No open-access location is known for this record yet.
No open-access location is known for this record yet.
In terms of better understanding the distribution of objects and sites within an archaeological landscape, researchers tend to rely upon the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS). GIS is a system that supports in a geodatabase allows analyses and manipulates geographical information layers. The possibility of overlaying different thematic layers, such as historic, geological, or sedimentological, in the same coordinate system, allows you to carry out powerful analysis and find consistent results. In the case of understanding landscape patterns from the distribution of rock art sites, the spatial analysis GIS considers the layers that are aligned to the chronological development of a given rock art assemblage; say from the naturalistic fauna of the Upper Palaeolithic (Layer 1) to the Schematic art of the Neolithic and Bronze Age (Layer 2 and 3). In this chapter, we discuss a non-exhaustive use of GIS in rock art studies highlighting how we make use of such a powerful desk-based tool in better understanding rock art sites, with software GIS application for archaeological-based landscape research.
Loading…
Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.