Centuriations romaines dans la plaine alluviale du Brenta (Vénétie)

International audienceIn the second half of the 19th and (more specifically) in the first half of the 20th century, the materiality of centuriations in the plain of Venice was measured using vertical photography and medium-scale topographic mapping. The discourse surrounding this issue was thus shaped by a geohistorical perspective that incorporated the broader context of romanization and the agrarian question in Roman Antiquity. Recent findings in archaeogeography; geoarchaeology and preventive archaeology in France and Italy suggest that the nature of this key aspect of agrarian history needs to be re-examined. In examining the Brenta alluvial plain, the issue is not to seek fo an original form but to understand the social and environmental factors contributing to the construction of centuriated landscapes