Modeling Roman Rural Landscapes

Starting at the end of 2016, a newly established research project at the Institute of Classical Archeology at the University of Vienna investigates settlement processes and material culture in rural areas of the Roman province of Noricum, using noninvasive surveying methods. The aim is to create a new and widely accessible digital data base for the different forms of rural settlement activity. For this purpose, certain settlements in Upper Austria were chosen as representative research areas: the surrounding areas of Lauriacum / Enns as the economic hinterland of a legion camp, the area around Ovilavis / Wels as a rural area around a civil-urban center, as well as sites in the Vöckla valley as a representative of the remote periphery.