Major advances in the use of geographic information systems have been made in both anthropology and archaeology. Yet there are few published discussions of these new applications and their use in solving complex problems. This book explores these techniques, showing how they have been successfully deployed to pursue research previously considered too difficult--or impossible--to undertake. Among the projects described here are studies of land degradation in the Peruvian Amazon, settlement patterns in the Pacific northwest, ethnic distribution within the Los Angeles garment industry, and prehistoric sociopolitical development among the Anasazi. Following an introduction that discusses the theory of geographic information systems in relation to anthropological inquiry, the book is divided into sections demonstrating actual applications in cultural anthropology, archaeology, paleoanthropology, and physical anthropology. The work will be of much interest within all these communities.
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"This volume offers something in which almost every anthropologist or archaeologist should be interested...a valuable addition to the anthropological literature on GIS." --Journal of Anthropological Research
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Mark Aldenderfer is at University of California, Santa Barbara. Herbert D. G. Maschner is at University of Wisconsin.
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digital landscape, coastal landscapes, garment industry, cardinal exposure, paleolandscape approach, cultivated land systems, high mean production, locational modeling, village population size, cumulative viewsheds, linear ditches, spatial autocorrelation measures, beach quality, climatic exposure, ethnic firms, surrounding farmsteads, maize productivity, chambered cairns, rock art panels, surplus agricultural production Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Geographic Information Systems, Peruvian Amazon, Iron Age, San Martin, Madre de Dios, Northern Anasazi Sociopolitical Development, Los Angeles County, Tebenkof Bay, Bronze Age, Analysis of Late-Horizon Settlement Patterns, Puerto Maldonado, Use Analysis, Pespire Area, Olorgesailie Formation, Van West, Interdisciplinary Investigations, Nether Largie, Gregory Rift, Late Horizon, Hyena Hill, Harvest Size, Keju Nyiro River, Alto Mayo, Northwest Coast, New Mexico Browse Sample Pages:
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digital landscape, coastal landscapes, garment industry, cardinal exposure, paleolandscape approach, cultivated land systems, high mean production, locational modeling, village population size, cumulative viewsheds, linear ditches, spatial autocorrelation measures, beach quality, climatic exposure, ethnic firms, surrounding farmsteads, maize productivity, chambered cairns, rock art panels, surplus agricultural production Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Geographic Information Systems, Peruvian Amazon, Iron Age, San Martin, Madre de Dios, Northern Anasazi Sociopolitical Development, Los Angeles County, Tebenkof Bay, Bronze Age, Analysis of Late-Horizon Settlement Patterns, Puerto Maldonado, Use Analysis, Pespire Area, Olorgesailie Formation, Van West, Interdisciplinary Investigations, Nether Largie, Gregory Rift, Late Horizon, Hyena Hill, Harvest Size, Keju Nyiro River, Alto Mayo, Northwest Coast, New Mexico Browse Sample Pages:
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- Participating in Development: Approaches to Indigenous Knowledge (ASA Monographs) by Alan Bicker on page 204, and page 205
- Past Time, Past Place: GIS for History by Anne Kelly Knowles on page 143
- Darwinian Archaeologies (Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology) by Herbert D.G. Maschner on page 14
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