Non-invasive procedures for the evaluation of pre-Roman burial sites: new case studies from the Mid-Adriatic area

The paper focuses on several sites in the northern Marche region identified by the presence of circular traces detected by remote sensing and tentatively interpreted as funerary monuments of the pre-Roman period. After a brief overview of this characteristic type of archaeological evidence, the results of recent field activities aimed at studying these sites with an integrated approach, including remote and proximal sensing, geophysics and field survey, are presented. The final aim is the theorisation of operational intervention protocols, functional for both territorial research and the safeguarding of the buried archaeological heritage, as part of a prevention strategy based on the non-invasive characterisation of contexts.