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The increasing relevance of remote sensing and artificial intelligence (AI) for archaeological research and cultural heritage management is undeniable. However, there is a critical gap in this field. Many studies conclude with identifying hundreds or even thousands of potential sites, but very few follow through with crucial fieldwork validation to...
This paper describes the analysis of the Late Prehispanic rock-art site of Villavil 2 (Catamarca, Argentina). Despite its modest and inconspicuous nature, this is one of the few examples of rock-art sites known in the area to date. The relationship of the site with the surrounding landscape and the distribution of rock art throughout the site are a...
In recent years, digital technologies applied to archaeology have led to considerable changes in fieldwork. However, the use of mobile GIS for fieldwork has not been widespread, especially in countries where GIS is not yet entrenched within the field of archaeology. Over the last decade, the technological context associated with mobile GIS has chan...
Sculpted stone models or maquetas are a distinctive material expression of the inca occupation of the Atacama Desert. In this paper, we characterize a site with stone maquetas located along the Loa River above the town of Chiu-Chiu. Based on its formal attributes, the site can be dated to the Inca period. We consider the site’s internal spatial org...
Sculpted stone models or maquetas are a distinctive material expression of the inca occupation of the Atacama Desert. In this paper, we characterize a site with stone maquetas located along the Loa River above the town of Chiu-Chiu. Based on its formal attributes, the site can be dated to the Inca period. We consider the site’s internal spatial org...
Visibility analysis has become extremely popular in landscape-oriented archaeology in recent decades and has become even more widespread with the popularization of GIS tools, which have multiplied the ways in which visual perception can be analysed and digitally modelled. Visibility has been used as a proxy for different archaeological approaches,...
Se presentan los resultados de los trabajos realizados en el marco de este proyecto durante el año 2015, último año dentro de la convocatoria Proyectos Arqueológicos en el Exterior, del Ministerio de Cultura. A partir de los resultados de los años anteriores, resumidos en distintas publicaciones dentro de esta misma serie, y del plan de trabajo pro...
In this paper we present an overview of the process of mapping and field surveying of an area of ancient fields and irrigation canals around the pre-Hispanic sites of Topaín, Paniri and Turi, in the Andean highlands of northern Chile. As opposed to the usual conditions for prospection in temperate or tropical regions, where the surface visibility o...
Cultural Heritage is a group of resources identified as a reflection of certain val-ues, beliefs, knowledge and tradition by a certain community. These resources are subject to management, preservation and diffusion through legislative and administrative means, which makes cultural heritage fall within the scope of Pro-tected sites, one of the spat...
We present a Cultural Heritage data model built under the European INSPIRE Directive. This model extends the Data Specification on Protected Sites –one of the reference spatial data themes of the INSPIRE Annex I– through the development of cultural issues by means of new classes and attributes. The aim is to achieve an interoperable schema that all...
This paper discusses several interpretative proposals that have been published about the appearance, in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula, of the so called menhir-statues. Initially we review the characterization of these monuments and we analyze the regularity that has led us to consider them as part of the same historic problem. Based on the...
Obtaining models of cultural heritage that guarantee information interoperability and, at the same time, maintain a high degree of fitness to the problem at hand is not a trivial quest. This paper proposes a two-step approach to attain this, where particular models for each problem at hand are derived from a common, standardised Cultural Heritage A...
Resumo O presente trabalho constitui uma aproximação à análise da distribuição das estátuas-menir do Norte de Portugal e Sul da Galiza. A finalidade deste estudo, baseado na aplicação de tec-nologias geo-espaciais, centra-se no desenvolvimento e discussão de uma metodologia que permita contrastar as propostas interpretativas que relacionam a locali...
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...
We present some new finds from Ourense (Galicia), not exactly with archaeological context but some of them surely belonging to a protohistoric origin. We also discuss some questions about regional iron age and explain the process of reutilization in traditional culture.
Se presentan una serie de hallazgos de cultura material en la provincia de Our...
Movement has played a significant role in archaeological analyses of territoriality in recent years. The incorporation of technologies such as GIS has reinforced that role, since they have made it possible to conduct detailed in-depth investigations of the natural constraints for movement. In this paper we describe a procedure developed to explore...
This paper presents the study of two prehistoric stelae recently found in the North of the province of Sevilla (Andalusia, Spain). First, the circumstances of both discoveries are described, as part of the ongoing archaeological research that the University of Sevilla has been carrying out in western Sierra Morena since the late 1980s. Secondly, bo...
This paper presents a study of two prehistoric ‘warrior’ stelae found in the north of the province of Sevilla (Andalusia, Spain) in November 2004. The circumstances of both discoveries – within a clearance cairn – are described, and both are categorised and analysed from various perspectives: their morphology, the symbolism of the figures and weapo...
El trabajo que a continuación se presenta muestra las variaciones del poblamiento y organización del territorio durante la Edad del Hierro en el NW de la Península Ibérica. Partiendo del análisis locacional de los poblados, aplicando una metodología basada en Sistemas de Información Geográfica (SIG), ha sido posible el establecimiento de distintas...
This paper presents the study of two prehistoric stelae recently found in the North of the province of Sevilla (An- dalusia, Spain). First, the circumstances of both discove- ries are described, as part of the ongoing archaeological re- search that the University of Sevilla has been carrying out in western Sierra Morena since the late 1980s. Second...
En la primera parte de este trabajo se desarrolla una propuesta teóricometodológica para el estudio del poblamiento y organización territorial de las sociedades de la Edad del Hierro. Para ello se aplica la Arqueología del Paisaje como estrategia de investigación y un Sistema de Información Geográfica como herramienta de análisis. En la segunda, se...
This paper shows the changes in settlements patterns and territorial organization during the Iron Age I the NW of the Iberian Peninsula. Firstly we analyze the patterns of location of hillforts through a methodology based on Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and we detect different trends. The connection between those location trends and chronol...