Archaeological GIS

The Gluhite Kamani Site: Old Questions and New Approaches

by Julia Tzvetkova

co-authored with G. Nekhrizov, L. Roller, M. Vassileva and N. Kecheva. Thracia 20, 2012, 215-233

“Quantifying the Cult”. A GIS Approach towards the Cult Places of the Thracians from the Iron Age

by Julia Tzvetkova

Thracia 20, 2012, 317-326.

Secondary burial cemeteries, visibility and land tenure: A view from the southern Levant Chalcolithic period

by Rona Winter

Co-authored with Tal Svoray and Isaac Gilead, 2012, Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

The Shotton River and Mesolithic dwellings: Recreating the past from geo-seismic data sources

by Eugene Ch'ng

From Sites to Landscapes: How Computing Technology Is Shaping Archaeological Practice

by Eugene Ch'ng

Entre Rhin et Rhône au premier âge du Fer: La place du mobilier métallique méditerranéen

by Laurie Tremblay Cormier

Poster présenté au 36ème colloque de l'AFEAF - Les Celtes et le Nord de l'Italie, Vérone, 17-20 mai 2012

Cette étude s’attarde sur la caractérisation du flux d’importations d’objets métalliques depuis la péninsule italique... more Cette étude s’attarde sur la caractérisation du flux d’importations d’objets métalliques depuis la péninsule italique (culture de Golasecca, Étrurie, Grande Grèce) et la vallée du Rhône vers le nord-ouest des Alpes. À l’aide des projections linéaires, la distribution de ces importations est quantifiée et comparée aux importations d’autres provenances – domaines nordique, atlantique et danubien, péninsule ibérique, domaine hallstattien oriental. Son évolution au cours du premier âge du Fer, depuis la transition avec l’âge du Bronze à l’apogée du réseau des sites princiers, est également présentée.

Betwee Rhine and Rhone in the Early Iron Age: the place of mediterranean metalwork

by Laurie Tremblay Cormier

Presented during the 36th colloquium of the AFEAF "The Celts and northern Italy", Mai 17th to the 20th, Verona

This work is about the characterization of the importation of metalwork from Italy (Golasecca culture, Etruria, Magna... more This work is about the characterization of the importation of metalwork from Italy (Golasecca culture, Etruria, Magna Graecia) and the Rhone valley to the northwest side of the Alps. Using linear projections, the distribution of these imports is quantified and compared to the other provenances – Nordic, Atlantic and Danubian domains, Iberian Peninsula, Eastern Hallstatt zone. Its evolution during the Early Iron Age, from the transition with Bronze Age to the princely sites network, is also discussed.

La Trouée de Belfort au premier âge du Fer: aux frontières de la recherche

by Laurie Tremblay Cormier

in Schönfelder M. et Sievers S. (2012) - L'âge du Fer entre la Champagne et la Vallée du Rhin, Actes du 34ème colloque de l'AFEAF, Rudolf Habelt Verlag, Bonn, 147-157

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Die Burgundische Pforte in der frühen Eisenzeit am Rande der Forschung

Die Burgundische Pforte ist eine... more Die Burgundische Pforte in der frühen Eisenzeit am Rande der Forschung

Die Burgundische Pforte ist eine wichtige Verbindung zwischen den Einzugsgebieten von Rhône und Rhein. Jedoch zeigt der Forschungsstand eine sehr geringe Funddichte in der frühen Eisenzeit. Eine confidence map erlaubt eine Beurteilung der Schwäche der Dokumentation und kann diese Deutungen differenzieren und absichern. Trotzdem kann die Burgundische Pforte anhand der typologischen Analyse der Metallfunde in ihren archäologischen Kontext gesetzt werden.

The Belfort Gap in the Early Iron Age at the borders of research

The Belfort Gap is an important passageway between the Rhône and Rhine watersheds. In spite of this, the poor state of research leads to an incomplete picture of the Early Iron Age. The confidence map evaluates the weight of this lack of documentation, in order to qualify and to support interpretations. Yet is it still possible to place the Belfort Gap in its archaeological context, using the typology of the metalwork.


La Trouée de Belfort au Premier âge du Fer aux frontières de la recherche

La Trouée de Belfort est un important point de passage reliant les bassins versants du Rhône et du Rhin. Pourtant, l’état de la recherche y entraîne une grande pauvreté des vestiges du premier âge du Fer. La carte de confiance permet d’évaluer l’ampleur de cette faiblesse documentaire, afin d’étayer et nuancer les interprétations. Il demeure néanmoins possible de replacer la Trouée de Belfort dans son contexte archéologique, par le biais de l’étude typologique du mobilier métallique.

La aplicación de los sistemas de Información Geográfica a la Arqueología Urbana

by Jesús Ignacio Jiménez Chaparro

Co-authored with José Manuel Iglesias Gil

Aplicación de herramientas SIG en el proyecto CASTELLA. Centros de poder en Asturias: castillos y fortalezas feudales

by Jesús Ignacio Jiménez Chaparro

Co-authored with José Avelino Gutiérrez González y Patricia Suárez Manjón

La aplicación de los SIG en el sistema de registro arqueológico de la Plaza Velarde de Santander

by Jesús Ignacio Jiménez Chaparro

Co-authored with José Manuel Iglesias Gil

Spatial Analysis of Infant Remains at Catalhoyuk and it's Potential Forensic Application

by Becky Cessford

MSc Thesis

Georeferenziazione Accurata, Veloce e Gratuita

by Gianluca Cantoro

Archeomatica Vol 2, N° 4 (2011), 6-9

La georeferenziazione di una immagine satellitare o di una fotografia aerea rispetto a un sistema di coordinate di... more La georeferenziazione di una immagine satellitare o di una fotografia aerea rispetto a un sistema di coordinate di riferimento risulta un processo spesso indispensabile per la comprensione del palinsesto archeologico. Al tempo stesso essa richiede tempi lunghi (a volte ore) e grande accuratezza. Un aiuto per ridurre i tempi di individuazione e selezione di corrispondenze fra immagini da georeferenziare e sistema di destinazione, aumentando la precisione a livello sub-pixel, viene oggi offerto da un nuovo set di strumenti gratuiti: AutoGR-Toolkit.

The Middle Eastern Geodatabase for Antiquities (MEGA): An Open Source GIS-Based Heritage Site Inventor y and Management System

by David Myers

Co-authored with Alison Dalgity. Published in Change Over Time,  Volume 2, Number 1, Spring 2012, pp. 32-57

The emergence of new digital technologies and rapidly spreading Internet access together present possibilities for... more The emergence of new digital technologies and rapidly spreading Internet access together present possibilities for widely accessible, Web-based national information systems for the inventory and management of heritage sites. The increasing development of open source software tools further provides that such systems may be purpose-built, adaptable, and extensible to the needs of specific situations, and that once developed they can be available to heritage authorities, which are often poorly funded, without associated licensing or upgrade fees.

Working collaboratively with the Jordanian Department of Antiquities (DoA), the Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) and World Monuments Fund (WMF) have developed MEGA-Jordan as a tool to inventory, monitor, and help conserve and manage the thousands of archaeological sites in Jordan. MEGA-Jordan allows DoA officials to address needs such as infrastructure and development control and the development of national and regional research strategies. MEGA-Jordan is Web based, bilingual (Arabic-English), and was developed using state-of-the-art and open source information technologies. It was designed to be modular and easily extensible, allowing it to evolve with the DoA's changing institutional requirements and to be adapted by other countries. The MEGA-Jordan system is available online at www.megajordan.org. Work on an Iraq version of MEGA is slated to begin after the Jordanian system is fully deployed, and will include the system's expansion to contain data for the protection of historic buildings. The GCI and WMF plan to subsequently make the system available for adaptation by other countries.

Citter, Carlo, Andrea Patacchini, Giada Valdambrini, fc. Necropoli, insediamenti e viabilità nell'Europa tardo e post-romana (AD 400-800): l'area franco-alamanna e l'area anglosassone a confronto, in M. Rotili, C. Ebanista (eds.), La trasformazione del mondo romano e le grandi migrazioni: nuovi popoli dall’Europa settentrionale e centro-orientale alle coste del Mediterraneo, Cimitile-Santa Maria Capua Vetere, 2011, fc

by Andrea Patacchini

this paper is in press
This paper analyses the relationship among streets, settlements and cemeteries in two different European regions in order to get quantitative data to compare with the results of Tuscan researches.

Methodische Überlegungen zur Quantifizierung des vermuteten Landesausbaus um 1000 auf Grundlage des Quellenbestands des westlichen Mecklenburgs und östlichen Holsteins.

by Anne Klammt

Felix Biermann/Thomas Kersting/Anne Klamm (Hrsg.), Der Wandel
um 1000. Beiträge der Sektion zur slawischen Frühgeschichte
der 18. Jahrestagung des Mittel- und Ostdeutschen
Verbandes für Altertumsforschung in Greifswald, 23. bis 27. März 2009. Beiträge zur Ur- und Frühgeschichte Mitteleuropas 60 (Langenweißbach 2011) 123-133.

"Slavs, Waters and GIS" - Methods and Base Data to Search for Watercourses and Floodplains in A Meso Scale Study

by Anne Klammt

An article published 2009 and based on research done 2007. Still it might be interesting for all those, who have to deal with reconstructions of watercourses.

This paper focuses on acquisition and procurement of geodata in a meso-scale study in landscape Archaeology. The... more This paper focuses on acquisition and procurement of geodata in a meso-scale study in landscape Archaeology. The research encompasses the early medieval Land use in northern Central Europe. In this article special emphasis lies upon the evaluation of free available source 3arcsec SRTM and the calculation of Local Drainage Directions and a Topographical Position Index. The evaluation had been carried out by contrasting the results with models derived from calculations on basis of a digital landscape model and a digital elevation model, both at the scale of 1:250,000.

La Carta dei Beni Culturali, Archeologia e geoarcheologia

by Marina Marcelli

with R. Matteucci and R. Sebastiani,  in Capitolium, II, marzo 2004, pp. 29-31

Roeloffs_etal_2011_Karstic Caves Morocco

by Jörg Linstädter

Caves and rock shelters are important archives for archaeological research. Prehistoric men not onlysheltered in caves... more Caves and rock shelters are important archives for archaeological research. Prehistoric men not onlysheltered in caves but also set up camps in open-air locations. Over the last 15 years a joint researchgroup, comprising INSAP (Institut National des Sciences de l’Archéologie et du Patrimoine du Maroc),KAAK (Kommission für Archäologie Außereuropäischer Kulturen, German Archaeology Institute) andthe University of Cologne, has been carrying out surveys and excavations in the area of the Eastern Rif (NE-Morocco). Huge parts of the vast working area are poorly accessible and it is now realised that thewhole area can only be covered using a remote sensing approach.The aim of this project is to integratehigh resolution topographical, visual and geological data in order to develop models so that site loca-tions can be predicted. Information from remote sensing (satellite image) and Geographic InformationSystem (GIS) is used to identify an area in which carstic caves can occur and caves featuring archaeo-logical remains may be located. The intersection of geological and topographical maps with QuickBirdsatellite imagery can then be used to quantify different features of identied caves. Based on the par-tially existing fans of sediment in front of the carstic caves, potential locations of caves in the denedarea could be discovered.
Keywords:
NE-Morocco, prehistoric occupation, remote sensing, GIS, carstic caves, limestone, predic-tive models for site location, sediment fan

Linstädter_2007_Gilf_Uweinat_Sfb389 Atlas

by Jörg Linstädter

It is a fact that during the Holocene peripheral areas of deserts and semi-deserts were frequented by prehistoric... more It is a fact that during the Holocene peripheral areas of deserts and semi-deserts were frequented by prehistoric menfrom the today inhabited regions of Northeastern Africa like the Nile valley, the Egyptian Oasis or the Wadi Howarin Northern Sudan. Examples are the use of the Laqiya region in times of the Nubian A-Group (4
th
millennium calBC) from the Nile Valley or the exploitation of the Eastern Great Sand Sea and the Abu Ballas escarpment area fromthe Dakhla Oasis. But in addition archaeological findings from the Western Great Sand Sea, the Gilf Kebir and theSelima Sandsheet (Jebel Kamil area) show the existence of a prehistoric occupation at that time. The exploitation ofthese regions from the mentioned areas with favourable conditions is unlikely because of their large distance and theunresembling artefact material. Now this work should prove the hypothesis whether the Jebel Ouenat / Gilf Kebirregion in the core of the today’s hyperarid Eastern Desert was a favourable centre itself. In this context the amountand temporal availability of the water reservoirs behind the blocking dunes of the southern Gilf Kebir (Linstaedter and Kroepelin 2004) and the wells of Jebel Ouenat are of outstanding importance. If they had permi�ed an occupation ofthe Gilf Kebir and the Jebel Ouenat all year round a use of the adjacent waterless surroundings is supposable.