The construction of the Aswan Dam put an end to a form of relationship between people and the environment that had its origin in the pre-Pharaonic period. The annual Nile flood had been tamed and managed for centuries by the societies of the Nile delta. However, by the nineteenth century, attempts to modernize Egypt according to Western standards led to a gradual change in how the river was managed and exploited, focusing on permanent irrigation of the land. These changes took the form of successive hydraulic engineering projects that transformed the entire landscape. Our project aims to analyze how this long process took place, from the Greco-Roman period to the present day, by focussing on the middle valley of the Nile, in the area corresponding to the Oxyrhynchus nome (province), in order to reconstruct the methods of flood management and how they have transformed the landscape.For this purpose, we have combined an analysis of archaeological and written documentation, consisting primarily of papyrological data and secondary sources. We have also combined a reading of the historical cartography with the identification of traces of dykes and canals from satellite images (CORONA, ASTER, Quickbird, Worldview 2), and related enhancing functions of satellite imagery. These data were organized and registered on a GIS geodatabase that enabled all the information to be analyzed and confirmed. Our initial findings define an ancient landscape, in which old channels structured the landscape around the nome. These channels, and their levees associated with dykes, favoured both the containment of water and terrestrial transport, in an area that would be completely inundated in the flood season. This combination of channels with some element of retention was important for territorial and administrative organization within the nome, the administrative territorial division of Egypt, and its subdivision the toparchy.
This article presents the first results obtained from the use of high-resolution images from the SAR-X sensor of the PAZ satellite platform. These are in result of the application of various radar image-treatment techniques, with which we wanted to carry out a non-invasive exploration of areas of the archaeological site of Clunia (Burgos, Spain). These areas were analyzed and contrasted with other sources from high-resolution multispectral images (TripleSat), or from digital surface models obtained from Laser Imaging Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) data from the National Plan for Aerial Orthophotography (PNOA), and treated with image enhancement functions (Relief Visualization Tools (RVT)). Moreover, they were compared with multispectral images created from the Infrared Red Blue (IRRB) data contained in the same LiDAR points.
RESUMENEn este trabajo se presentan los resultados de la aplicación de determinados métodos estadísticos y funciones SIG sobre los datos conocidos del poblamiento del ager Tarraconensis, es decir, del territorio de la colonia de Tarraco. El estudio está centrado en un periodo cronológico que se extiende desde época ibérica al siglo III d.C., dos momentos en los que se producen sendos cambios en la estructura de la población que ocupa el llamado Camp de Tarragona. Los métodos aplicados nos han permitido modelizar y explicar la estructuración y dinámica del poblamiento. También aportamos nuevos datos e ideas sobre el momento en el cual se produce la llegada de colonos itálicos, cómo se distribuyen en el territorio y cual habría podido ser el estatuto jurídico de la ciudad de Tarraco en el fi nal del siglo II a.C. Por otro lado presentamos modelos explicativos de los periodos de estabilidad en el medio rural durante las dinastías julio-claudia y fl avia. Finalmente se analizan y explican aquellos datos que nos muestran cómo dicha estabilidad se quiebra en el siglo II d.C., alterándose por completo la articulación del poblamiento en el territorio en el III d.C. SUMMARYThis paper presents the results of the application of certain statistical methods and GIS functions on the known data of the ager Tarraconensis settlement, located in the territory of the Tarraco colony. The study focuses on a chronological period covering the Iberian period to the 3 rd century AD. The methods used have allowed us to model and explain the structure and dynamics of the settlement. We also provide new data and ideas about the arrival of fi rst italic settlers, how they are distributed throught the territory and what the legal status of the city of Tarraco may have been at the end of the 2 th century BC. Additionally, we present explanatory models of the periods of stability in the countryside during the julio-claudian and fl avian dynasties.Finally, we analyze and explain data that shows how this stability was broken in the 2 th century AD, reversing the articulation of the settlement in the territory in the 3 rd century AD.
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