DOI: 10.4018/IJCMHS.2018070102 International Journal of Computational Methods in Heritage Science Volume 2 • Issue 2 • July-December 2018  Copyright©2018,IGIGlobal.CopyingordistributinginprintorelectronicformswithoutwrittenpermissionofIGIGlobalisprohibited.  18 Scientific Cooperation and Implementation of New Technologies for the Development of Archaeological Heritage: A Case Study of the Roman Villa of Noheda (Cuenca, Spain) Miguel Angel Valero-Tévar, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain Nuria Huete-Alcocer, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain ABSTRACT The recent discovery of the site of the Roman villa of Noheda and its outstanding mosaics has entailedaconsiderableboostforresearchontheRomanworldand,especially,fortheunderstanding ofthepalacesandlargeruralcomplexesofLateAntiquity.Hence,duringtheexcavationprocess, in addition to the application of the appropriate archaeological methodology, the latest available researchandanalysistechniqueshavebeenusedtodocumentthesearchaeologicalremainsinas muchdetailaspossible.Thisapproachisbasedontheunderstandingthatonlythroughameticulous analysisofthedatatobecollectedfromthelargenumberofstructuresandartefactsburiedinthe stratigraphicsequencecaninformationbeproperlydecoded.Thepresentpaperthusaimstoprovide aconciseoverviewofhowtechnologicaladvances,suchasgeoradar,3Dscanning,laserscanning, photogrammetry,etc.,havebeencombinedtoachieveoptimalresults. KeywoRDS Drone, Georadar. Mosaics, Palace, Photogrammetry, Roman Villa, Three-Dimensional Scanning, Triclinium INTRoDUCTIoN The present paper aims to explain how some of the most innovative documentation techniques havebeenappliedintheresearchcurrentlybeingundertakenattheRoman villaofNoheda.These techniquesarebeingusedtodevelopadetailedandcomprehensiverecordofallthedataobtained duringtheexcavationprocess,understoodastheonlymeansofrigorouslyportrayingalltheunearthed information.Thedataobtainedwillfacilitatethereconstructionnotonlyofthebuilding,butalsoits environmentandsetting,afundamentalmeansofanalysingthesite. Inrecentdecades,archaeologicalmethodologiesandexcavationtechniqueshavegraduallybeen refinedandstandardised.AtNoheda,allthelatestdevelopmentshavebeenimplemented,notleast by replacing the obsolete archaeological method of opening small reticular grids with open-area excavations.Thismakesitpossibletodocumenttheentirestratigraphicsequencewithoutartificial interruptions. Inkeepingwiththedecisiontousethelatestmethodologicaltrendsandarchaeologicalexcavation techniquesatthesite,itwasdecidedtoapplysomeofthemostground-breakingtechnologicaladvances