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We investigated local-scale urban profiles by analysing the spatial structure of 124 territorial indicators to identify possibly relevant dimensions influencing urban evolution and promoting socioeconomic transformation. To assess patterns and processes of urban expansion, Athens (Greece) was taken as a prototype of metropolitan systems with a diversified morphology and entropic functions.

The current volume includes a selection of the papers presented at this session, as well as some new invited papers by leading international researchers. These supplementary papers were added to achieve a more global representation and to complement some of the topics addressed in this volume.

Il presente lavoro si incentra sull’analisi della distribuzione spaziale dei manufatti litici provenienti da un’area interna all’abitato di Coppa Nevigata (Manfredonia, FG), al fine di comprendere i modelli di comportamento connessi alla produzione e all’uso dell’industria litica scheggiata, anche attraverso uno specifico studio tecno-morfo-funzionale svolto sui reperti. La ricerca rientra in un più ampio progetto volto alla caratterizzazione funzionale di un’area dell’abitato databile ad un momento avanzato del Subappenninico Recente (XII sec.

Archaeological deposits in rock shelters have enormous informative potential, particularly in arid environments where organic materials are well preserved. In these areas, sub-fossilized coprolites and dung remains have been identified as valuable proxies for inferences about past environments, subsistence economies and cultural trajectories. Here we present a multidisciplinary analysis of bovid (ovicaprine) coprolites collected from the Early Holocene hunter-gatherer occupation at Takarkori rock shelter (SW Libya, central Sahara).

The overcrowding of first aid facilities creates considerable hardship and problems which
have repercussions on patients’ wellbeing, the time needed for a diagnosis, and on the quality of
the assistance. The basic objective of this contribution, based on the data collected by the Hospital
Policlinico Umberto I in Rome (Lazio region, Italy), is to carry out a territorial screening of
the municipality using GIS applications and spatial analyses aimed at reducing—in terms of