DIGITAL DOCUMENTATION FOR ARCHAEOLOGY. CASE STUDIES ON ETRUSCAN AND ROMAN HERITAGE

Innovative tools which are constantly being developed make it possible for the researcher to adopt an ntegrative approach favorable to everyone involved in the whole process of documentation. Close collaboration of architects and archaeologists made it possible to understand the key elements of archaeological heritage based on considerations extracted from historical analysis and to have at disposal a large quantity of information gathcrcd by taking advantage of thc potentialities of technologically advances tools. The significance of constructing digital models in the domain of archaeology is already a well-established idea and only rcinforccs thc theoretical bases of survey and rcprcscntation. Thc objective is to present thc way in which digital technologies allow us to documcnt, preserve, evaluate and popularize cultural hcritagc by structuring out an "opcn" systcm of cognition and thcrcforc always lending itself to implementation