ARCHEOLOGIA DEI PAESAGGI ADRIATICI

Initial reflections on the geomorphological characteristics of coastal environments and the literary memories associated with these places are followed by the session devoted to the archaeology of Adriatic landscapes. Archaeology is a fundamental method of analyzing landscapes that are, as is well known, the result of the interaction between nature and culture: the very materiality of the signs and remains left by man on the ground makes these places immediately recognizable as containers of past histories and memories. Due to human intervention that modifies the land, stories and memories take on substance and a continuous and complex process is activated in which places are charged with new and different meanings and the landscape becomes ‘historical’. This is a complex system that is constantly evolving, especially in the case of coastal landscapes, which are ceaselessly in the process of becoming not only because of human activities, but especially because of the cyclical action of water, which continually transforms their forms and appearance.