Reconstructing archaeological landscape : interpretation and Integration in spatial and real-time open systems

Why reconstructing the past? What does it mean reconstructing archaeological and ancient landscape? What can we really reconstruct? How and which kind of technology can help us in this process? and which technological and epistemological approach, if any, can contribute to gather better results? This chapter will go into these concepts, trying to explain the beginning phase in the reconstruction of an archaeological landscape; available data typologies in the case of different landscapes, such as urban or extra-urban contexts; possible approaches and methodologies, such as VR open source web-based systems, and their pro and contra. Finally some case studies of Roman landscapes interpretation and reconstruction will be analyzed, together with some possible future further developments in the creation of new systems, useful for dynamicshared web-based landscape reconstruction.