SIBA2000, VOORBEREIDEND LANDSCHAPSONDERZOEK IN DE SIBARITIDE

Samenvatting

This article presents research recently conducted by GIA staff and students near the town of Fran­cavilla Marittima (Sibaritide region, Calabria, Italy), in preparation for a programme of land­scape-archaeological research around the proto­historic settlement and cult site of the Timpone della Motta. The research focused on the eva­luation, by both field and labaratory work, of the archaeological data sets currently available for the area that were compiled in previous surveys by the GIA and in the I960s by Lorenzo Quilici and others. The possibilities for studying highland exploitation were evaluated by following sub­recent transhumance routes and revisiting known sites along these. Experiments with a portable digitalfield registrafion system were conducfed in order to develop appropriate, efficient and accu­rate field methods for such surveys.