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.

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Stefano Campana has been working at the University of Siena, Italy, for 15 years. He is one of Italy's most active and inventive archaeologists, specialising in landscape archaeology, remote sensing, and archaeological methodology for purposes of research, recording, and conservation. His work is focused on understanding past landscapes from prehistory to the present. The principal context of his work is Tuscany but he has also participated in and led research work in the UK, Spain, Turkey, Palestine, Iraq, and Asia. Since 2006, he has been a faculty member in the Department of History and Cultural Heritage of the University of Siena, where he has also engaged in teaching and research as Senior Lecturer in Ancient Topography. Dr. Campana has contributed at national and international level to develop a methodology for the holistic study of archaeological landscapes and has introduced new approaches to Mediterranean archaeology, in particular aerial survey and obliquephotography, mobile GIS standards, large-scale continuous geophysics, lidar and a new UAV-based pipeline for 4D documentation of archaeological excavation and historical building. His activity has had major impact in commercial archaeology due to the implementation of innovative archaeological impact assessment methodology on the Brescia, Bergamo, and Milan motorways. He has been very active internationally and has published a number of books and journal articles and has participated in conference proceedings in archaeology. He has been a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA) since 2011 and a member of the General Management Board of HIST, the Governing Board of the International Centre on Space Technologies for Natural and Cultural Heritage (UNESCO), and the Chinese Academy of Sciences since 2012. Dr Campana has also been a visiting scholar at Ecole Normale Superieure (Paris, 2016), the Institute of Archaeology of Erbil (Iraq, 2017), and the University of Cambridge (UK, 2016). At the latter, he initiated a new project entitled "Emptyscapes", aimed at stimulating change in the way archaeologists in the Mediterranean world study the archaeology of landscapes, moving from a site-based approach to a true landscape-scale perspective. Dr. Campana currently leads a research team at the Laboratory of Landscape Archaeology and Remote Sensing at the University of Siena, Italy.

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Preface.- Introduction.- 1. Landscape Archaeology in the Mediterranean World.- 2. 'Archaeological Continuum'.- 3. Applying and Integrating New Research Strategies and Methodologies.- 4. Mapping, Integrating and Interpreting Archaeological Landscapes.- 5. Populating Landscapes.- 6. Conclusion.