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A Historical Analysis of Abandoned Villages in Medieval Sardinia: A Computer Aided Approach for a Sources-Linked Temporal and Spatial GIS Visualization. A Case Study on Sarrabus, Colostrai and Quirra

Version 1 : Received: 25 September 2022 / Approved: 27 September 2022 / Online: 27 September 2022 (03:27:50 CEST)

How to cite: Serreli, G.; Serra, L. A Historical Analysis of Abandoned Villages in Medieval Sardinia: A Computer Aided Approach for a Sources-Linked Temporal and Spatial GIS Visualization. A Case Study on Sarrabus, Colostrai and Quirra. Preprints 2022, 2022090407. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202209.0407.v1 Serreli, G.; Serra, L. A Historical Analysis of Abandoned Villages in Medieval Sardinia: A Computer Aided Approach for a Sources-Linked Temporal and Spatial GIS Visualization. A Case Study on Sarrabus, Colostrai and Quirra. Preprints 2022, 2022090407. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202209.0407.v1

Abstract

A number of research projects and a rich literature have dealt with the theme of abandoned medieval villages in Sardinia since the end of the 60s of the last century. Some more or less precise catalogues and reviews of villages in limited territories have been published. Only recently, however, this subject is being addressed in an interdisciplinary manner, combining traditional historical research with the results of archaeological surveys and excavation campaigns, geo-archaeology, toponymy, paleoclimatology. This allows us to have a picture of the landscape and human settlement evolution with its historical changes, conditioned not only by institutional superstructures but also by human and natural traumatic events. Particular attention will be given to the sudden changes that occurred between the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. To carry out this survey, it is possible to use some very powerful IT tools which, through the aggregation, organization, correlation and management of information, allow the geo-localization of abandoned villages as proven by the documentary evidence. Thus, on this documentation, existing and acquired in the future, is founded the construction of the related information system. The most easy and suitable tools for this purpose are the CMSs (Content Management Systems) which, in association with GIS (Geographic Information Systems) engines, allow spatial and contextual analysis of the settlements, as they were inserted in their territory. This type of tools aggregates different peculiarities of the object of study, supporting a multidisciplinary reading on the argument. The computerized tools, integrated as a system, offer the possibility to implement it, feeding it and correcting it continuously, basing on new acquisitions. In this study, we will examine a historical areal, for which we have a sufficient number of sources available: Sarrabus, Colostrai and Quirra, adding to the geographical visual information, the temporal visual evolution.

Keywords

Settlement Desertion; GIS; CMS; Digital Humanities

Subject

Arts and Humanities, History

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