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Watchful realms: integrating GIS analysis and political history in the southern Maya lowlands
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In this paper, the authors present a history of travel and exchange in the Buenavista Valley Corridor that vividly reflects the rivalry of two polities and the rise and fall of their nodal settlements.Abstract:
Travellers naturally prefer to use the most passable routes and establish staging points on the way. Cost surface analysis predicts the easiest routes and viewshed analysis the territory visible from a staging point or destination. Applying these GIS techniques to the Buenavista Valley Corridor, our authors write a history of travel and exchange that vividly reflects the rivalry of two polities and the rise and fall of their nodal settlementsread more
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The Memory of Bones: Body, Being, and Experience among the Classic Maya.
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Recentering the rural: Lidar and articulated landscapes among the Maya
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The MayaArch3D project: A 3D WebGIS for analyzing ancient architecture and landscapes
Jennifer von Schwerin,Heather Richards-Rissetto,Fabio Remondino,Giorgio Agugiaro,Gabrio Girardi +4 more
TL;DR: This article summarizes the results of a pilot project that started in 2009, with an art historian and an archae- ologist's collaborative research on the ancient Maya kingdom and UNESCO World Heritage site of Copan in Honduras—called MayaArch3D.
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Spatial Technology and Archaeology: The Archaeological Applications of GIS
David Wheatley,Mark Gillings +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an approach for acquiring and integrating data from the Spatial database, including sites, territories, and distances, by using Digital Elevation Models (DEM).
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Geographical Information Systems in Archaeology
James Conolly,Mark Lake +1 more
TL;DR: Conolly and Lake as discussed by the authors present a comprehensive manual on the use of GIS in archaeology and illustrate how it can be adapted for practical use, including issues such as spatial databases, data acquisition, spatial analysis, and techniques of visualization.
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On applying viewshed analysis for determining least-cost paths on Digital Elevation Models
TL;DR: This paper presents the implementations of least-cost paths by integrating viewshed information computed from digital elevation models, and includes four possible types of paths.