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From the Aerial Archaeology Research Group 2025 Annual Meeting
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SESSION 5: AERIAL ARCHAEOLOGY FROM EAST TO WEST
Detecting Roman surveying of municipal territories on the northern Adriatic islands, Croatia, from ALS-based Digital Terrain Models by Michael Doneus & Nives Doneus

Mediterranean dry stone wall landscapes are highly complex aggregations of events and processes. As presented at the AARG Annual Meeting in 2023, such landscapes can be adequately addressed through the use of ALS data and a spatio-temporal approach within the framework of GIS and a Harris matrix. This research has revealed a wealth of information about a complex sequence of human activities, including dry stone wall remains of a presumed Roman land division on the island of Cres.
This year's presentation will focus on research carried out over the past two years. It will show that Roman surveying remains are preserved beneath modern and medieval agro-pastoral structures. An absolute chronology was obtained using the OSL profiling and dating method (OSL-PD), which gave a date range of 200 ± 100 AD for the island of Cres. These dates have been further confirmed by the interpretation results of the state ALS survey data from other islands in the Kvarner Bay. As a consequence, this study provides the first clear evidence for Roman surveying of municipal land on the Croatian islands.

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