The castle network in the italian province of Viterbo (X-XV century).
First results of a spatial-statistical analysis
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https://doi.org/10.17561/aytm.v15i0.1495Keywords:
Settlement pattern, incastellamento, quiantitative archaeology, spatial analysis, AltolazioAbstract
The creation of extensive georeferenced databases has revealed itself, over the past 20 years, as an effective strategic choice to approach the problems related to the com prehension of late-medieval settlement dynamics, with particular reference to the incastellamento. We present here the first results of the application of this ap proach to the northern area of Lazio. A brief explanation of the problems of the territorial context and the chronological limits imposed to the research is offered, followed by a first formal picture of the quantitative and spatial characteristics of the network and some comparisons with neighbouring territories. The result is an articulated settlement network, originated by a statistical non linear foundation/ fortification process and by a count between incastellamento and decastellamento with specific characteristics. Nevertheless, a wider regional comparison prefigures the existence of a meaningful dispersed fortified settlement system, ex tended from Southern Tuscany to the Altolazio.
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