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Geographical Information Systems in Archaeology
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Geographical Information Systems has moved from the domain of the computer specialist into the wider archaeological community, providing it with an exciting new research method. This clearly written but rigorous book provides a comprehensive guide to that use. Topics covered include: the theoretical context and the basics of GIS; data acquisition including database design; interpolation of elevation models; exploratory data analysis including spatial queries; statistical spatial analysis; map algebra; spatial operations including the calculation of slope and aspect, filtering and erosion modeling; methods for analysing regions; visibility analysis; network analysis including hydrological modeling; the production of high quality output for paper and electronic publication; and the use and production of metadata. Offering an extensive range of archaeological examples, it is an invaluable source of practical information for all archaeologists, whether engaged in cultural resource management or academic research. This is essential reading for both the novice and the advanced user.
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This is the introductory chapter of a manual on GIS in archaeology, arguing that GIS is one powerful tool among many and that its appropriate use requires awareness of the theoretical concepts of space embedded in it. It reviews the philosophical debate over space and the parallel debate over whether GIS is a "tool" or a "science," then traces how archaeological GIS has moved from common-sense narrative through scientific explanation toward post-processual concerns.
Key findings
- Two philosophical concepts of space are argued to map onto GIS data models: the absolute ("container") concept fits the continuous field model and raster DEMs, while the relative concept has "some affinity" with the entity model and vector maps — though the authors caution that raster and vector are data structures, not data models, and either can represent the other.
- Spatial languages (geometries) differ in specificity: topology cannot measure distance or area and suits relative space and stratigraphic relations (e.g. the Harris matrix), whereas Euclidean geometry is metric and supports more meaningful questions, such as measuring areas covered by deposits.
- The chapter traces archaeological GIS through three modes: "common-sense" narrative (e.g. Gaffney and Stančič 1991, 1992, who showed Roman towers on Hvar are intervisible but did not test whether this arose by chance), scientific explanation (Kvamme 1993; van Leusen 1993; Wheatley 1995, 1996 using a one-sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov test; Fisher et al. 1997 on control samples and causality), and post-processual critique.
- Three strands of post-processual thought are reviewed: how we learn about the past (phenomenology; the charge that GIS perpetuates Haraway's "God trick"), what we study (meaning and symbolism versus environmental determinism), and the "otherness" of the past (Thomas 2004 questioning how far a microprocessor can facilitate experiential archaeology).
Methods
- This is a theoretical and introductory review chapter, not an empirical study; it presents no dataset, sample, or statistical analysis of its own.
- It synthesises philosophical literature on space (Harvey, Popper, Kant, Newton), GIS data-model literature (Burrough and McDonnell 1998; Couclelis 1992; Worboys 1995), and a body of archaeological GIS case studies to frame the book's practical chapters.
- The chapter also outlines the book's structure, mapping chapters to tasks such as data acquisition (Chapters 4–5), surface generation (Chapter 6), analysis (Chapters 7–11), presentation (Chapter 12), and metadata maintenance (Chapter 13).
Limitations
- Stated: the authors concede that the three strands of post-processual thought they use to organise the discussion "are not so readily separable" in reality, and that they cannot provide instructions for every GIS software package, offering only some package-specific examples.
- Stated: they note that the earliest research-orientated archaeological GIS studies are treated only briefly and that a fuller treatment of visibility studies appears elsewhere (Lake and Woodman 2003).
- Evident from the text: as an introductory chapter it advances no testable claims or original data, so its arguments rest on selective citation of prior work rather than systematic review; the "tool versus science" debate is summarised rather than resolved.
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“The tendency of processual archaeology to focus most attention on the ecological and economic dimensions of human existence has been replaced by an emphasis on meaning and symbolism.”
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“From then on there was a clear concern with increasing inferential rigour.”
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“In contrast, a programme of field survey by surface collection is more likely to be predicated on the absolute concept of space and to emphasise relationships that require Euclidean geometry.”
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“Curiously, the earliest research-orientated archaeological GIS studies generally mirrored the 'common-sense' approach of 'traditional' archaeology (Aldenderfer 1996)”
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“the authors did not attempt to support it by, for example, demonstrating that intervisibility is unlikely to have occurred by chance alone and was not a byproduct of some other favourable attribute.”
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“Since the mid 1990s European archaeological GIS practitioners have been particularly concerned that the use of GIS has, whether intentionally (Wheatley 1993, p. 133) or otherwise (Gaffney et al. 1996, p. 132), encouraged the continuation or even re-introduction of a positivist approach that had otherwise been rejected by post-processual archaeology.”
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“This, however, risks replacing a determinism based on one suite of environmental variables with a determinism based on another.”
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“The most problematic is that modern GIS packages offer users a variety of powerful tools that are easily applied, without providing much guidance on their appropriateness for the data or questions at hand.”
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“For instance, the single context recording system used on many deeply stratified urban excavations is essentially predicated on the relative concept of space and emphasises topological relations.”
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“there has been much debate in geography about whether GIS constitutes a 'tool' or a 'science' (Wright et al. 1997)”
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“As will become clear in Chapter 2, the location descriptor is what sets GIS apart from other database systems.”
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“metadata are of vital importance, as the investment in creating a GIS will soon be wasted without them.”
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“In our view it does, both for the use of GIS to record archaeological evidence and for its subsequent use to analyse that evidence in the hope of learning about the past.”
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“His work was subsequently further refined by Fisher et al. (1997), who emphasised that the mere existence of an association between human activity and one or more environmental variables does not in itself provide adequate evidence of a causal relationship.”
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“Indeed, one of the most notable features of topological geometries is that they do not allow one to measure distance or area.”
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“The two principal data models used in GIS to describe how these should be linked to some extent mirror the two philosophical concepts of space.”
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“This approach represents a significant break with positivist models of inference, eschewing expert explanation based on the results of statistical tests in favour of multiple understandings, each potentially unique to a particular participant.”
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“The requirements of the two different archaeological problems just outlined will best be met using different models of space: the entity model in the first case and the relative model in the second, which in turn suggests the creation of vector and raster maps, respectively”
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“Any kind of spatial analysis, whether formal or informal, is ultimately predicated on a concept of space.”
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“Geographical information systems require two descriptors to describe the real world: attribute records what is present while location records where it is (Worboys 1995).”
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“Since the continuous field model organises information by a set of predetermined locations in space it can be considered to fit quite closely with the philosophical absolute concept of space.”
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“Western thought has been dominated by two main philosophical ideas about the nature of space, one of which views it as a container and the other as a relation between things.”
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“In contrast, the second critique initially appears less tractable, as it questions the very use of computer methods.”
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“Topology distinguishes spatial objects that should be considered different on account of the way in which they relate to their neighbours and, for that reason, it has a close affinity with the relative model of space.”
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“However, artificial intelligence researchers, including many specialists in sociological simulation, are actively moving beyond traditional computational theory of mind and tackling issues such as the social construction of emotions (Cañamero and de Velde 2000) and the idea that cognition is not somehow separate from engagement with the world (Maris and te Boekhorst 1996).”
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“At the root of his doubt is the well-known critique of computational theory of mind (Dreyfus 1972; Searle 1992), which argues that traditional artificial intelligence and computational methods simply do not capture the real nature of thinking and knowledge.”
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“much archaeological research conducted since the 1970s has been conducted in processual vein, that is, broadly predicated on the assumption that the methods of the natural sciences can be used to explain the subject matter of the social sciences.”
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“Euclidean geometry has long been associated with the absolute concept of space.”
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“The entity model has some affinity to the philosophical relative concept of space, at least to the extent that it organises information by entity rather than by a set of predetermined locations in space.”
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“Archaeological users of GIS have made suggestions that may go some way to addressing the first of these critiques.”
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GIS has matured to the point where non-specialists can use relatively user-friendly software to solve real archaeological problems.
“The study of geographical information systems (GIS) has now matured to the point where non-specialists can take advantage of relatively user-friendly software to help them solve real archaeological problems.”
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The application of methods like creating an elevation model from widely spaced contour lines is likely to produce highly unsatisfactory results and interpretative errors.
“none that we know of would warn that the application of this method to widely spaced contours is likely to produce highly unsatisfactory results that could lead to a host of interpretative errors further down the line.”
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Researchers who become overdependent on the data management abilities of GIS may shy away from tackling more analytical questions.
“there is a risk that researchers who become overdependent on the data management abilities of GIS may shy away from tackling more analytical questions simply because it is not immediately obvious which buttons to push.”
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“By calculating and storing conductivity from each raster cell to all other adjacent raster cells based on a usersupplied function, both isotropic (conductivity neither benefited nor hindered by direction) and anisotropic costs (conductivity is direction-dependent) can be incorporated into the LCP analysis (Conolly & Lake, 2006, pp. 217-221;Wheatley & Gillings, 2002, pp. 137-140).”
From Probabilistic modelling for incorporating uncertainty in least cost path results: a postdictive roman road case study (2021) · cites this paper as Conolly & Lake, 2006
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“To avoid corner-connected cells with high costs surrounded by cells of low friction [Conolly and Lake 2006: 216], buffers for linear features like the water courses were computed before converting them to raster format [Herzog 2013b].”
From Issues in replication and stability of least-cost path calculations (2022) · cites this paper as Conolly and Lake 2006: 216
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§ Recording the evidence
“In contrast, a programme of field survey by surface collection is more likely to be predicated on the absolute concept of space”
§ Recording the evidence
“The requirements of the two different archaeological problems just outlined will best be met using different models of space: the entity model in the first case and the relative model in the second”
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