Modelling population mobility in southern Baffin Island's past using GIS and landscape archaeology
Free and open source geographic information systems (GIS) and spatial data are readily available to use in spatial-archaeological problem solving. Greater accessibility allows more frequent experimentation with archaeological GIS methodologies. The least cost path (LCP) analysis has been a frequentl...
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ftunivmanitoba:oai:mspace.lib.umanitoba.ca:1993/30391 2023-06-18T03:39:55+02:00 Modelling population mobility in southern Baffin Island's past using GIS and landscape archaeology Stup, Jeffrey Phillip Milne, Brooke (Anthropology) Oakes, Jill (Environment and Geography) Walker, David (Environment and Geography) 2015-04-13 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/1993/30391 eng eng http://hdl.handle.net/1993/30391 open access Landscape archaeology GIS Baffin Island Inuit Palaeo-Eskimo master thesis 2015 ftunivmanitoba 2023-06-04T17:43:54Z Free and open source geographic information systems (GIS) and spatial data are readily available to use in spatial-archaeological problem solving. Greater accessibility allows more frequent experimentation with archaeological GIS methodologies. The least cost path (LCP) analysis has been a frequently used method in archaeological GIS. Showing potential mobility patterns between archaeological sites or between sites and resources has been the LCP’s primary objective. The LCP’s major flaw is that is must be calculated between two designated points. A recent terrain analysis of southern Baffin Island has been unable to overcome this flaw, because of the size of the study area and the inability to assume any two points are directly related. Thus, a new GIS method using a ‘watershed’ function has been manipulated to incorporate the cost-surface element of the LCP into a mobility model by generating pathway networks instead of narrow A to B paths. The product is a multitude of potential pathways linking archaeologically dense coastal and interior areas. Portions of these pathways correlate with historic geographic descriptions of Inuit travel routes and with areas where chert toolstone is accessible. Generated with no material cost, this analysis has produced a predictive model to help in future research. May 2015 Master Thesis Baffin Island Baffin eskimo* inuit MSpace at the University of Manitoba Baffin Island |
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Free and open source geographic information systems (GIS) and spatial data are readily available to use in spatial-archaeological problem solving. Greater accessibility allows more frequent experimentation with archaeological GIS methodologies. The least cost path (LCP) analysis has been a frequently used method in archaeological GIS. Showing potential mobility patterns between archaeological sites or between sites and resources has been the LCP’s primary objective. The LCP’s major flaw is that is must be calculated between two designated points. A recent terrain analysis of southern Baffin Island has been unable to overcome this flaw, because of the size of the study area and the inability to assume any two points are directly related. Thus, a new GIS method using a ‘watershed’ function has been manipulated to incorporate the cost-surface element of the LCP into a mobility model by generating pathway networks instead of narrow A to B paths. The product is a multitude of potential pathways linking archaeologically dense coastal and interior areas. Portions of these pathways correlate with historic geographic descriptions of Inuit travel routes and with areas where chert toolstone is accessible. Generated with no material cost, this analysis has produced a predictive model to help in future research. May 2015 |
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Modelling population mobility in southern Baffin Island's past using GIS and landscape archaeology |
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Modelling population mobility in southern Baffin Island's past using GIS and landscape archaeology |
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Modelling population mobility in southern Baffin Island's past using GIS and landscape archaeology |
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Modelling population mobility in southern Baffin Island's past using GIS and landscape archaeology |
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Modelling population mobility in southern Baffin Island's past using GIS and landscape archaeology |
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modelling population mobility in southern baffin island's past using gis and landscape archaeology |
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