Geoarchaeology Cinigiano 2010, Report 16th of July 2010 Report on the geoarchaeological investigations in the greater area around the excavations of Case Nuove, San Martino and Pievina (Cinigiano, GR, Italy) 2010 Antonia Arnoldus-Huyzendveld, geoarchaeologist Digiter S.r.l., Italy, email
[email protected] Archaeological team leaders: Kim Bowes, Cam Grey, Emanuele Vaccaro, Mariaelena Ghisleni. Contents: 1) Geological framework of the area 2) Land Units map 3) Geo-context of the single archaeological sites 4) The origin of the building stones (draft version) 5) On rivers, valleys and crests. ----------------------- The geoarchaeological consultancy of 2010 was a follow up of the work done in 2009 (see report of the 7th of August 2009). In cooperation with the archaeologists responsible for the project, it was decided to extend the working area as far as to encompass the site catchment of Pievina as proposed in 2009, as well as a reasonably large area around the sites of San Martino and Case Nuove (figure 1). 1 Geoarchaeology Cinigiano 2010, Report The geoarchaeological investigation has aimed at the identification of the major geo- resources of the areas around Pievina, Case Nuove and San Martino. A Land Units map in scale 1:25.000 of the land surrounding the sites was prepared, cover- ing a total surface of about 14.500 hectares, i.e. measuring ca. 12 x 12 km. This area in- cludes the map prepared in 2009 covering a surface of ca. 4.600 hectares. Thus ca. 10.000 hectares had to be surveyed ex novo. To that aim, in the first half of June 2010 a stereo- scopic aerial photograph1 interpretation was executed.