Visual Affordance, Landscape, and the Megaliths of Alderney

Gillings, Mark

doi:10.1111/j.1468-0092.2009.00332.x

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“…In practice, however, the application of GIS-based visibility analysis to questions of human perception of the landscape has not become very popular, despite several attempts in this direction (e.g. Llobera 1996;Trifković 2006;Gillings 2009;Lock et al 2014). 3D modelling and virtual reality approaches would now seem to be more effective tools for this, although these generally lack the analytical capabilities offered by GIS.…”

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Spatial Analysis in Archaeology: Moving into New Territories

Verhagen

2017

Natural Science in Archaeology

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GIS has become an indispensable tool for archaeologists to organize, explore and analyse spatial data. In this introductory chapter, an historical overview of the development of GIS use in archaeology is given. It focuses on three major fields of application: site location analysis, modelling movement and transport and visibility analysis. This state of the art is illustrated by discussing three different case studies. Finally, some thoughts on the future of GIS in archaeology are presented. Keywords GIS • Archaeological theory • Site location analysis • Least-cost paths • Viewsheds IntroductionIt is now over 30 years ago that the term GIS was introduced in archaeology (Hasenstab 1983), and it is hard to imagine how archaeologists have ever done research without it. GIS and spatial analysis are now seen by most archaeologists as essential tools to explore, analyse and interpret spatial data and have become standard ingredients in many archaeological research projects. GIS and spatial analysis are extremely convenient techniques for more efficiently carrying out 'traditional' archaeological research. However, there are also those who maintain that the 'spatial turn', boosted by GIS technology, points the way to applying fundamentally different theoretical perspectives in archaeology.In this chapter, I will give a condensed overview of the current state of GIS use in archaeology and attempt to sketch the current role of GIS and spatial analysis for archaeological interpretation and show its potential for changing theoretical perspectives and research traditions, drawing on examples from recent research. And lastly, I will try to look into the crystal ball and set a tentative agenda for future research.

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Spatial Analysis in Archaeology: Moving into New Territories

Verhagen

2017

Natural Science in Archaeology

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“…un avance en el registro, análisis y representación de los resultados de prospecciones a escala regional se encuentra en la difusión generalizada de la geolocalización mediante GpS, como auguraba ruiz Zapatero en su revisión sobre la prospección en españa (2004). la facilidad del tratamiento de largas secuencias de datos en entornos SIG permite incrementar el detalle de los resultados obtenidos en trabajos de prospección (bevan et al 2002;Campana et al 2007;García Sanjuán 2004;Gillings 1996;Gillings et al 1999). Ofrece la posibilidad de registrar los atributos espaciales del material recopilado de forma individual, manteniendo al mismo tiempo una inversión de tiempo adecuada dentro de los requerimientos de un proceso planteado en marcos de trabajo amplios ( fig.…”

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Metodologías de prospección a escala regional y artefactual en la comarca. La prospección del "Ager Segisamonensis"; comarca Odra-Pisuerga (Burgos)

Sánchez

2013

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“…The adoption of GIS in the context of Mediterranean regional survey has been particularly rapid. This is well-illustrated by the complete absence of any mention of GIS at the 1988 "Roman Landscapes" conference (published as Barker and Lloyd 1991), soon followed by the dedication of a whole POPULUS colloquium to the topic in 1995 (published as Gillings et al 1999).…”

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(Re)surveying Mediterranean Rural Landscapes: GIS and Legacy Survey Data

Witcher¹

2008

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The full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. AbstractLegacy data have always been important for Mediterranean archaeologists. Over the past decade, one specific category of legacy data, that deriving from regional survey, has become particularly important. Not only has the scale of research questions become larger (requiring greater reliance on others" data), but the surface archaeological record is deteriorating (diminishing the ability to recover good data). The legacy data from many individual surveys have now been subject to digitisation and GIS analysis, successfully redeploying data collected for one purpose within new theoretical and interpretive frameworks. However, a key research focus is now comparative survey -using the results of many different Mediterranean surveys side-by-side to identify regional variability in settlement organisation, economy and demography. In order to overcome the significant methodological differences between these surveys, attention has 2 focused on the documentation of metadata. Yet, many legacy data lack vital information about their creation and hence how they might be (re)interpreted and compared. GIS has been advanced as an environment in which to contain, order and analyse the data necessary for comparative survey. However, there is a danger that the technology will facilitate inappropriate use of these datasets in a way that fails to acknowledge and understand the very real differences between them. Here, emphasis is placed upon the use of GIS as a space for exploratory data analysis: a process that encompasses and emphasises the integral processes of digitisation, visualisation and simple analysis for the characterisation of datasets in order to derive an alternative form of metadata. Particular emphasis is placed upon the interaction of past human behaviour (e.g. in the Roman period) and archaeological recovery (i.e. the behaviour of archaeologists in the present, or recent past); these two sets of "social action" combine to create distinctive archaeological datasets. This search for "contextual" metadata within individual legacy survey datasets supplements more "formal" metadata and facilitates both interpretation of individual surveys and comparison between them. Case studies from Italy are used to illustrate the kind of iterative and incremental approach to legacy survey data advocated.

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Visual Affordance, Landscape, and the Megaliths of Alderney

Abstract: ojoa_332 335..356 MARK GILLINGS the research contextThe research forms part of a new programme focusing on the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age archaeology of the island of Alderney in the Channel Islands. As Patton has noted, although a small number of flint scatters have been recorded

Cited by 70 publications

References 33 publications

Spatial Analysis in Archaeology: Moving into New Territories

Spatial Analysis in Archaeology: Moving into New Territories

Metodologías de prospección a escala regional y artefactual en la comarca. La prospección del "Ager Segisamonensis"; comarca Odra-Pisuerga (Burgos)

(Re)surveying Mediterranean Rural Landscapes: GIS and Legacy Survey Data

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