This book addresses the true 'landscape' perspective approach that archaeologists in Italy and
in many parts of the Mediterranean use to study the archaeology of landscapes marking a
departure from the traditional site-based approach. The aim of the book is to promote the
broader application of new paradigms for landscape analysis combining traditional approaches
with multidisciplinary studies as well as comparatively new techniques such as large-scale
geophysical surveying airborne laser scanning and geo-environmental studies. This approach has
yielded tangible and striking results in central Italy clearly demonstrating that identifying
the 'archaeological continuum' is a realistic aim even under the specific environmental and
archaeological conditions of the Mediterranean world.
