Geographical Information Systems and Landscape ArchaeologyMark Gillings, Jan van Dalen, D. J. Mattingly Oxbow Books, 1999 - 137 pages 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. |
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Page 36
... effect the GIS serves to clear a space within which to do the stuff of archaeology . To realize the full potential of the GIS - approach we must not only begin to investigate and manipulate the full complexity of our physical data ...
... effect the GIS serves to clear a space within which to do the stuff of archaeology . To realize the full potential of the GIS - approach we must not only begin to investigate and manipulate the full complexity of our physical data ...
Page 38
... effect defined as boxes , with associated count and visibility values . It became clear that by using the spatial component in its entirety , i.e. the transect box rather than its centre point , and a simple block shading scheme to ...
... effect defined as boxes , with associated count and visibility values . It became clear that by using the spatial component in its entirety , i.e. the transect box rather than its centre point , and a simple block shading scheme to ...
Page 96
... effects of distance from Rome and other major centres are likely to have had a major effect . The area is also important as a case study of the decline of Rome and the differential effect on the countryside . The pattern changes again ...
... effects of distance from Rome and other major centres are likely to have had a major effect . The area is also important as a case study of the decline of Rome and the differential effect on the countryside . The pattern changes again ...
Contents
GIS AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL THEORY | 13 |
THEORY AND METHOD | 35 |
The Sangro Valley Project | 55 |
Copyright | |
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