A GIS Analysis of the Zeekoe Valley Stone Age Archaeological Record in South Africa
نام عام مواد
[Article]
نام نخستين پديدآور
C. Garth Sampson, Virginia Moore, C. Britt Bousman, et al.
وضعیت نشر و پخش و غیره
محل نشرو پخش و غیره
Leiden
نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره
Brill
یادداشتهای مربوط به خلاصه یا چکیده
متن يادداشت
The conversion of the Zeekoe Valley Archaeological Project survey data to a GIS format allows rapid and accurate analysis of this large hunter-gatherer database. During the 16-month survey 13,866 prehistoric Stone Age sites were recorded and plotted on aerial photographs. These site locations and archaeological data can now be analysed in a manner never possible before the conversion. The distribution and abundance of sites spanning over ~700,000 years of occupation demonstrates how human hunting and gathering societies organized themselves spatially on an African landscape. These results show how these different groups positioned themselves in different locations especially in relation to water sources in the semi-desert Karoo. These distributions show flexible patterns of spatial organization through the prehistoric past. The conversion of the Zeekoe Valley Archaeological Project survey data to a GIS format allows rapid and accurate analysis of this large hunter-gatherer database. During the 16-month survey 13,866 prehistoric Stone Age sites were recorded and plotted on aerial photographs. These site locations and archaeological data can now be analysed in a manner never possible before the conversion. The distribution and abundance of sites spanning over ~700,000 years of occupation demonstrates how human hunting and gathering societies organized themselves spatially on an African landscape. These results show how these different groups positioned themselves in different locations especially in relation to water sources in the semi-desert Karoo. These distributions show flexible patterns of spatial organization through the prehistoric past.
مجموعه
تاريخ نشر
2015
توصيف ظاهري
167-185
عنوان
Journal of African Archaeology
شماره جلد
13/2
شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها
2191-5784
اصطلاحهای موضوعی کنترل نشده
اصطلاح موضوعی
Acheulian
اصطلاح موضوعی
GIS
اصطلاح موضوعی
herders
اصطلاح موضوعی
Karoo
اصطلاح موضوعی
LSA
اصطلاح موضوعی
MSA
اصطلاح موضوعی
Seekoei River
اصطلاح موضوعی
settlement patterns
اصطلاح موضوعی
spatial organization
اصطلاح موضوعی
Stone Age
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