PRINCETON

The project seeks to integrate traditional archaeological survey work with other disciplines, including geomorphology and palynology, into a 100% digital project exploiting the full capacities of modern technology. The project will exploit the use of GIS to enhance our understanding of the past and incorporate large datasets both of a traditional archaeological as well as non-archaeological nature - large volumes of text, climatic and palynlogical data, and vegetational and geological classifications derived from multispectral satellite imagery. We will be using new approaches to surface survey which are changing the way in which survey work is carried out, including challenges to traditional concepts of sampling, the need to excavate, and the relationship of settlement to non-settlement areas. These need to be made relevant to the problems of understanding regional change over time, particularly with respect to settlement patterns, subsistence strategies and communication patterns...

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Primary location: Princeton United States