Field survey methodology in regional and artefactual scale. The Ager Segisamonensis Survey Project, Odra-Pisuerga region (Burgos)

Abstract

This paper presents the Ager Segisamonensis Survey Project, an archaeological survey which focus to the development of methodologies to cope with off-site artefact’s scatters in relationships with both pre-roman and roman settlements. A debate is proposed against transactional field-dependant surveys and therefore we propose a new analytical system based in an artificial orthogonal grid for both summarizing, interpret and display the complex artefact variability. In addition we present a reflection about the methodological shift from off-site survey and site discovery which need an adapted recording methodology. The proposed methodology integrates GIS and GPS tools in order to analyse the spatiality of datasets by calculations as Percent Volume Contour and Nearest Neighbour Analysis.