Landscape Archaeology And Gis

Author : Henry Chapman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105122932085

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Landscape Archaeology and GIS by Henry Chapman Pdf

Landscape Archaeology and GIS examines the ways in which Geographical Information Systems can be used to explore archaeological landscapes, and summarizes the most appropriate methods to use. It is structured around principal themes in landscape archaeology, and integrates desk-based assessment, data collection, data modeling, and landscape analysis, right through to archiving and publication. This is the first book on GIS to focus specifically on landscape archaeology that is accessible to a wide archaeological readership. It explores the applications of GIS to a wide variety of archaeological evidence including maps, aerial photographs, and earthworks. The work is well-illustrated throughout with digital maps and models being used to support case studies, as well as for suggesting new hypotheses relevant to this discipline.

Author : Stuart Eve
Publisher : British Archaeological Reports Limited
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 140731291X

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Dead Men's Eyes by Stuart Eve Pdf

This book provides an exciting foray into the use of emerging Mixed Reality techniques for examining and analysing archaeological landscapes. Mixed Reality provides an opportunity to merge the real world with virtual elements of relevance to the past, including 3D models, soundscapes, smellscapes and other immersive data. By using Mixed Reality, the results of sophisticated desk-based GIS analyses can be experienced directly within the field and combined with body-centered phenomenological analysis to create an embodied GIS. The book explores the potential of this methodology by applying it in the Bronze Age landscape of Leskernick Hill, Bodmin Moor, UK. Since Leskernick Hill has (famously) already been the subject of intensive phenomenological investigation, it is possible to compare the insights gained from 'traditional' landscape phenomenology with those obtained from the use of Mixed Reality, and effectively combine quantitative GIS analysis and phenomenological fieldwork into one embodied experience. This mixing of approaches leads to the production of a new innovative method which not only provides new interpretations of the settlement on Leskernick Hill but also suggests avenues for the future of archaeological landscape research more generally. The book will be of interest to anyone studying or working in the fields of landscape archaeology, digital techniques in archaeology, archaeological theory or GIS.

Author : Anita Casarotto
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : ARCHITECTURE
ISBN : 9087283113

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Spatial Patterns in Landscape Archaeology by Anita Casarotto Pdf

This 43rd volume of the ASLU series presents a useful GIS procedure to study settlement patterns in landscape archaeology. In several Mediterranean regions, archaeological sites have been mapped by fieldwalking surveys, producing large amounts of data. These legacy site-based survey data represent an important resource to study ancient settlement organization. Methodological procedures are necessary to cope with the limits of these data, and more importantly with the distortions on data patterns caused by biasing factors. This book develops and applies a GIS procedure to use legacy survey data in settlement pattern analysis. It consists of two parts. One part regards the assessment of biases that can affect the spatial patterns exhibited by survey data. The other part aims to shed light on the location preferences and settlement strategy of ancient communities underlying site patterns. In this book, a case-study shows how the method works in practice. As part of the research by the Landscapes of Early Roman Colonization project (NWO, Leiden University, KNIR) site-based datasets produced by survey projects in central-southern Italy are examined in a comparative framework to investigate settlement patterns in the early Roman colonial period (3rd century B.C.).

Author : Mark Gillings,Jan van Dalen,D. J. Mattingly
Publisher : Oxbow Books Limited
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Nature
ISBN : UOM:39015050295099

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Geographical Information Systems and Landscape Archaeology by Mark Gillings,Jan van Dalen,D. J. Mattingly Pdf

This monograph focuses on the use of GIS modelling as applied to the collection and interpretation of data relating to the archaeology of the Mediterranean landscape.

Author : Nicolò Dell’Unto,Giacomo Landeschi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000554304

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Archaeological 3D GIS by Nicolò Dell’Unto,Giacomo Landeschi Pdf

Archaeological 3D GIS provides archaeologists with a guide to explore and understand the unprecedented opportunities for collecting, visualising, and analysing archaeological datasets in three dimensions. With platforms allowing archaeologists to link, query, and analyse in a virtual, georeferenced space information collected by different specialists, the book highlights how it is possible to re-think aspects of theory and practice which relate to GIS. It explores which questions can be addressed in such a new environment and how they are going to impact the way we interpret the past. By using material from several international case studies such as Pompeii, Çatalhöyük, as well as prehistoric and protohistoric sites in Southern Scandinavia, this book discusses the use of the third dimension in support of archaeological practice. This book will be essential for researchers and scholars who focus on archaeology and spatial analysis, and is designed and structured to serve as a textbook for GIS and digital archaeology courses. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Author : Devin A. White,Sarah L Surface-Evans
Publisher : University of Utah Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781607811992

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Least Cost Analysis of Social Landscapes by Devin A. White,Sarah L Surface-Evans Pdf

Case studies that act as a guidebook to archeologists on the uses of least cost analysis using GIS methodologies

Author : Bruno David,Julian Thomas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315427720

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Handbook of Landscape Archaeology by Bruno David,Julian Thomas Pdf

Over the past three decades, 'landscape' has become an umbrella term to describe many different strands of archaeology. Here, archaeologists attempt a comprehensive definition of the ideas & practices of landscape archaeology, covering the theoretical & the practical, the research & conservation, encasing the term in a global framework.

Author : James Conolly,Mark Lake,Mark W. Lake
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2006-05-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780521793308

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Geographical Information Systems in Archaeology by James Conolly,Mark Lake,Mark W. Lake Pdf

Geographical Information Systems has moved from the domain of the computer specialist into the wider archaeological community, providing it with an exciting new research method. This clearly written but rigorous book provides a comprehensive guide to that use. Topics covered include: the theoretical context and the basics of GIS; data acquisition including database design; interpolation of elevation models; exploratory data analysis including spatial queries; statistical spatial analysis; map algebra; spatial operations including the calculation of slope and aspect, filtering and erosion modeling; methods for analysing regions; visibility analysis; network analysis including hydrological modeling; the production of high quality output for paper and electronic publication; and the use and production of metadata. Offering an extensive range of archaeological examples, it is an invaluable source of practical information for all archaeologists, whether engaged in cultural resource management or academic research. This is essential reading for both the novice and the advanced user.

Author : Gary R Lock,Zoran Stancic
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-26
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781000725148

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Archaeology And Geographic Information Systems by Gary R Lock,Zoran Stancic Pdf

Geographic information systems GIS applications are viewed with increasing interest by the archaeology community and this book, with its diversity of topics and authorship, should be a useful resource. Complementing the volume "Interpreting Space" Taylor & Francis, 1990, which focused on North American archaeology, this title further develops themes within a specifically - though not exclusively - European context.; It is apparent that there are fundamental differences between North American and European archaeological uses of GIS. Primarily these differences lie in the types of evidence for past landscapes that are available for study in the two continents, and secondly in the different approaches to archaeology and specifically the theory and practice of landscape archaeology. This title centres on the role of archaeological theory in cultural resource management CRM and in GIS applications generally. It showcases the important debate which takes the emphasis away from the technology of GIS and places it back within the central concerns of archaeology and particularly European archaeology.; "Archaeology and GIS" includes material on such concerns as CRM applications, landscape archaeology, intra-site applications and explicitly theoretical concerns, thus representing the state of GIS applications in European archaeology. Contributions come from countries such as France, Italy, Hungary, UK, USA, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Spain, Slovenia and Finland.

Author : Konnie L. Wescott,R. Joe Brandon
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1999-12-23
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781482262964

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Practical Applications of GIS for Archaeologists by Konnie L. Wescott,R. Joe Brandon Pdf

The use of GIS is the most powerful technology introduced to archaeology since the introduction of carbon 14 dating. The most widespread use of this technology has been for the prediction of archaeological site locations. This book focuses on the use of GIS for archaeological predictive modeling. The contributors include internationally recognized researchers who have been at the forefront of this revolutionary integration of GIS and archaeology, as well as first generation researchers who have begun to critically apply this new technology and explore its theoretical implications.

Author : Silvia Polla,Philip Verhagen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110377132

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Computational Approaches to the Study of Movement in Archaeology by Silvia Polla,Philip Verhagen Pdf

This book contains a collection of papers discussing questions related to space and movement in the framework of computational archaeology, landscape archaeology, historical geography and archaeological theory. The contributions, written by recognized experts in the field, show how the study of settlements pattern and movement has been dramatically transformed by the use of technology like Geographic Information System (GIS). The papers focus on the ways to approach past movement using GIS in archaeological landscape studies: theoretical, technical and interpretative issues are addressed and explored. They provide the state of the art in theory and methodology and show, by using case studies, the potential of the developed approaches for the understanding of factors and effects of landscape formation and transformation in the long term.

Author : Sarah H. Parcak
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134060450

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Satellite Remote Sensing for Archaeology by Sarah H. Parcak Pdf

This handbook is the first comprehensive overview of the field of satellite remote sensing for archaeology and how it can be applied to ongoing archaeological fieldwork projects across the globe. It provides a survey of the history and development of the field, connecting satellite remote sensing in archaeology to broader developments in remote sensing, archaeological method and theory, cultural resource management, and environmental studies. With a focus on practical uses of satellite remote sensing, Sarah H. Parcak evaluates satellite imagery types and remote sensing analysis techniques specific to the discovery, preservation, and management of archaeological sites. Case studies from Asia, Central America, and the Middle East are explored, including Xi’an, China; Angkor Wat, Cambodia and Egypt’s floodplains. In-field surveying techniques particular to satellite remote sensing are emphasized, providing strategies for recording ancient features on the ground observed from space. The book also discusses broader issues relating to archaeological remote sensing ethics, looting prevention, and archaeological site preservation. New sensing research is included and illustrated with the inclusion of over 160 satellite images of ancient sites. With a companion website (www.routledge.com/textbooks/9780415448789) with further resources and colour images, Satellite Remote Sensing for Archaeology will provide anyone interested in scientific applications to uncovering past archaeological landscapes a foundation for future research and study.

Author : David Wheatley,Mark Gillings
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-05
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781466576612

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Spatial Technology and Archaeology by David Wheatley,Mark Gillings Pdf

Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and related spatial technologies have a new and powerful role to play in archaeological interpretation. Beginning with a conceptual approach to the representation of space adopted by GIS, this book examines spatial databases; the acquisition and compilation of data; the analytical compilation of data; the analytical functionality of GIS; and the creation and utilization of critical foundation data layers such as the Digital Elevation Model (DEM). The ways in which GIS can most usefully facilitate archaeological analysis and interpretation are then explored particularly as a tool for the management of archaeological resources. Formal analysis of archaeological material, and the use of trend surface, contouring and interpolation procedures are considered along with predictive modeling analysis of visibility and intervisibility. Finally there is a discussion of leading-edge issues, including three-dimensional GIS, object-oriented GIS, the relationship between GIS and 'Virtual Reality' technologies, and the integration of GIS with distributed systems and the Internet. The approach is light, and technical detail is kept to a minimum, recognizing that most readers are simply interested in using GIS effectively. The text is carefully illustrated with worked case-studies using archaeological data. Spatial Technology and Archaeology provides a single reference source for archaeologists, students, professionals, and academics in archaeology as well as those in anthropology and related disciplines.

Author : Stefano R.L. Campana
Publisher : Springer
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-25
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319895727

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Mapping the Archaeological Continuum by Stefano R.L. Campana Pdf

This book addresses the true 'landscape' perspective approach that archaeologists in Italy, and in many parts of the Mediterranean, use to study the archaeology of landscapes, marking a departure from the traditional site-based approach. The aim of the book is to promote the broader application of new paradigms for landscape analysis, combining traditional approaches with multidisciplinary studies as well as comparatively new techniques such as large-scale geophysical surveying, airborne laser scanning and geo-environmental studies. This approach has yielded tangible and striking results in central Italy, clearly demonstrating that identifying the 'archaeological continuum' is a realistic aim, even under the specific environmental and archaeological conditions of the Mediterranean world.

Author : Victorino Mayoral Herrera,César Parcero Oubiña,Pastor Fábrega Álvarez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9088904537

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Archaeology and Geomatics by Victorino Mayoral Herrera,César Parcero Oubiña,Pastor Fábrega Álvarez Pdf