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Mapping the Past, Plotting the Future. GIS in Archaeology, Programme and book of abstracts
International Workshop organized by the Athena RC (and hosted by the British School at Athens) on the occasion of the establishment of the Archaeological GIS laboratory, AeGIS Athena at Xanthi (http://aegis.athenarc.gr/). Through selected case studies, each of which makes different use of the dynamic and flexible environment offered by GIS, the meeting aims to address some key issues in GIS application in archaeology. Participants Antoniadis V., Bonnier A., Boyd M.J., Campbell R., Donati J.C., Efkleidou K., Evangelidis V., Giannakoula G., Herbst J., Indjerd H., Karta M., Katevaini A., Katsianis M., Kennedy W., Kopanias K., Lolos Y., Loy M., Malaperdas G., Meyer N., Mourthos Y., Mousouris S., Nenci N., Orengo H., Renfrew C., Sarris A., Tsiafaki D., Tzavella E., Vassiliou A.
Assessing the state of archaeological GIS research: Unbinding analyses of past landscapes
The early pioneers of archaeological Geographic Information Systems (GIS) advocated for a future where this technology was more than a data-management tool. To this end, they emphasized harnessing the analytic power of GIS to advance innovative understandings of past social landscapes. This paper introduces the special issue, explaining its aims to offer a current assessment of how this vision has been realized. Three themes related to both persistent questions and emergent horizons in archaeological GIS are explored in the context of the contributions. We present our own set of ideas for how to unbind our analyses from some of the methodological and conceptual constraints inherent in the analytic GIS approaches on which we have long relied to explore past landscapes. We argue it is important to keep moving beyond analytic approaches tethered to discrete points, to push forward geospatial modeling of cultural processes across entire landscapes, and to incorporate uncertainty and iteration directly into our work. Through such efforts, we can develop robust insights into the ways past communities considered, reconfigured, and renewed patterns of social, economic, and ideological interaction, flow, and circulation through the variegated landscapes they inhabited. In doing this, we will get closer to realizing the ambitious vision early pioneers had for archaeological GIS e a technology they believed could let us ask entirely new questions about the past.
Trends and Problems in Archaeological GIS Applications
Abstract: Archaeology counts two decades of GIS applications. In terms of theory and practice it is time to evaluate GIS methods and explore ideas about future advancements. Two distinct research trends have been developed in Archaeology until now: landscape studies and intra-site applications. Each field still bears unresolved problems. In this paper we attempt a description of the major problems within these fields from an archaeological viewpoint and try to categorize them under three important notions that in our view should become of central focus in future research: Ontology, Visualization and Time. Key-Words: GIS applications, Archaeology, Intra-site, Landscape, Ontology, Visualization, Time
in M. Forte (ed.), The Reconstruction of Archaeological Landscapes through Digital Technologies. Proceedings of the 2nd Italy-United States Workshop, Rome, Italy, November 3-5, 2003 Berkeley, USA, 2005
Verhagen, P. (2017). Spatial Analysis in Archaeology: Moving into New Territories.
Siart, C., Forbriger, M. and Bubenzer, O. (eds.) Digital Geoarchaeology. New Techniques for Interdisciplinary Human-Environmental Research. Cham, Springer, pp. 11-25., 2017
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.
Review of< i> Archaeology and Geographical Information Systems: A European Perspective
1996
Abstract Although but six years old, our library copy of Interpreting Space: GIS and Archaeology (1990; edited by Allen, Stanton, and Zubrow) is tattered and in need of rebinding. Such has been the interest in this volume and its subject, the adaptation of Geographic Information System (GIs) technology to archaeological needs. Archaeology and Geographical information Systems complements Interpreting Space in several ways.