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Sam
Turner
Newcastle University
School of History, Classics and Archaeology
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU
UK
This research took steps towards unlocking the history of Mediterranean landscapes by the application of proven methodologies pioneered in British landscape studies. We mapped and analysed the historic landscape of terraces, fields, lanes and rural settlements that are typical of the eastern Mediterranean, and attempted to understand them in their historical contexts.
The project studied the historic landscape of the Aegean through the analysis of two rural areas. Geographical Information Systems (GIS) provided a tool for combining and comparing diverse datasets such as orthorectified aerial photographs, satellite data and digital mapping. In particular, we used Historic Landscape Characterisation to provide a framework for integrated diachronic landscape histories incorporating data from relevant historical and archaeological sources at a range of scales.
Turner, S. and J. Crow, 2010. 'Unlocking historic landscapes in the eastern Mediterranean: two pilot studies using historic landscape characterisation', Antiquity 84 (323), 216-229.
Crow, J. and S. Turner, 2009. 'Silivri and the Thracian hinterland of Istanbul: an historic landscape', Anatolian Studies 59, 167-181.
and the project's own website