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Urbanism in Ancient Peninsular Italy: developing a methodology for a database analysis of higher order settlements (350 BCE to 300 CE)

Jamie Sewell and Robert Witcher

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Context of the Project in Relation to Earlier Work
3. Specific Research Questions
- A summary of the history and archaeology of urbanism in Italy: 350-30 BCE
4. Methodology

4.1 Geographical and temporal parameters of the study
4.2 Defining the object of study
4.3 The evidential basis
4.4 Defining settlement sizes
4.5 Database design
4.6 Metadata: data categories
4.7 Metadata: categories of confidence
4.8 Creating a chronological structure
4.9 Database format