Technical report: UAV survey of the Iron age archaeological sites of Monte Pitino and Monte Franco (MC)

In September 2018, thanks to Scientific Cooperation with the GENT UNIVERSITY - FACULTY OF ART AND PHILOSOPHY, the CNR ITABC started to collaborate at the Potenza Valley Survey Project (PVS), an important research directed by the Prof. Frank Vermeulen and aimed at measuring the evolution of social complexity during Antiquity in this central part of Italy. The fieldwork operations in the valley of the river Potenza include systematic archaeological field walking, active aerial photography, artefact studies, re-study of excavated evidence, detailed geomorphologic field mapping, geophysical surveys and topographic analysis. Between the 10th and the 11th of September the ITABC team, given his experience on aerial photogrammetry, participated at the survey activities of two important Iron age central sites in the Middle Potenza valley, near San Severino Marche and Treia: Monte Pitino and Monte Franco.