GIS applications in archaeology

Title: GIS applications in archaeology
Creator(s): Scianna, Andrea; Villa, Benedetto
Date: 2011
Is Part Of: Archeologia e Calcolatori
Volume: 22
Pages: 337–363
Language: eng
Rights: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
URI: http://www.archcalc.cnr.it/journal/id.php?id=600
Zotero BiDiAr: https://www.zotero.org/groups/5293298/bidiar/items/FW4FR8XW/item-list
Abstract: The diffusion of the use of Geographical Information Systems in archaeology has considerably increased in recent years. This multiplicity of applications is due mainly to the growing interest of archaeologists in modern methodologies for the management of archaeological data, surveyed by topographic, photogrammetric and remote sensing techniques. GIS have become a fundamental tool for managing, sharing, analyzing and visualizing spatially referenced data and they are completely substituting the traditional techniques used by archaeologists, based upon filling out forms, graphics and other paper documents. Besides in the modern global society, dominated by mass media such as Internet, the issue of utilization has become more and more important, and most of the more recent GIS applications (Multimedia GIS, WebGIS) take this aspect into consideration.
cited by: Data management and reconstruction of funerary landscape in pre-Roman necropolises between Este and Padova