The landscape of the Middle Tiber Valley in Central Italy was an important crossroads for millennia thanks to the network of transhumance routes, Roman roads, and of course, the Tiber River. Despite this fact, our understanding of the exact routes and relationship with the surrounding landscape is limited. This paper seeks to fill this gap in our knowledge by reconstructing the ancient road network of the via Amerina through a combination of archaeological data with Least Cost Path analysis. Furthermore, this paper illustrates the efficacy of context-sensitive applications of GIS tools to reconstruct ancient transportation networks. Ultimately, this study concludes that experimentation with least cost path analysis in well-studied environments offers considerable insight into the routes and local impact of Roman roads on Central Italian communities.

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注意差距：Via Amerina 和中台伯河谷


意大利中部的中台伯河谷景观是数千年来的重要十字路口，这要归功于移牧路线网络、罗马道路，当然还有台伯河。尽管如此，我们对确切路线以及与周围景观的关系的理解是有限的。本文试图通过将考古数据与最低成本路径分析相结合来重建 via Amerina 的古老道路网络，从而填补我们知识中的这一空白。此外，本文还说明了 GIS 工具的上下文敏感应用在重建古代交通网络方面的功效。最终，本研究得出结论，在经过充分研究的环境中进行最低成本路径分析的实验为罗马道路的路线和当地对意大利中部社区的影响提供了相当大的见解。