In Maremma: storia del sito e archeologia dei paesaggi

This paper uses the regional context of the Maremma near Orbetello (Grosseto) as a case study to try to show the importance of recent events for the purposes of evaluating archaeological documents. The growth of investigation protocols, digital technologies, diagnostic applications, in the last thirty years has allowed important advances in our ability to evaluate the archaeological potential of many areas. All this, however, must not make us forget the importance of recent histories: agricultural transformations, changes in land use, economic and social trends. In this sense, it might be appropriate to think of the creation of networks based on local landscape observatories useful for analyzing contemporary transformations that are predictably harmful to the conservation of archaeological remains.