Archaeological Prospection of Coastal and Submerged Settlement Sites. Re-Evaluation of the Roman Site Complex of Vižula, Croatia

Doneus, Nives; Miholjek, Igor; Džin, Kristina; Doneus, Michael; Dugonjić, Pavle; Schiel, Hannes

doi:10.1553/archaeologia104s235

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“…Vižula has recently been reinterpreted by the integration of prospection and excavation results, revealing that the Roman architecture originates from two villae maritimae and two villae rusticae (Doneus et al. 2020). About 200 m north of Vižula, the next villa (rustica?)…”

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“…Among these was the discovery of the small villa rustica that may point to wine and/or oil processing (object G in Doneus et al. 2020, 270). Beyond that, however, no further indications could be discovered that could indicate agricultural use or production facilities on a large‐scale, despite the fact that Vižula has been studied in more detail than any other Roman site in the Medulin region.…”

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Intensively Cultivated Roman Villae Estates: Case Study of Medulin Bay (Istria, Croatia)

Doneus,

Doneus

2024

Archaeological Prospection

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Our image of the Roman landscape of Istria is characterised by large‐scale centuriation and architectural remains of Roman villae. Detection and mapping of other, less dramatic landscape features require systematic large‐scale prospection, but this faces significant difficulties in the Mediterranean environment. However, the developments in the field of airborne laser scanning offer the possibility to create archaeologically usable digital terrain models under water and under very dense and low maquis vegetation. This paper reports on the use of terrain models created using a green laser and a sophisticated archaeologically driven ground point filtering strategy. Combined with archaeological aerial photo interpretation, this provides the means for landscape mapping and interpretation that has revealed a wealth of archaeological structures hinting at Roman agricultural practices and landscape. Our case study is based on a laser scan of about 24 km2 of land and underwater terrain in Medulin Bay. Processed, visualised and interpreted for archaeological purposes, the data reveal not only features ranging from prehistoric hilltop settlements to modern military installations but also features a complex picture of the Roman land use. Of particular interest is the large number of planting pits, which extend over a total length of 4 km. They were laid on a regular grid of approximately 35 × 35 m, sometimes combined in contiguous parcels. They can be interpreted as remains of orchards or tree nurseries of Roman date, and the paper examines also the question of whether they can be linked to the associated Roman estates. The case study area presented here shows that the potential of remote sensing methods goes far beyond the mere finding of traditional sites but can open up new landscape‐scale perspectives on regions that have been archaeologically little explored.

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Intensively Cultivated Roman Villae Estates: Case Study of Medulin Bay (Istria, Croatia)

Doneus,

Doneus

2024

Archaeological Prospection

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“…The large discrepancy between the use of RVT in archeological vs geoscientific studies indicates the unrecognised potential for alternative visualization of elevation data in geosciences. An even more striking disparity becomes evident when we consider the type of the input elevation datato our knowledge only a few instances of the use of RVT for bathymetric data exist in published literature (Craven et al, 2021) and they are mostly limited to archaeological studies (Doneus et al, 2013;Doneus et al, 2020). This highlights the need and potential for (better) alternative visualizations of bathymetric data in geosciences, especially when we consider that Visualizing features with a currogated/folded morphology (dataset from LC): (A) HS A315_H40_Ve1, (B) ONEG R10_D16.…”

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Not another hillshade: alternatives which improve visualizations of bathymetric data

Novak,

Poglajen,

Vrabec

2023

Front. Mar. Sci.

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Increasing awareness of the importance of effective communication of scientific results and concepts, and the need for more accurate mapping and increased feature visibility led to the development of novel approaches to visualization of high-resolution elevation data. While new approaches have routinely been adopted for land elevation data, this does not seem to be the case for the offshore and submerged terrestrial realms. We test the suitability of algorithms provided by the freely-available and user-friendly Relief Visualization Toolbox (RVT) software package for visualizing bathymetric data. We examine the algorithms optimal for visualizing the general bathymetry of a study area, as well as for highlighting specific morphological shapes that are common on the sea-, lake- and riverbed. We show that these algorithms surpass the more conventional analytical hillshading in providing visualizations of bathymetric data richer in details, and foremost, providing a better overview of the morphological features of the studied areas. We demonstrate that the algorithms are efficient regardless of the source data type, depth range, resolution, geographic, and geological setting. The summary of our results and observations can serve as a reference for future users of RVT for displaying bathymetric data.

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“…2020; Cook Hale, Davis, and Sanger 2023; Doneus et al. 2013, 2020; Wiseman et al. 2021), although most applications have focused on shipwreck sites.…”

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Bathymetric LiDAR and Semi‐Automated Feature Extraction Assist Underwater Archaeological Surveys

Davis,

Cook Hale,

Hale

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Critical data concerning key developments in global human history now lie submerged on continental shelves where investigations confront significant challenges. Whereas underwater excavations and surveys are expensive and weather dependent and require specialized training and equipment, remote sensing methods can improve chances for success offshore. A refinement in one method, a semi‐automated analysis protocol that can help to identify Pleistocene and Holocene era archaeological deposits in bathymetric LiDAR datasets, is presented here. This method employs contour mapping to identify potential archaeological features in shallow water environments in Apalachee Bay, Florida. This method successfully re‐identified multiple previously recorded archaeological sites in the study region and detected at least four previously undocumented archaeological sites. These results suggest that this procedure can expand on methods to identify and record submerged archaeological deposits in sediment‐starved, shallow‐water environments.

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Archaeological Prospection of Coastal and Submerged Settlement Sites. Re-Evaluation of the Roman Site Complex of Vižula, Croatia

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Intensively Cultivated Roman Villae Estates: Case Study of Medulin Bay (Istria, Croatia)

Intensively Cultivated Roman Villae Estates: Case Study of Medulin Bay (Istria, Croatia)

Not another hillshade: alternatives which improve visualizations of bathymetric data

Bathymetric LiDAR and Semi‐Automated Feature Extraction Assist Underwater Archaeological Surveys

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