Archeologia preventiva e ricerca nella Valle del Nevola (Marche, Italia). La scoperta "programmata" di una necropoli a Corinaldo

The paper discusses the recent results achieved by the ArcheoNevola project, carried out by the University of Bologna as part of an agreement with several institutions aimed at carrying out an operation of development-led archaeology in Corinaldo, in the middle Valley of the Nevola torrent (northern Marche, Ancona). The programme of activities reserved large space for the use of non-invasive techniques, besides to the analysis of the historical documents and cartography and trial archaeological digs. The accurate process of evaluation has led to the important discovery of a Picenian necropolis with circular funerary monuments and a extraordinary princely tomb with a lavish grave-goods, marginally occupied by later Roman burials. Within this finding geophysics played a crucial role, as for the preventative understanding of the archaeological potential of the site and for the needs related to the ongoing planning project on the area.