Geoarchaeological practice applied to archaeological predictive modelling: methodologies and results from Mappa Project

Late Holocene deposits stored beneath the modern deltaic-alluvial plains are excellent sedimentary archives to explore in detail the succession of landscapes developed, since the Proto-historic period (ca. 3000 yr BC), under the mutual in-teraction of natural and anthropogenic forcing factors. The recent coring campaign performed in the Pisa plain, in the context of “MAPPA project”, has represented a great oppor-tunity to highlight the history of human-environment rela-tionships in a long-settled city area