Flexibility by Design: How Mobile GIS Meets the Needs of Archaeological Survey

Tripcevich, Nicholas

doi:10.1559/1523040042246025

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“…In addition, a total of eight 1x1m test excavations provided stratigraphic information. Survey work focused on recording cultural and geological features into a customized version of ESRI Arcpad mobile GIS system with a differential GPS horizontal error of Procurement at the Chivay obsidian source 277 53m (Tripcevich 2004;Tripcevich and Wernke 2010). The GIS-based fieldwork permitted us to record the varying concentrations of artifacts in the continuum of lithic material that is typical of a lithic source by recording 'site' polygons, for government compliance, as the lowest of four levels of artifact density concentrations; our approach thus borrowed from 'siteless survey' concepts (Dunnell and Dancey 1983;Ebert 1992).…”

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Procurement at the Chivay obsidian source, Arequipa, Peru

Tripcevich

Mackay

2011

World Archaeology

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Results of survey and test excavations at the Chivay obsidian source in highland Peru found evidence of use of the source area throughout much of the prehispanic past. An examination of a quarry pit and workshop suggest that quarrying and workshop production intensified at the end of the Preceramic period in the region. The high elevation Chivay source (71.53558 S, 15.64238 E) lies at 4950 masl and was the geological origin for prehispanic obsidian artifacts from throughout much of southern Peru and Bolivia. Radiocarbon dates on charcoal recovered from the lower levels of a test unit placed in a mound of obsidian debris at the workshop, together with an obsidian hydration sequence from test units at both the workshop and the quarry pit, point to an amplification of quarrying and workshop production during the Terminal Archaic, or the third and second millennium BC. Regional exchange networks and trade in exotic goods are extensive during later periods in Andean prehistory but these data suggest that obsidian as an early target of procurement over distance was prepared in a dense production deposit that reflects changes over time.

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Procurement at the Chivay obsidian source, Arequipa, Peru

Tripcevich

Mackay

2011

World Archaeology

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“…Researchers with limited programming skills are enabled to tailor the software to the priorities and theoretical needs of the scientific projects they carry out (Tripcevich, 2004). To the recorded features of points, lines or polygons, user-definable attributes can be assigned as appropriate to the mapping task in hand.…”

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Lemmens¹

2011

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The "Geotechnologies and the Environment" series is intended to provide specialists in the geotechnologies and academics who utilize these technologies, with an opportunity to share novel approaches, present interesting (sometimes counter-intuitive) case studies, and most importantly to situate GIS, remote sensing, GPS, the internet, new technologies, and methodological advances in a real world context. In doing so, the books in the series will be inherently applied and reflect the rich variety of research performed by geographers and allied professionals.Beyond the applied nature of many of the papers and individual contributions, the series interrogates the dynamic relationship between nature and society. For this reason, many contributors focus on human-environment interactions. The series are not limited to an interpretation of the environment as nature per se. Rather, the series "places" people and social forces in context and thus explore the many sociospatial environments humans construct for themselves as they settle the landscape. Consequently, contributions will use geotechnologies to examine both urban and rural landscapes.

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“…ArcPad can be customized relatively rapidly by nonprogrammers to meet the needs of archaeologists, and the GIS can be used analytically to link laboratory results from survey and surface collection with excavated contexts (Tripcevich 2004(Tripcevich , 2007. The approach described here is amenable to collaboration by numerous specialists because it consists of a smaller mobile sub-set of the mature and widelyused ArcGIS platform.…”

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“…Perhaps because of the fundamental importance of a three-dimensional data registry, digital data entry for excavation has lagged behind that of survey (Ryan et al 1999;Ryan and van Leusen 2002;Tripcevich 2004;Wagtendonk and De Jeu 2007). At the regional scale, GIS-based field methods are established in survey research design and execution, and are distinguished from traditional methods primarily by greater precision and scale of documentation.…”

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On-Site Recording of Excavation Data Using Mobile GIS

Tripcevich¹,

Wernke²

2010

Journal of Field Archaeology

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Archaeologists have embraced new technologies in many aspects of research, but reliance on paperbased recording has impeded development of excavation recording methods. The digital recording of spatial provenience for artifacts and features, together with complex attributes during excavation, while not problem-free, provides a streamlined recording process. This article describes a digital interface that links precise spatial provenience with digital forms and geo-referenced photographs during excavation at a colonial site in highland Peru. A customized version of ESRI ArcPad provides the means to create and to explore spatial and attribute data in the field and laboratory as GIS data, which in turn can be integrated with ArcGIS for post-field visualization and analysis.

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Flexibility by Design: How Mobile GIS Meets the Needs of Archaeological Survey

Cited by 31 publications

References 14 publications

Procurement at the Chivay obsidian source, Arequipa, Peru

Procurement at the Chivay obsidian source, Arequipa, Peru

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