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Ch 4 GIS

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SunoikisisDC Digital Approaches to Cultural Heritage, Spring 2023

Session 4: Geographical Information Systems

Thursday February 9, 2023, starting at 16:00 GMT = 17:00 CET (for 90 minutes)

Convenors: Justin Colson (University of London), Julia Tzvetkova (Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”)

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Seminar readings

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Further reading

  • Murrieta-Flores, P., C. Donaldson, and I. Gregory. 2017. “GIS and Literary History: Advancing Digital Humanities research through the Spatial Analysis of historical travel writing and topographical literature.” Digital Humanities Quarterly 11. Available: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/11/1/000283/000283.html
  • Seifried, R.M. and C.A.M. Gardner. 2019. "Reconstructing historical journeys with least-cost analysis: Colonel William Leake in the Mani Peninsula, Greece." Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 24:391-411. Pre-print available: https://works.bepress.com/rebecca-seifried/11/
  • Bonnier, A., M. Finné, and E. Weiberg. 2019. "Examining Land-Use through GIS-Based Kernel Density Estimation: A Re-Evaluation of Legacy Data from the Berbati-Limnes Survey." Journal of Field Archaeology 44(2):70-83. Available: https://doi.org/10.1080/00934690.2019.1570481
  • Donaldson, C., I.N. Gregory, and J.E. Taylor. 2017. "Locating the beautiful, picturesque, sublime and majestic: spatially analysing the application of aesthetic terminology in descriptions of the English Lake District." Journal of Historical Geography 56:43-60. Available: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305748817300178
  • Field, S., C. Heitman, and H. Richards-Rissetto. 2019. “A Least Cost Analysis: Correlative Modeling of the Chaco Regional Road System.” Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology 2(1):136-150. Available: https://doi.org/10.5334/jcaa.36
  • Rayne, L., J. Bradbury, D. Mattingly, G. Philip, R. Bewley, and A. Wilson. 2017. "From Above and on the Ground: Geospatial Methods for Recording Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa." Geosciences 7(4):100. Available: https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences7040100
  • Richards-Rissetto, H. 2017. "An iterative 3D GIS analysis of the role of visibility in ancient Maya landscapes: A case study from Copan, Honduras." Digital Scholarship in the Humanities 32(S2):ii195–ii212. Available: https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqx014
  • Turchetto, J. and G. Salemi. 2017. “Hide and Seek. Roads, Lookouts and Directional Visibility Cones in Central Anatolia.” Open Archaeology 3:69-82. Available: https://doi.org/10.1515/opar-2017-0004
  • Weiss, C. 2010. "Determining Function of Pompeian Sidewalk Features through GIS Analysis." In: Frischer, B., J. Webb Crawford, and D. Koller (eds.) Making History Interactive. Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA). Proceedings of the 37th International Conference, Williamsburg, Virginia, United States of America, March 22-26 2009. BAR International Series S2079. Archaeopress, Oxford, pp. 363-372. Available: http://proceedings.caaconference.org/files/2009/43_Weiss_CAA2009.pdf

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