraries. The selected Roman stretches are Girona – Coll de Pannisars and Tarragona – Montblanc. The new model shows the need to consider each case individually but also stresses the hydrologic factor, expressed in seasonal floods, as being of prime importance in the creation and development of Roman roads in Mediterranean alluvial plains.
contributor: Posluschny, A.
contributor: Lambers, K.
contributor: Herzog, I.
date: 2008
type: Book Section
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPart
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/propylaeumdokhttps://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/propylaeumdok/518/1/10_02_fiz_routes.pdf
identifier: DOI:10.11588/propylaeumdok.00000518
identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-propylaeumdok-5180
identifier:   Fiz, Ignacio ; Orengo, Hèctor A.  (2008) Simulating communication routes in Mediterranean alluvial plains.   In: Posluschny, A. ; Lambers, K. ; Herzog, I. (Hrsgg.):  Layers of Perception. Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA), Berlin, 2.-6. April 2007. Koll. Vor- u. Frühgesch. 10.   Bonn 2008, pp. 316-321        
relation: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/propylaeumdok/518/
rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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language: eng