Ebook: Geographical Information Systems and Landscape Archaeology (The Archaeology of Mediterranean Landscapes)

Twelve papers discuss aspects of the application of GIS in archaeological contexts. There are papers on theory, reports on case-studies and discussion of progress in the development of new techniques and approaches. Contents: GIS: today and tomorrow (Peter F. Fisher); GIS and perceptions of landscapes of perception (Robert Witcher); A case study from central Italy (Peter Attema); The Boetia project (Mark Gillings and Kostas Sbonias); The Sangro valley project (Gary Lock, Tyler Bell & John Lloyd); Interpolation in archaeology (Jennifer M. Robinson & Ezra Zubrow); GIS-based analysis of the population trends on the island of Brac (Zoran Stancic & Vincent Gaffney); Analyzing Rome's hinterland (Martin Belcher; Andrew Harrison & Simon Stoddart); The population history of the Albegna valley and Ager Cosanus in the Etruscan period (Philip Perkins); Probability modelling a Bayesian and a geometric example (Jan van Dalen); Multispectral classification of satellite images (Kristof Ostir, Zoran Stancic & Magda Trusnovec); The presentation and display of results (Javier Baena Preysler, Concepcion Blasco, Javier Espiago, Alberto Rio).