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Surveying the territory of Firmum Picenum south of Ancona

Italy has a rich tradition of landscape archaeology. Both Italian and foreign institutions have contributed to a rich body of data on settlement from prehistory down to the mediaeval period. The Forma Italiae series and work by Italian scholars such as L. Quilici and S. Quilici Gigli systematically documented archaeological remains while studying them in the light of historical and related sources.1 Starting in the 1950s, but particularly from the 1970s onwards, various foreign groups have added to this by introducing more intensive approaches to landscape studies within a processual tradition.2 While regional data-sets are thus continuously being generated, the different research traditions are increasingly finding common ground in terms of the methodologies being used, but also, for example, in the increasing attention being paid to the study of ceramic artefacts. As a result, new avenues are opening up in terms of supra-regional analysis of historical processes ranging from demographic and economic developments to processes of cultural change.3