Multiple pathways across past landscapes: circuit theory as a complementary geospatial method to least cost path for modeling past movement

Howey, Meghan C.L.

doi:10.1016/j.jas.2011.03.024

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Multiple pathways across past landscapes: circuit theory as a complementary geospatial method to least cost path for modeling past movement

Howey, Meghan C.L.·2011·Journal of Archaeological Science

DOI 10.1016/j.jas.2011.03.024

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The incorporation of geospatial technologies in archaeology has resulted in productive advances in the analysis of past behavioral processes. Archaeologists have relied on the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) application of cost surface analysis and the computation of least cost paths (LCP) to study movement, one key social process. Recent research has identified limitations with LCP for modeling nonhuman species movement, notably the inability of LCP to accommodate multiple pathways. Archaeology must consider the implications of these critiques for models of past human movement. In this paper, I apply a different approach, circuit theory modeling, enacted through the program Circuitscape, to an archaeological case study previously analyzed with LCP modeling, travel to a regionally significant ceremonial earthwork center during Late Prehistory (ca. AD 1200–1600) in the Northern Great Lakes. Through this comparative analysis, I evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of these methods for modeling past movement. The results suggest LCP modeling and circuit modeling offer archaeology complementary geospatial methods for conceptualizing past mobility. Combining circuit theory and LCP allows archaeologists to produce richer models of past movement by appreciating scenarios where multiple pathways are important as well as scenarios where optimum single travel routes have priority.

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Archaeologists have explored defining corridors of movement on the basis of cost surfaces as a more fuzzy and possibly more realistic approach to reconstructing and predicting ancient movement patterns.
“Therefore, archaeologists have also explored the possibility of defining corridors of movement on the basis of cost surfaces, as a more fuzzy and possibly more realistic approach to reconstructing and predicting ancient movement patterns (e.g.Howey 2011;Murrieta-Flores 2012;Van Lanen et al. 2015a;Howey and Brouwer Burg 2017).”
From Modelling of pathways and movement networks in archaeology: an overview of current approaches (2019) · cites this paper as Howey 2011
Circuit Theory has been applied to a number of archaeological case studies.
“In fact, CT has been applied to a number of archaeological case studies (Domingo Ribas, 2018;Howey, 2011;Thayn et al., 2016).”
From A spatial connectivity approach to landscapes of conflict: julius caesar and the assault to puig ciutat (NE iberian peninsula) (2022) · cites this paper as Howey, 2011
Slope generally has not been the single decisive factor in past movement through the landscape.
“However, slope generally has not been the single decisive factor in past movement through the landscape (Howey, 2011).”
From Finding vanished routes: applying a multi-modelling approach on lost route and path networks in the veluwe region, the Netherlands (2018) · cites this paper as Howey, 2011
Landscape connectivity models are widely used in ecology to understand habitat connectivity and species movement and have been applied to model human mobility potential in archaeological contexts.
“Landscape connectivity models are widely used in ecology to understand habitat connectivity and species movement (e.g.Beier et al. 2011;Chetkiewicz, St. Clair, and Boyce 2006;Crooks and Sanjayan 2006;Rayfield, Fortin, and Fall 2011;Taylor et al. 1993) and have been applied to model human mobility potential in archaeological contexts (e.g.Howey 2011; Howey and Burg 2017;Kempf 2020;Kohut 2018).”
From Counter-Mapping Maroon Cartographies: GIS and Anticolonial Modeling in St. Croix (2023) · cites this paper as Howey 2011
New ways of modelling ancient movement that look beyond LCPs to explore multiple optimal routes or the range of probable routes between points have been proposed, such as those utilizing circuit theory, flow accumulation, focal mobility networks, or Monte Carlo simulation.
“new ways of modelling ancient movement that look beyond LCPs to explore multiple optimal routes or the range of probable routes between points have come to be proposed, such as those utilizing circuit theory (”
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Authors: Howey, M. C. L.
Affiliations: University of New Hampshire (US)
Corresponding author: Howey, Meghan C.L.
ORCID: Howey, Meghan C.L.
Venue: Journal of Archaeological Science
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Published: 2011-10
Volume: 38
Issue: 10
Pages: 2523-2535
ISSN: 0305-4403 (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2011.03.024
OpenAlex: W2023132642
Cited by: 168
References: 55
Citations by year: 2026: 11 · 2025: 11 · 2024: 17 · 2023: 11 · 2022: 14 · 2021: 33 · 2020: 11 · 2019: 16 · 2018: 8 · 2017: 6 · 2016: 12 · 2015: 5 · 2014: 7 · 2013: 2 · 2012: 3
FWCI: 10.63
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Licence: www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
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Locations: Journal of Archaeological Science (publishedVersion)
University of New Hampshire Scholars Repository (University of New Hampshire at Manchester) (submittedVersion)
Funders: National Science Foundation
Topics: Social Sciences › Archeology › Archaeological Research and Protection
Social Sciences › Urban Studies › Urban Design and Spatial Analysis
Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Archeology (arts and humanities) › Archaeological and Geological Studies
Keywords: circuit theory, least-cost path, Circuitscape, Late Prehistory, travel routes

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