Mapping liminality: Critical frameworks for the GIS-based modelling of visibility

Gillings, Mark

doi:10.1016/j.jas.2017.05.004

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“…In this study, 3D visualization, least-cost paths (LCPs), and viewshed analysis are employed to examine how the landscape of Dinas Powys was reflected in the exercise of elite power. The analyses undertaken are comparatively simple 'off the shelf' forms of cartesian analysis that have long been applied in landscape archaeology (Conolly & Lake, 2006), but we have adopted an integrated approach that moves beyond 'typecast' analysis focused on identifying intervisibility between sites (Lock et al, 2014;Gillings, 2017). There is a wide literature on the application of GIS in landscape archaeology (for a recent overview see Howey & Brouwer Burg, 2017), and critiques of the tools employed in this study focus on the reductive nature of movement modelling and the primacy given to visual perception over other forms of sensory engagement (Frieman & Gillings, 2007;Supernant, 2017).…”

Section: Gis and Landscape Analysis: Methods And Theoriesmentioning

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Hillforts and Power in the British Post-Roman West: A GIS Analysis of Dinas Powys

Seaman

Thomas

2020

Eur. j. archaeol

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The (re)occupation of hillforts was a distinctive feature of post-Roman Europe in the fifth to seventh centuries ad. In western and northern Britain, hillforts are interpreted as power centres associated with militarized elites, but research has paid less attention to their landscape context, hence we know little about the factors that influenced their siting and how this facilitated elite power. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) provide opportunities for landscape research, but are constrained by limitations of source data and the difficulty of defining appropriate parameters for analysis. This article presents a new methodology that combines data processing and analytical functions in GIS with techniques and principles drawn from ‘traditional’ landscape archaeology. A case study, focused on Dinas Powys, suggests that the strategic siting of this hillfort facilitated control over the landscape and has wider implications for our understanding of patterns of power in post-Roman Britain.

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Section: Gis and Landscape Analysis: Methods And Theoriesmentioning

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Hillforts and Power in the British Post-Roman West: A GIS Analysis of Dinas Powys

Seaman

Thomas

2020

Eur. j. archaeol

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“…That said, interested parties should be cautious in assuming that visibility analyses—and particularly those described here—will always produce meaningful results. Gillings says it best: “Whilst generating them has always been a relatively trivial task, knowing what to do with them once generated has proven far more difficult” (2017:121). Indeed, visibility-based analyses are only as powerful as the questions they answer.…”

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Regional Ways of Seeing: A Big-Data Approach for Measuring Ancient Visualscapes

Susmann

2020

Adv. archaeol. pract.

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Archaeologists have long acknowledged the significance of mountains in siting Greek cult. Mountains were where the gods preferred to make contact and there people constructed sanctuaries to inspire intervention. Greece is a land full of mountains, but we lack insight on the ancient Greeks’ view—what visible and topographic characteristics made particular mountains ideal places for worship over others, and whether worshiper preferences ever changed. This article describes a data collection and analysis methodology for landscapes where visualscape was a significant factor in situating culturally significant activities. Using a big-data approach, four geospatial analyses are applied to every cultic place in the Peloponnesian regions of the Argolid and Messenia, spanning 2800–146 BC. The fully described methodology combines a number of experiences—looking out, looking toward, and climbing up—and measures how these change through time. The result is an active historic model of Greek religious landscape, describing how individuals moved, saw, and integrated the built and natural world in different ways. Applied elsewhere, and even on nonreligious locales, this is a replicable mode for treating the natural landscape as an artifact of human decision: as a space impacting the siting of meaningful locales through history.

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“…Como ha sido señalado ya en numerosos trabajos (Fábrega, 2016;Lock y Pouncett, 2017: 130;Gillings, 2017, entre otros) estas herramientas pecan de seguir premisas claramente deterministas y economicistas no teniendo en cuenta los condicionantes culturales que pudieron afectar a las interpretaciones hechas por los SIG. A esto se suma un uso desde una óptica similar por parte de los investigadores hecho por el cual, en los últimos años, y bajo una perspectiva postmodernista eras herramientas han sido cuestionadas (Fábrega, 2016: 161).…”

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El Cerro Bilanero: primeros resultados de las excavaciones y estudio de materiales de una morra de la Edad del Bronce perteneciente a la cultura de las Motillas

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Puente³

et al. 2019

Rev. estud. Campo Montiel

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Mapping liminality: Critical frameworks for the GIS-based modelling of visibility

Cited by 31 publications

References 26 publications

Hillforts and Power in the British Post-Roman West: A GIS Analysis of Dinas Powys

Hillforts and Power in the British Post-Roman West: A GIS Analysis of Dinas Powys

Regional Ways of Seeing: A Big-Data Approach for Measuring Ancient Visualscapes

El Cerro Bilanero: primeros resultados de las excavaciones y estudio de materiales de una morra de la Edad del Bronce perteneciente a la cultura de las Motillas

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