Reconstructing ancient landscape

How and where did man use to live in antiquity? What relationship did he have with his neighbours? How did he use, organize or modify his landscape? These are some of the questions that landscape reconstruction tries to answer. But is it possible to reconstruct ancient landscape in a reliable way? Are there methods, tools, or other indications applicable to this activity? Although it's impossible to know what real landscape was like in the past, nevertheless its reconstruction remains a fundamental process, that cannot be relegated to a "dissemination phase". Vice-versa it regards the entire archaeological process, from data acquisition to interpretation, to knowledge acquisition and dissemination. Communication is a part of it. And archaeology isn't the only discipline involved. Recently, interest in environmental aspects has also reached those fields of archaeology traditionally more focused on "material culture". We are slowly moving towards an archaeology of everyday life, where research, adopting a more ecological perspective, is finally dealing with aspects until now considered superfluous or unimportant.