
Marcos LloberaUniversity of Washington | UW · Department of Anthropology
Marcos Llobera
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11 12 This study describes a methodology to uncover activity patterns obtained through surface survey. More 13 specifically, we present a way to elicit and interpret pottery surface assemblages from Mallorca's Late 14 Iron Age, the Balearic Period (550-1 BCE) recovered during the 2014-18 seasons of the Landscape, 15 Encounters and Identity Archaeol...
Landscape archaeologists rely on the use of least-cost paths to explore and reconstruct movement patterns in the past. An important factor seldom incorporated in these studies is the possibility of earlier paths influencing later ones. This is due, in no small part, to the inability of current least-cost path algorithms to incorporate such an effec...
Visibility has always played a role in archaeological investigations. Visibility modeling has only been possible since the advent of computing in archaeology, thanks primarily to the use of geographical information systems (GIS). For the most part, visibility modeling has been approached as part of investigating the locational preferences of people...
Digital information is nowadays pervasive to all aspects of archeology. Despite its ubiquity, many archaeologists still regard with some (or much!) suspicion studies that rely on the manipulation of digital representations questioning whether they have epistemic value and/or are appropriate within certain theoretical frameworks. In this paper I hop...
This paper provides a personal account of the challenges of developing digital methods within an interpretive landscape archaeology framework. It reviews current criticisms leveled against the use of model-based tools, e.g., GIS-based, within this framework. Currently, the absence of, or distance between, methods and theory is considered to be an i...
This paper reviews and evaluates the potential use of modern visualization techniques in archaeology. It suggests the need
to apply and develop such techniques as a central part of any modern archaeological investigation. The use of these methods
is associated with wider questions about data representations, in particular, their integration with ar...
The aim of this paper is to extend the range of current analytical procedures that archaeologists use to understand movement. In particular, how a landscape becomes ordered by simply defining a destination. More specifically, this study proposes the derivation of a focal mobility network, i.e. the network of most likely paths towards a given destin...
Much of western North America saw higher temperatures and lower precipitation during the middle Holocene. The Great Basin became much drier and warmer than it is today, causing major shifts in lake levels, treelines, plant community composition, and vertebrate distributions and abundances. To assess the impact of climate change on middle-Holocene h...
Although Corsica is the fourth-largest island in the Mediterranean, its archaeology is internationally less well known than that of many smaller Mediterranean islands. La Balagne Landscape Project (LBLP) was initiated to redress this situation but also, for the first time in Corsica, to undertake a surface survey in order systematically to recover...
This paper describes a method of calculating the inherent visibility at all locations in a landscape (‘total viewshed’) by
making use of redundant computer cycles. This approach uses a simplified viewshed program that is suitable for use within a
distributed environment, in this case managed by the Condor system. Distributing the calculation in thi...
Human and animal trails on steep hillsides often exhibit dramatic switchbacks and shortcuts. Helbing et al. have recently examined the emergence of human trail systems on flat terrains while Minetti and Margaria established the effect of gradients on human metabolic efficiency. In this paper we use these ideas to develop a semi-quantitative theoret...
The calculation of visibility patterns associated with past monuments and sites is an important element in modern landscape archaeology. These types of investigations have been limited by the inability of current viewshed routines to incorporate vegetation information. The following paper presents a new viewshed algorithm aimed at calculating the p...
The following paper reiterates the importance of studying past visibility patterns within the context of landscape archaeology. In spite of the many difficulties and criticisms revolving around this topic, efforts aimed at reconstructing these patterns and exploring their possible roles are considered to be central to the reconstruction of social l...
A Geographical Information System (GIS) is used to retrieve and explore the spatial properties of the visual structure inherent in space. The first section of the article aims to gather, compare and contrast existing approaches used to study visual space and found in disciplines such as landscape architecture, urbanism, geography and landscape arch...
This papers tries to illustrate the exploratory use of GIS within the context of landscape research in archaeology. Current landscape approaches incorporate important theoretical advancements which have made archaeologists sensitive to the subtleties of human space but these developments have not been matched by advances in method. The paper focuse...
The later-prehistoric linear ditches that divide the chalk landscape of Wessex, south England, are markers in an area. It is a topographic space. The ditches seem to be placed with a view to their visibility in the landscape. It is a human topographic space. A GIS study of the ditches' place, in terms of what a human sees in moving acros undulating...
Book description: 'Geographical information science' is not merely a technical subject but also poses theoretical questions on the nature of geographic representation and whether there exist limits on the ability of GI systems to deal with certain objects and issues. This book presents the debate surrounding technical GIS and theory of representati...
BLDSC reference no.: D206942. Thesis (D. Phil.)--University of Oxford, 1999.