The TraTTo project: paths and pastures from prehistory to modern times in Southern Tuscany: research approaches and activities

The paper presents the interdisciplinary approach developed for the TraTTo project (acronym of Transhumance and Territory in Toscana) related to the study of transhumance’s paths and pastures in Southern Tuscany in a long-term perspective, from prehistory to modern times. The project is carried on by a research group of the Department of History and Cultural Heritage of the University of Siena in collaboration with the École Française of Rome. The TraTTo project is dedicated to analysing features of Tuscan transhumance through a landscape archaeology perspective and using a strong GIS structure for analyses and data-gathering based on historical, archaeological and cartographic sources. In this paper we present some results of the activities, including field survey and archive researches