DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14534157
title: PalaeoDEMs of the hinterland of Ravenna

description: PalaeoDEMs, namely digital elevation models of historical topography, of the hinterland of Ravenna (Italy), for four chronological periods: 

Bronze Age (~1000 BCE), Roman period (~100 CE), Early Middle Ages (~1200 CE), and Late Middle Ages (~1400 CE).

This dataset includes both original data, palaeoDEMs, data for thier enhancement, enhanced palaeoDEM+, and additional geoarchaeological data for model verification:



Ravenna_hinterland_PalaeoDEM_data.gpkg = vector point file containing filtered geoarchaeological data from Geoarchaeological dataset for the hinterland of Ravenna according to four chronological periods

Ravenna_hinterland_PalaeoDEM_Bronze.tif = raster file of palaeoDEM for the Bronze Age

Ravenna_hinterland_PalaeoDEM_Roman.tif = raster file of palaeoDEM for the Roman period

Ravenna_hinterland_PalaeoDEM_Early.tif = raster file of palaeoDEM for the Early Middle Ages

Ravenna_hinterland_PalaeoDEM_Late.tif = raster file of palaeoDEM for the Late Middle Ages

Ravenna_hinterland_PalaeoDEM_extrafiles.zip = archive folder contening raster files of palaeoDEM uncertainty (SD) of four chronological periods, text files with reports of data analysis and interpolation, and related metadata

Ravenna_hinterland_PalaeoDEM_MSRM.zip = archive folder contening raster files of palaeoDEMs processed with the MSRM algorithm [1], text file with GGE [2] scripts, and related metadata

Ravenna_hinterland_PalaeoDEM_PalaeoLandforms.gpkg = vector point file containing reconstructed fluvial and coastal landforms for four chronological periods

Ravenna_hinterland_PalaeoDEM_PalaeoPoints.gpkg = vector point file containing geoarchaeological data and simulated points inside and outside landforms according to four chronological periods

Ravenna_hinterland_PalaeoDEM+_Bronze.tif = raster file of palaeoDEM+ for the Bronze Age

Ravenna_hinterland_PalaeoDEM+_Roman.tif = raster file of palaeoDEM+ for the Roman period

Ravenna_hinterland_PalaeoDEM+_Early.tif = raster file of palaeoDEM+ for the Early Middle Ages

Ravenna_hinterland_PalaeoDEM+_Late.tif = raster file of palaeoDEM+ for the Late Middle Ages

Ravenna_hinterland_PalaeoDEM+_extrafiles.zip = archive folder contening raster files of palaeoDEM+ uncertainty (SD) of four chronological periods, text files with reports of data analysis and interpolation, and related metadata

Ravenna_hinterland_PalaeoDEM_verification_data.gpkg = vector point file containing additional geoarchaeological data, also included in Geoarchaeological dataset for the hinterland of Ravenna (starting from version v2), for the evaluation of PalaeoDEM and PalaeoDEM+ for each chronological period


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[1] Orengo, H. A., and Petrie, C. A. (2018) Multi-scale relief model (MSRM): a new algorithm for the visualization of subtle topographic change of variable size in digital elevation models. Earth Surf. Process. Landforms, 43: 1361–1369. doi: 10.1002/esp.4317.

[2] Gorelick, N., Hancher, M., Dixon, M., Ilyushchenko, S., Thau, D., & Moore, R. (2017). Google Earth Engine: Planetary-scale geospatial analysis for everyone. Remote Sensing of Environment. doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2017.06.031.
description: "Geoarchaeology and palaeoDEMs modelling to assess the archaeological potential of Ravenna and its hinterland" is a multidisciplinary and diachronic PhD project whose aim was to reconstruct the physical evolution of the landscape around Ravenna (Italy) from the Bronze Age until today and how this influenced human occupation in the area. The PhD project was carried out by Michele Abballe at Ghent University/University of Verona, under the supervision of Frank Vermeulen (Ghent University), and the co-supervision of Fabio Saggioro (University of Verona), Devi Taelman (Ghent University) and Jeroen Verhegge (Ghent University). The PhD project was funded by the Bijzonder Onderzoeksfonds UGent (BOF) under Grant number BOF.FJD.2017.0002.01 and supported by three Grants for long stays abroad by the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) under Grant numbers V421419N, V430720N, and V409421N. This is one of the datasets produced within Michele Abballe's PhD project "Geoarchaeology and palaeoDEMs modelling to assess the archaeological potential of Ravenna and its hinterland".

Additional research for the implementation of this dataset was funded by the European Union, as part of a research fellowship which is supported by ERC grant SSE1K, GA 101044437, DOI 10.3030/101044437. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Council Executive Agency. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.