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Michael Teichmann
Ph.D. Candidate, Univerity of Kiel, Germany
DIA Fellow Spring 2011

Michael studied Classical Archaeology at the University of Vienna (Austria) and as an Erasmus exchange student at the „La Sapienza“ University at Rome (Italy). After graduating at the University of Vienna, he attended a MA course on Landscape Archaeology, GIS and Virtual Environments at the University of Birmingham (UK). Since 2008 he is a PhD student within the interdisciplinary Graduate School “Human Development in Landscapes” at the University of Kiel (Germany).

DIA Project

Landscape Archaeology in Central Italy

My ongoing PhD research deals with Landscape Archaeology in central Italy in the Roman Republican and Imperial period. A main aim is the analysis of settlement patterns on a regional scale in the wide coastal plain reaching from Ostia and Rome to Terracina, delimited by the Alban Hills, the Lepini and Ausoni Mountains to the east.  Published and archived site data are collected in a Geographical Information System and site location analysis is conducted to identify environmental and cultural preference factors, which were relevant for the choice of settlement sites. Diachronic changes in these parameters are analyzed and regarded in the regional and supra-regional historical context. Another aspect of the research deals with the human impact on the surrounding landscape comprising some geo-archaeological survey work.

The study area is of particular historical importance as it was situated in the heartland of Roman Italy. It reaches from suburban areas of the former metropolis to marginal areas, comprising several environmental zones, which would have invited a differentiated landuse.