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• Donald R.Keller BAR?
cal Survey in the and David W.Hupp
AN ARCHAEOLOG.ICAL SURVEY OF THE AGRO PONTINO (PROV" OF LATINA) Ao " 110 and H, K&mermans
VB.I! Gtffen Institute for Pre·~· and Protohis an extensive
Pontino, Preliminaries have been two June 1980, and the collection of
ical studies in order to obtain is of this material is in
will
onwards Taschini
the area and a constant inhabitation Bietti, 1969 Blanc, 1935
et a1, n" cL) , • about 60 km 15 km the north and east it is surrounded
), in the southern is Monte
For the rest, the Pontino itself
An
,
became clear that the area a comple:x: of four, weLl 0 •• ,
soil Time can hm18 been the
by eolian by their only sDi1 forming factor responsible for their appearance Altogether the Agro PontinD is well suited for a diachronic
i t has well def:ined natural boundaries
research project: its history; the
thods
as well is; the area the Middle Palaeolithic.
sets of decisions for a
survey. On the one needs to
s fraction and its distribution over the area. level the sizes and kinds of units to be surveyed need t(::.ntiOlL On the lowest level consideration is due for the way in which handled f.n the survey, Of course dec:lsions on eac.h of these levels are not from one another O:nd
will follow from of the
be determined for a by the area as well, For the
cheme will have to be emaLi.c
our work we concentrated on the
chose fields ted with peppers, crops are ted in rows the soil
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3.
The
the distribution and
shallow plough--remains are visible. A field ematic transects or completely, the former ease between 20 and 50%.
carried out on a number of occasions. A
of these seems to show that
between the s collections.
t:he ecological situations and of social systems, by means geomorphological studies.
ical evidence from West Central document sites through t:~volutions in land use tion.
means of additional surveys and
Lf: necessary and possible excavation.
Pontino. Naturali 78, n.s. 20: 7~39. Blanc A.. 1939 Un del Fossellone al 27 ) 215-·-221.
Blanc Excurs.ion au Monte Circe', IVe
Roma.
du sol MOllS de la
Gnat ermuia 19: 71--92.
Sc>vink, .J .A. A. and
a,c.,
n.d. The sOlls[forthcoming]
s
of southern 1.az10 and acent
J. 11., n.d Central I
Westerhoff, W.E., Stierman, Aq and Kamermans, of marine t:erraces near 1.atina (Agro Pontino,
la plaine Pontine
Kamermans, H., 1981, Report: on a of the Pontino (Province
HE TIRRE
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Pontino, Prov. of Latina. I and a map of the
