Infrastrutture, gestione delle acque, insediamenti, paesaggi agrari e funerari nell'ager rusellanus nella longue durée: verso l’archeologica stratigrafica dei paesaggi

This paper is reporting the preliminary results of a research programme, Emptyscapes, designed to stimulate changes in the traditional ways in which researchers study the archaeology of landscapes – moving from an essentially  site  based approach to a more comprehensive landscape-scale perspective. After more than a decade of integrated survey and three years of test excavation we have demonstrated that in some circumstances it is possible to apply this combination of  traditional ,  new  and complementary strategies successfully, and in doing so to seek answers to entirely new archaeological questions opening up unprecedent historical scenarios.