On September the 11th 2017, the first multidisciplinary survey in Val di Cornia and Val di Pecora began. For a period of two months, September and October, in collaboration with the Department of Biotechnology, Chemistry and Pharmacy, students of archaeology  coming from all around Italy, will partecipate to the campaign (Fig.1).

The area nearby the site of Vetricella will be investigated in September, and then expanded to other sites, in particular the one of Val di Cornia. By acquiring GPS coordinates and following a grid subdivided into 20 x 20 m squares, soil measurements with a portable XRF  will be taken,with the aim to verify the chemical composition of the soil (Fig.2).

Acquired data will be loaded into a GIS platform and subsequently re-elaborated to produce useful maps in order to interpret the natural and anthropic evolution of the landscape for future reconstructions of its diachronic evolution.