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In the Gallina district, it is still unclear whether the violence originated with domestic (i.e. local) or foreign agents. This analysis will begin with a brief review of the relevant archaeology of the Gallina area. Following this, I set... more
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      ArchaeologyAnthropologySpatial AnalysisMaterial Culture Studies
Filet, Clara. 2021. « Dynamiques d’urbanisation et réseaux d’interactions dans le monde celtique transalpin (IVe – Ier s. BCE) ». Thèse de doctorat, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, 747 p. Urbanisation dynamics and interaction... more
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      Mobility (Archaeology)Late Iron Age (Archaeology)UrbanisationLeast Cost Path Analysis
The surrounding landscape of ancient Pergamon is characterized by several mountain ranges, the Bakırçay Valley and River and the Aegean coastline. The accessibility of this region was vital for the city since it provided food and... more
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      Landscape ArchaeologyArchaeological GISHellenistic and Roman Asia MinorGIS and Landscape Archaeology
Connectivity and dispersal are key components determining the persistence of fragmented populations. However, the assessment of dispersal rates and landscape factors affecting functional connectivity remains problematic for species living... more
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      Landscape geneticsBiological SciencesLeast Cost Path AnalysisBiological Conservation
Research on the prehistoric and proto-historic landscape in Sardinia (Italy) allows knowledge and analysis of the island's archaeological heritage. Besides, recent studies have aimed to delineate the type of relationship that the... more
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      Multivariate StatisticsLandscape ArchaeologySardinia (Archaeology)Bronze Age Europe (Archaeology)
Anthropologically, we know that paths and trails across mountain landscapes play important social roles as well as being navigable routes between places. To know a path well enough to traverse mountain ranges safely means the traveler has... more
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      Hunter-Gatherer ArchaeologyLeast Cost Path AnalysisMountain ArchaeologyRocky Mountain Archaeology
Nearest neighbor settlement relationships are methodically analyzed in network connection diagrams with the use of Delaunay triangulation in this GIS-based study. Probable routes by land and river are calculated with lost cost path... more
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      Network AnalysisArchaeological GISArchaeology of Germanic tribes (Roman period)Least Cost Path Analysis
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      Media StudiesLate Antique and Byzantine HistoryMedieval HistoryDromography (Historic Routes History)
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      Landscape ArchaeologyCultural LandscapesArchaeological GISRoman roads
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      Hunters, Fishers and Gatherers' ArchaeologyLithicsUpper PaleolithicHunter-Gatherers (Anthropology)
This vignette aims at showing the use of the current version of the movecost package and of its functions. To hopefully enhance clarity, it is organised as a sequence of tasks. In-built datasets will be used throughout this document. For... more
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      Statistical ComputingGIS and Landscape ArchaeologyLeast Cost Path AnalysisGeographic Information Systems (GIS)
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      Pilgrimage RoutesEarly Medieval ArchaeologyMedieval ArchaeologyBronze Age (Archaeology)
Mapping ancient roads is crucial to tell credible geospatial stories about where, how, or why different people might have travelled or transported materials within and between places in the distant past. Achieving this process is... more
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      ArchaeologyOpen Source GIS (Geographic Information Systems)Etruscan ArchaeologyLeast Cost Path Analysis
Projections of Paleoindian range mobility in the late Pleistocene are typically inferred from straight-line distances between toolstone sources and sites where artifacts of these raw materials have been found. Often, however, these... more
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      PaleoindiansLate Pleistocene to Early HoloceneLeast Cost Path AnalysisLithic Raw Material Sourcing
Least Cost Path (LCP) analysis has been thought of as being environmentally deterministic, with an overemphasis of environmental factors on cultural activity (Gaffney and van Leusen, 1995; Taliaferro et al., 2010; van Leusen, 1999). Due... more
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      ArchaeologyLandscape ArchaeologyRomanian StudiesArchaeological GIS
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Die 'Arbeitsgemeinschaft Computeranwendungen und Quantitative Methoden in der Archäologie' (AG CAA) veranstaltet jährlich einen gleichnamigen Workshop, der 2013 an der Freien Universität Berlin stattfand. Die Aufsätze zeigen, dass... more
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      3D Laser scanning (Architecture)3D Modelling (Architecture)Digital Photogrammetry applied to ArchaeologyStructure from Motion
Each model of past movement based on the historical and archaeological evidence nowadays relies implicitly or explicitly on a cost function estimating costs of movement in terms of time, calories or some other currency for the study area... more
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      Least Cost Path AnalysisSite Catchment Analysis
An important and frequently used tool in archaeological spatial analysis is least-cost path (LCP) analysis with the aim of computing routes connecting a set of targets. The outcome depends on the cost model chosen and the topographic data... more
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      Landscape ArchaeologyLeast Cost Path Analysis
The use of GIS tools to explore questions related to movement in archaeological contexts has been common in the last years. Least Cost Paths (LCP) have been especially successful among them, most often with the objective of predicting or... more
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      Archaeological GISRoman roadsMobility (Archaeology)Least Cost Path Analysis
The paper provides an overview on Big-DEA, a multidisciplinary project aimed at developing a comprehensive multi-level explanatory model for the development of an archaic State in the ancient Near East, using the exceptional case of Tell... more
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      Near Eastern ArchaeologyLandscape ArchaeologyLevantine ArchaeologyEblaite (Languages and Linguistics)
This chapter presents and discusses current approaches and trends in computer-based modelling of pathways and movement networks in archaeology. After an introduction to the theoretical concepts involved, we present a state of the art of... more
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      Landscape ArchaeologyNetwork AnalysisLeast Cost Path AnalysisGIS Applications in Archaeology
Accessibility to fresh water, fertile soils, salt and other natural resources played an important role in prehistory. Accessibility is often determined in relation to target locations, for example a fresh water supply. The target... more
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      Spatial analysis (Archaeology)Least Cost Path AnalysisKernel Density EstimationKernel Density Estimation
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      Archaeological GISLeast Cost Path AnalysisEastern North American Archaeology
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and remote sensing, archaeology, and ethnohistory are used to study the Cuzco to Vilcashuaman portion of the Chinchaysuyu Inka Road. The purpose of this analysis is to determine whether the... more
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      Andean ArchaeologyInca ArchaeologyLeast Cost Path AnalysisHIGHWAY ROADS AND BRIDGES
The application of least-cost analysis (LCA) in archaeology has considerably increased in recent years. Modern Geographical Information Systems provide the tools for generating least-cost site catchments, least-cost paths and route... more
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      Spatial AnalysisLeast Cost Path Analysis
This article deals with methodological issues connected with least-cost path (LCP) calculations in archaeology. The number of LCP studies in archaeology has increased rapidly during the last couple of years, but not all of the approaches... more
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      Spatial AnalysisLeast Cost Path Analysis
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      Mycenaean era archaeologyLeast Cost Path AnalysisArchaeology of RoadsMinoan and Mycenaean economy and administration
This paper uses Least Cost Path (LCP) analysis to explore travel routes between the Gulf Coast and Soconusco regions of Mexico. LCP results are compared between the two regions during the late Early Formative period (1400-1000 cal BC)... more
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      Mesoamerican ArchaeologyOlmec archaeologyFormative MesoamericaLeast Cost Path Analysis
In this paper, we present a new method for modeling past maritime movement events using least cost path analysis. Nontraditional measures of movement cost, including cultural, environmental, and physiological variables, were calculated.... more
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      Least Cost Path AnalysisPacific Northwest Coast archaeologyGeographic Information Systems (GIS)
Due to the proliferation of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software and the improvement of graphic user interfaces, least-cost analysis has become one of the most common tools in archaeological research for modelling movement across... more
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      Historical ArchaeologyLandscape ArchaeologyTravel LiteratureGreece
We need maximum slope values for carts and pack animals to model the historical traffic of people and goods before the advent of steam and internal combustion engines. With this article, we first calculate maximum slope averages for carts... more
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      Ottoman HistoryOttoman EmpireLeast Cost Path AnalysisTransportation History
Islands and archipelagos have long fascinated humankind. Often viewed as bounded and isolated, given the right conditions and technology, their true nature may be far more complex. Such is case with the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, where a... more
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      Landscape ArchaeologyNeolithic ArchaeologyLeast Cost Path AnalysisScottish Archaeology
Many archaeologists applying GIS software for least-cost studies do not fully understand the functions employed to create least-cost networks, and so they are not aware of the prerequisites and drawbacks of the model implemented by the... more
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      Network AnalysisSpatial analysis (Archaeology)TriangulationLeast Cost Path Analysis
During the ninth through twelfth centuries A.D., Ancestral Pueblo people constructed long, straight roads that interconnected the Chaco regional system across the San Juan Basin of northwestern New Mexico. The intent and use of these... more
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      ArchaeologyRemote sensing and GIS applications in Landscape ResearchArchaeology of the U.S. SouthwestLeast Cost Path Analysis
Despite over a century of archaeological research, fundamental aspects of Teotihuacan's subsistence base and economy remain unverified or untested assumptions. This includes the city's agricultural strategies in terms of preferred crops,... more
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      DemographyArchaeologyWaterTraditional and subsistence agriculture
Cost-surface and least-cost path analyses are widely used tools to understand the ways in which movement relates and engages with the surrounding space. They are employed in research fields as diverse as the analysis of travel corridors,... more
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      R (Statistics)AnisotropyLeast Cost Path AnalysisCost Surface Analysis
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Conference presentation at GISRUK 2018

Awarded CASA Prize for best paper on Spatial Analysis
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      Least Cost Path AnalysisRoman Archaeology
This chapter comprehensively studies the area surrounding a Roman villa in Haushamer Field, Pfaffing, Upper Austria. The research uses non-invasive methods such as surveys and least-cost as well as visibility analysis within a Geographic... more
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      Settlement PatternsArchaeological GISRoman SettlementRoman Villae
Optimal pipeline planning is an emerging problem of the environment and economic development in uneven terrain areas that requires the most sophisticated scientific methods of path analysis. During the planning of the most suitable routes... more
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      Least Cost Path AnalysisOil and Gas PipelineLand Suitability AnalysisAnalytical Hierarchy Process (AHP)
Paper title: Coupling Lithic Sourcing with Least Cost Path Analysis to Model Paleoindian Pathways in Northeastern North America (American Antiquity 83(3), 2018, pp. 462–484) Authors: Jonathan C. Lothrop, Adrian L. Burke, Susan... more
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      GeoarchaeologyNortheastern North America (Archaeology)Lithic TechnologyLeast Cost Path Analysis
Based on Geographic Information Systems (GIS) analysis, this paper examines the visibility characteristics and movement patterns between the later prehistoric hilltop enclosures in the Strathdon area, Aberdeenshire.
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      Landscape ArchaeologyLate Iron Age (Archaeology)British ArchaeologyLeast Cost Path Analysis
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      Landscape ArchaeologyLeast Cost Path AnalysisKernel Density Estimation
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      Archaeological GISRoman roadsLeast Cost Path AnalysisGenua
This dissertation uses a comparative approach to investigate long-term human- environment interrelationships in times of climate change. It uses Geographical Information Systems and ecological models to reconstruct the Magdalenian... more
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      Social NetworksSpecies Distribution ModelsSocial Network Analysis (SNA)Agent-based modeling
The present paper is concerned with focal mobility networks, a procedure developed some years ago by Fábrega-Álvarez (2006) in order to explore the location of ancient sites in relation to optimal routes of movement. More specifically,... more
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      Archaeological GISMinoan ArchaeologyArchaeology of CreteLeast Cost Path Analysis
GIS-based digital modelling tools, such as the well-known least cost paths (LCP), have been widely used in archaeology in recent years as ways of approaching forms of mobility in the past. Roman roads are among the best-known examples of... more
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      Archaeological GISRoman roadsLeast Cost Path Analysis
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      Settlement PatternsLiDARMaya ArchaeologyLeast Cost Path Analysis
The initial aim of this project was to test, if boundaries of the Roman administration units in a large part of southern Germany could be approached mathematically based on known central locations and least-cost Thiessen polygon... more
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      Roman roadsLeast Cost Path AnalysisVoronoi Diagrams