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Course Schedule
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| 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). |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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). |
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| 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 |
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| Feb. 23 | Air photo interpretation |
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| 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 |
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| 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. |
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| 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". |
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| Mar. 30 | Spatial analysis |
Using ARC
GRID's PATHDISTANCE Function to Model Catchment Zones for Archaeological
Sites on the Madaba Plain, Jordan What's Eligible
Here? Field Testing
ARC GRID-Based Archaeological Using GIS
to Model and Predict Likely Archaeological Sites |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Apr.27 | The NC Archaeological Predictive Modeling Project | NCDOT GIS Project Presentation : http://www.informatics.org/ncdot |
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| May 4 | Student Project Presentations, discussion, and course feedback in 404 Alumni |
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