Geographic Information Systems (GIS) hydrological modeling in archaeology: an example from the origins of irrigation in Southwest Arabia (Yemen)

Harrower, Michael J.

doi:10.1016/j.jas.2010.01.004

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“…One area of disciplinary interest is in 'human-environment' relationships; here water is seen as an element of the environment, manifest in such avatars as rainfall, rivers, and water tables. In addition to engagement with the paleoclimate literature, archaeological research such as that reported by Conesa and colleagues (2014) who use satellite imagery and modeling to understand the dynamics of seasonally flooded river basins in Gujarat, combine climatic and geomorphological evidence with archaeological data to build specific scenarios of past humanenvironment engagements (and see Harrower 2010;Nelson et al 2010;Parker and Horwitz 2012). Water thus plays a critical role in this kind of research which may include, but need not focus on infrastructures at all.…”

Section: Why Study Water?mentioning

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Archaeologies of flow: Water and the landscapes of Southern India past, present, and future

Morrison

2015

Journal of Field Archaeology

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The present and future landscapes and waterscapes of South Asia consist, in part, of many residues of the past-soils, slopes, and a range of water-related infrastructure. As such, many problems related to irrigation and rural water use are directly linked to the embodied histories of this region. Beyond lineal connections, many contemporary problems such as watershed protection, erosion, reservoir siltation, and falling water tables, were also faced by agriculturalists in the past. Archaeologies of flow thus may have some bearing on the present and future as well as the past. This paper provides a review of the evidence for changes in water use over the last 5,000 years in southern India, focusing on the semi-arid interior region of Karnataka state from the Southern Neolithic (c. 3000-1200 B.C.) to the present.

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Archaeologies of flow: Water and the landscapes of Southern India past, present, and future

Morrison

2015

Journal of Field Archaeology

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“…Chen Shupeng once said that: The application of remote sensing in the archaeology research broadens the Humanities [4] . The remote sensing not only was used for the discovery of archaeological site, but also plays an important role in the analysis, management, planning and prediction which gives full play to the spatial information's advantages [5][6][7][8][9][10] . The paper employs the indexes as altitude, slope, aspect, slope shape, surface rolling, and surface incision [11][12][13][14][15][16][17] to analyze the temporal and spatial distribution characteristic of ancient sites.…”

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Distribution characteristics analysis of sites around Taihu Lake basin based on DEM and ETM+

Nie

Zhang³

2012

SPIE Proceedings

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Many ancient sites of different cultural period distributed in the Taihu lake basin. The natural environment is the material foundation that the mankind relies for existence and development, so it's necessary to master the natural environment at that time in order to understand the culture of site. The paper analyzed morphological characteristics and temporal and spatial distribution of ancient site using GIS spatial analysis method which based on the remote sensing image and DEM data. Some terrain indexes were selected as the evaluation factor including altitude, slope, aspect, slope shape and surface rolling, which were used to analyze the relation between the spatial location of ancient site and the natural environment. The research shows the spatial location of ancient sites have a close relationship with natural environment by the terrain analysis and hydrological analysis. Especially, the water distribution plays an important role in the constraints of the distribution of ancient sites, meanwhile the ancients showed the capacity to adapt the environment. Throughout the development of the ancient sites, ancients and nature depend on each other for existence.

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“…The work presented in these pages ends up with the creation of an accurate cartography at a territorial scale (up to 1:5000), and it opens up to the possibility of integrating different data sources in a unique GIS, which demonstrated to represent a great advantage especially in the archaeological domain [28][29][30][31].…”

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Analysis and Processing of Nadir and Stereo VHR Pleiadés Images for 3D Mapping and Planning the Land of Nineveh, Iraqi Kurdistan

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Abstract:The impressive hydraulic system built by the Assyrian King Sennacherib is composed by different archaeological areas, displaced along the Land of Nineveh, in Iraqi Kurdistan. The extensive project we are working on has the aim of mapping and geo-referencing any kind of documentation in order to design an archaeological-environmental park able to preserve and enhance the archaeological complex. Unfortunately, the area is failing a topographic documentation and the available cartography is not sufficient for planning and documentation purposes. The research work presented in these pages moves towards this direction, by exploiting Pleiadés Very High Resolution (VHR) images (in both nadir and stereo configuration) for an accurate mapping of the site. In more depth, Pleiadés nadir VHR images have been used to perform a pansharpening procedure used to enhance the visual interpretation of the study area, whilst stereo-pair have been processed to produce the Digital Elevation Model (DEM) of the study area. Statistical evaluations show the high accuracy of the processing and the reliability of the outputs as well. The integration of different products, at different Levels of Detail within a unique GIS environment, besides protecting, preserving and enhancing the water system of Sennacherib's, paves the way to allow the Kurdistan Regional Government to present a proposal for the admission of the archaeological complex in the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List (WHTL).

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Geographic Information Systems (GIS) hydrological modeling in archaeology: an example from the origins of irrigation in Southwest Arabia (Yemen)

Cited by 61 publications

References 23 publications

Archaeologies of flow: Water and the landscapes of Southern India past, present, and future

Archaeologies of flow: Water and the landscapes of Southern India past, present, and future

Distribution characteristics analysis of sites around Taihu Lake basin based on DEM and ETM+

Analysis and Processing of Nadir and Stereo VHR Pleiadés Images for 3D Mapping and Planning the Land of Nineveh, Iraqi Kurdistan

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