TY  - JOUR
A1  - Vogel, Sebastian
A1  - Maerker, Michael
A1  - Esposito, Domenico
A1  - Seiler, Florian
T1  - The Ancient Rural Settlement Structure in the Hinterland of Pompeii Inferred from Spatial Analysis and Predictive Modeling of Villae Rusticae
JF  - Geoarchaeology : an international journal
N2  - Pompeii, buried by the explosive A. D. 79 eruption of Somma-Vesuvius, is one of the most studied ancient cities in the Roman world. However, until very recently, the rural settlement in its hinterland had been largely ignored by systematic archaeological research. The ancient landscape around Pompeii consisted of a dense network of Roman farms (villae rusticae). They are believed to have played a vital role in ancient rural life and economy and thus represented the interactive rural-urban relationship in the Sarno River plain. The systematic investigation of published work combined with new fieldwork has yielded a data set of 140 villae rusticae in the Sarno River plain. Geographic information system based spatial statistics as well as predictive modeling were applied to gain a more detailed understanding of the ancient rural settlement structure in relation to the underlying paleoenvironmental and socioeconomic conditions. A high-resolution pre-A. D. 79 paleolandscape model of the Sarno River plain was utilized. The aim of this paper is to address theoretical considerations, the methodological implementation, and the archaeological discussion of the analysis of the ancient rural settlements and agriculture around Pompeii. (C) 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.21560
SN  - 0883-6353
SN  - 1520-6548
VL  - 31
SP  - 121
EP  - 139
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
CY  - Hoboken
ER  -