Settlement's Dynamics in Western Sicily between VIII E IV Sec. B.C. A Geographic Information System to Research
Terms and technologies that would be not comprehensible to the archaeologists of the past are now widely spreading inside landscape archaeology fields, beginning from those sites where the enormous proportion of picked data and the continuous overlap of the layers makes difficult to understand what happened. In this context, the use of the GIS (Geographical Information System) has known a remarkable success, according to the increasing necessity to archive, elaborate and analyze the great quantity of archaeological data coming from surveys, as in the case of Iato and Belice river valleys (Sicily).