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The potential and limits of optimal path analysis

·2016·Computational Approaches to Archaeological Spaces
DOI 10.4324/9781315431932-14
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In the last two decades an increasing number of archaeological least-cost path (LCP) studies have been published. In nearly all these publications, the aim has been to reconstruct ancient routes and route networks (for example, Fábrega Álvarez and Parcero Oubiña, 2007; Verhagen and Jeneson, 2012) or to identify the principal factors governing the construction of known roads or road segments (for instance, Bell and Lock, 2000; Kantner and Hobgood, 2003). Sometimes LCPs help to identify locations which hold a central position in a territory: in the example of Hare (2004), a site is at a crossroads of intra-and extra-valley LCPs and all north-south connections between major settlements pass through that site. LCP analysis recently has become part of the predictive modeling toolkit in American archaeology (Whitley and Burns, 2008). Such models are based on the assumptions that the initial travel arteries were created by migratory herbivore travel and that the early hunters followed herds of these animals; subsequently, subsistence and settlement patterns developed in connection with these first routes.

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Computational Approaches to Archaeological Spaces
Publisher
Routledge
Published
2016-06-16
Pages
187-220
DOI
10.4324/9781315431932-14
OpenAlex
W2919322796
Semantic Scholar
643fa5a6cfd9a2ef4274bd3fa8c93f01aa96b5b9
Cited by
57
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1
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27.93
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book chapter
Language
en
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closed
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Topics
  • Social Sciences › Archeology › Archaeological Research and Protection
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Archeology (arts and humanities) › Archaeological and Geological Studies
  • Social Sciences › Urban Studies › Urban Design and Spatial Analysis
Keywords
least-cost path analysis, route network, road construction, settlement location, predictive modeling, hunter-gatherer mobility

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