Il cielo sopra Mariana. Aviatori e archeologi alla scoperta di una colonia romana in Corsica

After some early field research carried out in the 1930’s and again in the 1950’s and 1960’s, archaeological and topographical research has been restarted at Mariana, a Late Republican colony funded by the eponymous C. Marius, at the mouth of the river Golo, along the Tyrrhenian cost of Corsica, in 2000, in the framework of the Project Collectif de Recherche (PCR) “Mariana et la vallée du Golo de l’Age du Fer à la fin du Moyen Age”. While other teams have been working on the reconstruction of the palaeo-environmental conditions and on the transformations of the urban settlement between Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, since 2004 a joined team of the universities of Cassino and Ghent has been investigating the settlement patterns of the Roman town, with special attention to its spatial organization. In this context, a specific study of historical and active aerial imagery has been carried out. The photo interpretation has been paralleled with the exceptional results from the geophysical survey, and integrated with the archive research and historical cartography GIS processing.