Tutti a spasso: dal Crati al Po passando per il Tevere, cinquant'anni di camminate per campi

The Way We Walk: from Crati to Po passing through the Tiber, fifty years of walks through fields - After WW II, land reforms implied the beginning of a dramatic and fast change in the Italian farmland. This occurrence gave rise to systematic survey projects, among which the most significant appears to be the South Etruria Survey of Ward Perkins. This project has been the model for a huge number of subsequent survey, carried out mainly by foreign institutes with great availability of resources. Other significant researches have been carried out by Italian individual archaeologists or groups of freelance researchers with great familiarity with the specific territories and archaeological questions. These two traditions characterized the entire progress of the pre-protohistoric Italian landscape archaeology. It doesn't seem correct to identify the availability of resources as the only reason for the occurring of differences, which is instead to be found in three parallel levels: 1) the methodological choices, whether depending or not on the object of study ; 2) the object of research, i.e. specific situations or entire territorial districts; 3) the interpretive categories of data.