From landscape to site: a GIS for the study of the spatial-chronological changes in the Farafra oasis.

This paper illustrates a new method for the recording and management of archaeological and geomorphological data in the fieldwork. It aims to show that using a new methodological approach in data collecting, particularly working with new Object Oriented technologies, can allow for obtaining very powerful results. With reference to the activity of the Italian Archaeological Mission in the Farafra Oasis, the paper will show how collecting, and cross relating, geomorphological and archaeological records in a relational Object Oriented database linked to a GIS, could perform new spatial analyses on different scale, in order to better understand the changes of the landscape and to suggest new evolution patterns