A human-centered GIS approach to modeling mobility on southern Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada
| Autor: | Jeffrey P. Stup, Douglas R. Stenton, Rachel E. ten Bruggencate, Robert W. Park, S. Brooke Milne, Mostafa Fayek |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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010506 paleontology
Archeology Watershed Resource (biology) 060102 archaeology media_common.quotation_subject Elevation 06 humanities and the arts Land cover 15. Life on land 01 natural sciences Archaeology Scarcity Geography Arctic 0601 history and archaeology 0105 earth and related environmental sciences media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Field Archaeology. 41:684-698 |
| ISSN: | 2042-4582 0093-4690 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/00934690.2016.1234897 |
| Popis: | Southern Baffin Island has been occupied for several millennia, but its enormous size, coupled with scarcity of identified inland archaeological sites that can be confidently linked to coastal occupations, makes modeling ancient seasonal mobility across the region through traditional cost-surface least-cost pathway approaches impractical. We present a method that combines weighted multi-criteria cost surface analysis with a watershed function to create a “mobility-shed” of non-winter travel pathways covering the study area. We evaluate the predictive utility of the resulting pathways for future archaeological survey by assessing their spatial relationships to known archaeological sites. The results of this comparison suggest that elevation and land cover criteria should be augmented with ethnographic and resource availability data to model mobility in this region. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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