Living In a Fringe Environment (LIFE)

Polimi role:
Coordinator

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Scientific coordinator:
Corinna Rossi

Scope of LIFE is to offer a complete set of archaeological and environmental data to investigate Late Roman settlements along frontier desert areas and to reconstruct the underlying strategy to control the empire’s desert edges. The case study is the archaeological site of Umm al-Dabadib and the chain of Late Roman fortified settlements that punctuate the Kharga Oasis (Egypt’s Western Desert), that in the Fourth Century represented a portion of the southern boundary of the empire. The sites will be studied using a combination of classic and innovative techniques: 3D survey of the architectural remains, archaeological excavation of specific portions of both the built-up areas and the agricultural systems, archaeobotanical analyses, ceramic studies, analyses of satellite images, within the wider frame of an environmental study of the area and a historical analysis of the textual sources.

Program: Horizon 2020

Subprogram: Pillar I - Excellent Science

Call: ERC-2015-COG

Topic: ERC-CoG-2015: ERC Consolidator Grant

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