conference paper
Setting up a “Human Calibrated” Anisotropic Cost Surface for Archaeological Landscape Investigation
- Title
- Setting up a “Human Calibrated” Anisotropic Cost Surface for Archaeological Landscape Investigation
- Editor(s)
- Stančič, Z.
- Veljanovski, T.
- Date
- 2001
- Is Part Of
- Computing Archaeology for Understanding the Past.
- Pages
- 279 - 288
- Language
- eng
- Publisher
- ArchaeoPress
- Place Published
- Oxford
- Abstract
- This paper presents an application of GIS tools for investigating one aspect of the archaeological landscape: movement through it. The authors would like to provide an experimental procedure to obtain cost surfaces related to human movement in a given geographical area, taking into consideration a settlement perspective. This research mainly focuses on the insertion of the concept of round trip movement from a given location in a calculation of cost surface through the adaptation of one function available in the literature - related to human energy cost. After the explication of the procedure, the results and possible implications of this application are discussed using the Biferno Valley (Molise, Italy) as a case study.
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