Archaeological Geomatics
Anthropology 328

3:30-5:45 PM Wednesdays
Spring Semester 2005

 

Dr. Scott Madry
Research Associate Professor of Anthropology, UNC-CH
Madrys@email.unc.edu
http://www.informatics.org/anthromadry.html


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Course Schedule

 
 Date

 

 Topic

 

  Readings

 

  Lab
  Jan.12
Class introductions + 
Fundamentals of Geomatics (Madry) 

 

 Go here to see the full bib titles

 

 no
 Jan. 19 A review of spatial Analysis in archaeology Willey, Gordon R. 1953, Crumley, C.L. And W.H. Marquardt 1990, Marble, D.F. 1990  (Phillips, P., Ford J.A., and J.A. Griffin 1951 is also very intersteing).

 

 1
 Jan. 26  GIS analysis I Sebastian and Judge: Chapters 1 and 3 (pp. 1-18 and 61-89). In Quantifying the Present and Predicting the Past: Theory, Method and Application of Archaeological Predictive Modeling, edited by W. J. Judge and L. Sebastian, US Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Denver.

 

 2
 Feb 2  GIS analysis II Sebastian and Judge: Chapter 3 (pp. 19-53). In Quantifying the Present and Predicting the Past: Theory, Method and Application of Archaeological Predictive Modeling, edited by W. J. Judge and L. Sebastian, US Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Denver.

 

 3
 Feb. 9 Remote sensing

Madry's work: http://www.informatics.org/france/sat.html "Remote sensing in Burgundy France"

Satellite Remote Sensing in Archaeology: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/mjff/homepage.htm

NASA work: http://www.ghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/archeology/archeology.html

Georgia, USA http://www.arcl.ed.ac.uk/arch/remotesense/georgia/index.html

To learn more on your own, see the excellent NASA's remote sensing tutorial: http://rst.gsfc.nasa.gov/starthere.html (with a chapter by me).

 

 4
 Feb. 16  GPS

http://www.bajr.org/Documents/AShortGuidetoGPS.pdf

http://gge.unb.ca/Personnel/Dare/ION2001NTM.pdf

http://titicaca.ucsb.edu/colca/papers_talks/tripcevich04_ArchRecord4-3.pdf

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sunken/mapping.html

 

 5
 Feb. 23  Air photo interpretation
http://aarg.univie.ac.at/
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hall/3376/archeo31.html
http://www.informatics.org/france/aerial.html
http://www.informatics.org/france/archivair.html

 

4 
 Mar. 2 Historic maps D. Rumsey and M. Williams Historical Maps in GIS, 2002 Pearson, A. and P. Collier 2002 Agricultural History with GIS, Mapping the Ancient World, 2002 Tom Elliot and R. Talbert in: Past time, past place GIS for History, A.K. Knowles, Editor, ESRI Press, Redlands, California http://www.informatics.org/france/maps.html

 

 6
 Mar. 9 GIS analysis of elevation-Viewsheds "Another way to deal with maps in Archaeological GIS" by R. Wiemer, in: Lock and Stancic. "Construction of digital elevation models for archaeological applications" by Hageman and Bennett in: Westcott and Brandon, Ch. 7: . "Cululative viewshed analysis: a GIS-based method for investigating intervisibility , and its archaeological application". By D. Wheatley, cpt 13 of Lock and Stancic.

 

 7
 Mar. 16  (spring break!) (optional!) Hodder, I. and C. Orton 1976. Spatial Analysis in Archaeology. Cambridge University Press. Lock, Session 1 papers 1-2: "Vision, perception, and GIS: developing enriched approaches to the study of archaeological visibility", "Perception and viewsheds: are they mutually inclusive?"   
 Mar. 23  GIS analysis of elevation-Cost surfaces Discuss questions from last lab. Maschner, Ch. 5 and 6: "Line of sight and cost-surface techniques for regional research in the Arroux River Valley", "Site location, landscape visibility and symbolic astronomy: A Scottish case study".

 

8 
 Mar. 30 Spatial analysis

Using ARC GRID's PATHDISTANCE Function to Model Catchment Zones for Archaeological Sites on the Madaba Plain, Jordan
Gary L. Christopherson, Patrick Barabe, Peter S. Johnson
http://gis.esri.com/library/userconf/proc99/proceed/papers/pap590/p590.htm

What's Eligible Here?
Edith H. Konopka, Kinney E. Clark, and Lyna L. Wiggins
http://gis.esri.com/library/userconf/proc01/professional/papers/pap398/p398.htm

Field Testing ARC GRID-Based Archaeological
Probability Models in Jordan
Gary L. Christopherson, Tisha K. Entz
http://gis.esri.com/library/userconf/proc01/professional/papers/pap405/p405.htm

Using GIS to Model and Predict Likely Archaeological Sites
Christopher Ohm Clement, Sahadeb De, Robin Wilson Kloot.
http://gis.esri.com/library/userconf/proc01/professional/papers/pap651/p651.htm

 

 10
 Apr. 6  Spatial and predictive modeling I

http://www.mnmodel.dot.state.mn.us/ (be familiar with the overall website)

Mn/Model is an archaeological predictive model that utilizes GIS to apprise transportation and land-use planners of areas throughout Minnesota that may have a high potential for containing archaeological properties.  

http://www.mnmodel.dot.state.mn.us/pages/research.html Research Design

http://www.mnmodel.dot.state.mn.us/pages/RD_AppB.html Mn/Model Research Design APPENDIX B: MODELING THEORY AND ASSUMPTIONS

http://www.mnmodel.dot.state.mn.us/chapters/chapter8.htm Cpt. 8 Model results and interpretations

http://www.mnmodel.dot.state.mn.us/chapters/chapter9.htm Cpt. 9 PROJECT APPLICATIONS OF MN/MODEL

 

 11
 Apr. 13  Spatial and predictive modeling II

http://modelling.pictographics.com/intro.htm

http://modelling.pictographics.com/method.htm (including pages 2 and 3)

http://srmwww.gov.bc.ca/risc/o_docs/culture/016/

http://www.archeologie.leidenuniv.nl/content_docs/research/dallabona.pdf

 

 12
 Apr.20  Criticisms, the future and more

Interpreting Space, Cpt. 29 by Allen, Green, and Zubrow

Westcott and Brandon, Ch. 8, "The state of the art in "inductive" predictive modeling: Seven big mistakes (and lots of smaller ones)" by Jim Ebert. 

Westcott and Brandon, Ch. 9, GIS Applications in Archaeology: Method in Search of Theory by Church, Brandon, and Burgett

Theory, Technology, and the Future of GIS in Archaeology, by H.D.G Maschner Cpt. 14 in "New Methods, Old Problems, GIS in Modern Archaeological Research

Postscript - GIS, Environmental determinism and archaeology, B. Gaffney and M. van Leusen, in Archaeology and GIS by Lock and Stancic

 

 no lab
 Apr.27  The NC Archaeological Predictive Modeling Project NCDOT GIS Project Presentation : http://www.informatics.org/ncdot

 

13
May 4    Student Project Presentations, discussion, and course feedback in 404 Alumni

 

no lab

 

 


 

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