<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Clavel-Leveque M.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Vassilopoulos, A.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Evelpidou, N.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Chartidou, K.</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Geoarchaeology and soft computing applications in Roman landscapes research.</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">International Journal of Landscape Archaeology</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2006</style></year></dates><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">99-107</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;Principal objective of the research was studying Roman landscapes with the&lt;br&gt;combinatory analysis of environmental, geomorphological data and with soft&lt;br&gt;computing applications such as GIS and algorithms, designed specifically for&lt;br&gt;archaeological purposes. The identification and the modeling of the possible&lt;br&gt;Roman cadastral systems via traditional methodological approaches comprised a&lt;br&gt;vital stimulus for the technological oriented approaches. Geomorphological&lt;br&gt;analysis of the landscape along with the implementation of the algorithm&lt;br&gt;strengthens the reliability of the output models and provides significant&lt;br&gt;information for the palaeoenvironment. Modelling the spatial organisation of the&lt;br&gt;Roman landscape in the area of Beziers (south France) pre-supposes a&lt;br&gt;combinatory study of the physicogeographical, the geomorphological, the&lt;br&gt;geological and the archaeological characteristics of the area. Signifying the land&lt;br&gt;boundaries and the road network of the area during Roman period indicates a&lt;br&gt;straight forward human intervention on the landscape. Though, studying modern&lt;br&gt;landscape’s environmental settings may hinder conclusions about earlier periods&lt;br&gt;of use of the area, unless environmental data, to be added in the model, is&lt;br&gt;evaluated in advance. Considering that the data collected and mapped nowadays&lt;br&gt;may not be found in situ, emphasis is placed in the potential displacement of the&lt;br&gt;archaeological data to be input in the Roman cadastral models. In conjunction&lt;br&gt;with the geomorphological analysis of the data, an erosion model, based on&lt;br&gt;Fractals philosophy, has been also developed assessing the consistency of data&lt;br&gt;used to derive possible models of Roman cadastres.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract></record></records></xml>