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THE ENVIRONMENTAL RISK AS A FACTOR CONDITIONING THE DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN COMMUNITIES IN HISTORIC TIMES
13 pages
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Cinti Alessio
E-Print (Copyright) Alessio Cinti – Accepted for publication 07/02/2010
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THE ENVIRONMENTAL RISK AS A FACTOR CONDITIONING THE
DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN COMMUNITIES IN HISTORIC TIMES
Alessio CINTI¹, Luigi COPPOLA², Pierfrancesco RESCIO³...
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E-Print (Copyright) Alessio Cinti – Accepted for publication 07/02/2010
1
THE ENVIRONMENTAL RISK AS A FACTOR CONDITIONING THE
DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN COMMUNITIES IN HISTORIC TIMES
Alessio CINTI¹, Luigi COPPOLA², Pierfrancesco RESCIO³
¹Geoarchaeologist – Cultural Resources Manager
2
Dipartimento di Scienze Geologiche, Università degli Studi della Basilicata, Potenza, Italy
³ Former Lecturer at Istituto Universitario Suor Orsola Benincasa, Napoli, Italy
E-mail: a.
cinti@archeoalex.
tk.
, luigi.
coppola@unibas.
it, p.
rescio@virgilio.
it
Abstract
In recent decades, archaeological investigation has increasingly turned its attention to the
study of so-called "cultural landscapes", thus satisfying the need to consider the historical and
archaeological remains and monumental contexts in relation to the natural environment and its
changes that have occurred over the centuries.
This geoarchaeological approach has the double merit
both of accounting for events occurred in the past, and of defining
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archaeological,
area,
century,
characteristics,
conditions,
environmental,
fact,
geological,
historical,
human,
instability,
italy,
natural,
potenza,
slope,
slopes,
soil
