Medieval and post-medieval earthquakes in Europe
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Durham University, Department of Archaeology
Dr Paolo Forlin
Professor Chris Gerrard
A research project of the Department of Archaeology:
“Seismic catalogues of historic events play a significant role in hazard mitigation across the European Union. Based mainly on documentary surveys or driven from an earth-science perspective, the archaeological verification of seismic activity remains under-researched. The aim of ArMedEa (April 2014 – March 2016) was to develop the analysis of the physical impacts of earthquakes, tsunamis and seismically-induced landslide during the later Middle Ages (here 1000-1550 AD). Our work is at a European scale and adopts a specifically archaeological approach to collate and integrate information from a wide range of sources including standing buildings, buried stratigraphical sequences and palaeoenvironmental data. We worked on projects in the Azores, southern Spain, Italy and Cyprus. We offered a preliminary presentation of our research activities in a paper published in 2015 (ArMedEa project: archaeology of medieval earthquakes in Europe (1000-1550 AD). First research activities, 6th International Inqua Meeting on Paleoseismology, Active Tectonics and Archaeoseismology, 19-24 April 2015, Pescina, Fucino Basin, Italy, pp. 166-169). This research was supported by a Marie Curie Intra European Fellowship within the 7th European Community Framework Programme. You can find more about the results of the ArMedEa project here: www.armedea.wordpress.com but please contact us if you would like to know more. The research papers developed out of this project are referenced on the ArMedEa blog and we are currently editing a monograph for the Society for Medieval Archaeology which touches upon many of these themes. This will be published in 2019. We cover techniques of recording of seismically-affected sites in a 2018 paper (Assessing earthquake effects on archaeological sites using photogrammetry and 3D model analysis, Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage) (…)”
https://www.dur.ac.uk/archaeology/research/projects/all/?mode=project&id=742