Modeling distance with time in ancient Mediterranean seafaring: a GIS application for the interpretation of maritime connectivity

Leidwanger, Justin

doi:10.1016/j.jas.2013.03.016

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“…Prior to the implementation of these methods, several approaches in the relevant literature [22], [43], [44] have been reviewed. Existing approaches, however, often employ assumptions that are far from being objective and may change according to several factors.…”

Section: Embedding Route Risks Based On Archaeological and Geospatial Datamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Regarding the traveling cost, i.e., the time required to travel from one grid cell to its adjacent cell, we have implemented two approaches: the first one, described in [22], employs a linear relationship between travel speed and wind speed, for different wind angles, given in a discrete space, i.e., one linear relationship for 3 discrete ranges of wind angle (< 30 • , < 60 • and all other angles). The other one, described in [43], employs a more realistic sailing diagram which is represented in the form of two polar plots, connecting both wind speeds and wind angles with the final sailing speed, as percentage of wind speed.…”

Section: Embedding Route Risks Based On Archaeological and Geospatial Datamentioning

confidence: 99%

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Evaluation of “The Seafarers”: A serious game on seaborne trade in the Mediterranean sea during the Classical period

Poullis

Kersten-Oertel

Benjamin

et al. 2019

Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage

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Throughout the history of the Mediterranean region, seafaring and trading played a significant role in the interaction between the cultures and people in the area. In order to engage the general public in learning about maritime cultural heritage we have designed and developed a serious game incorporating geospatially analyzed data from open GIS archaeological maritime sources, and archaeological data resulting from shipwreck excavations. We present a second prototype of the seafaring serious game, and discuss the results of an evaluation which involved a large multi-site user study with participants from three continents.More specifically, we present the evaluation of "The Seafarers" a strategy-based game which integrates knowledge from multiple disciplines in order to educate the user through playing. A first prototype was reported in [34] where an expert-user evaluation of the usability and the effectiveness of the game in terms of the learning objectives was performed.In this paper, we present how the outcomes of the evaluation of the first prototype "The Seafarers -1" by expert-users were used in the redesign and development of the game mechanics for the second prototype "The Seafarers-2". We then present our methodology for evaluating the game with respect to the game objective of engagement in learning about maritime cultural heritage, seafaring and trading in particular. Specifically, the evaluation was to test the hypothesis that game playing allows for more engaged learning thus improving longer-term knowledge retention. The evaluation was conducted in two phases and includes a pilot study, followed by a multi-site, multi-continent user-study involving a large number of participants. We analyze the results of the user evaluation and discuss the outcomes. This work is part of the EU-funded project iMareCulture and involves truly multi-continental, multi-institutional and multi-disciplinary cooperation -civil engineers and archaeologists from Cyprus, Human Computer Interaction (HCI) experts and Educationists from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, and cultural sociologists and computer scientists from Canada.

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Section: Embedding Route Risks Based On Archaeological and Geospatial Datamentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Embedding Route Risks Based On Archaeological and Geospatial Datamentioning

confidence: 99%

Evaluation of “The Seafarers”: A serious game on seaborne trade in the Mediterranean sea during the Classical period

Poullis

Kersten-Oertel

Benjamin

et al. 2019

Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage

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“…In analyzing landscape, the topography of the region of interest is commonly used as the cost parameter, as movement is heavily impeded when moving across areas that are heavily sloped. However, topography of the region is not the only cost parameter that can be utilized-research into maritime travel in different regions of the world have focused on using wind speeds as a cost parameter [6] or using distance to a coastal trading hub as a cost parameter [7]. Regardless of the defined parameter, GIS produces an LCP that represents the so called "easiest" route of movement through the parameter between two defined points.…”

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Testing least cost path (LCP) models for travel time and kilocalorie expenditure: Implications for landscape genomics

Gowen

Smet

2020

PLoS ONE

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Least Cost Path (LCP) analysis allows a user to define a cost parameter through which cost of movement can be assessed using Geographical Information Systems (GIS). These analyses are commonly used to construct theoretical movement through a landscape, which has been useful for creating hypotheses concerning prehistoric archaeology and landscape genomics. However, LCP analysis is commonly employed without testing the generated LCP(s), complicating its usefulness as a methodological tool. This paper proposes a model for analyzing movement in ArcGIS by using topography data to calculate slope. This slope data is then then used to calculate LCPs based on travel time and kilocalorie expenditure. LCPs were constructed in the Nature Preserve at Binghamton University, a 182-acre area that consists of wetland and mountainous terrain, and a Fitbit® Surge activity monitor was used to test the accuracy of the model's predictions. Paired sample t-tests show a lack of significant difference between calculated and walked time in our analysis (p = .953), suggesting that our model can estimate travel time between two points based solely on slope of the region. Paired sample t-tests also show a lack of significant difference between calculated and observed kilocalorie expenditure (p = .930), suggesting that our model is also capable of estimating kilocalorie expenditure associated with movement between two points. Finally, paired sample t-tests confirm that straight line distances do not reflect real movement through a terrain (p = .009), highlighting the need for alternate measures of movement when analyzing the effects of local landscape on movement. Our current model shows strength in its estimations of travel time and kilocalorie expenditure based on topography of a region-future iterations of the model need to establish the statistical similarity between our model's estimations and recorded values for walking time and kilocalorie expenditure.

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“…Material culture, or materiality, can help us address the diversity and scale of mobility and connectivity between micro-regions in coastal Languedoc (Figure 1) by examining imports (what was imported and from where), imitations (as indicators of value and meaning) and numbers of such (as indicators of intensity of interaction) 10 . Connectivity and mobility also are pertinent to discussions concerning maritime contexts and have been used to create a theoretical framework for investigating past Mediterranean societies and the formation of identity through subsequent cultural interactions 11 . Following this, maritime connectivity (via merchants, mariners and local traders) determines the level of relationship between different coastal or island communities, as well as the intensity of these connections 12 .…”

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The Rochelongue underwater site and the coastal mobility in West Languedoc (France) during the transit from Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age

Núñez¹

2020

RIPARIA

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This paper examines the material culture of the Rochelongue underwater site by providing key information to better understand traditional discussions about the site, such as its chronology, cultural attribution and nature. This paper, however, focuses on the concept of coastal mobility as an approach that provides access to a much broader assessment of the local population in terms of maritime cultural contact. Maritime interactions are vital in order to understand socioeconomic changes and processes in culture contact and colonial settings in western Languedoc, which occurred during the seventh and sixth centuries B.C. The direct network that shows the Rochelongue underwater site by studying the distribution of metallic objects from the assemblage allows the discussion about the necessity of further investigation in the analysis of local coastal mobility to better understand connectivity and cultural encounters during Late Bronze Age-Early Iron Age in Western Mediterranean.

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Modeling distance with time in ancient Mediterranean seafaring: a GIS application for the interpretation of maritime connectivity

Cited by 78 publications

References 19 publications

Evaluation of “The Seafarers”: A serious game on seaborne trade in the Mediterranean sea during the Classical period

Evaluation of “The Seafarers”: A serious game on seaborne trade in the Mediterranean sea during the Classical period

Testing least cost path (LCP) models for travel time and kilocalorie expenditure: Implications for landscape genomics

The Rochelongue underwater site and the coastal mobility in West Languedoc (France) during the transit from Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age

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