Digital archaeology and the Neolithic of the Peak
A significant component of Landscape Archaeology is concerned with recognising human experience and activities at a number of different spatial scales. This study looks at how related areas of technology can be used to investigate these different scales of activity and experience, and how these can be integrated to capture potential synergies that exist between them. The technologies considered are Geographical Information Systems, Panoramic Virtual Reality (PVR), 3D virtual models, and interactive multimedia. Although each of these technologies have been used fairly extensively in their own right, there have been relatively few studies where they have all been applied together, to the same body of archaeological knowledge. In this study, all the technologies have been applied in the same context, which is the Neolithic of the Peak District, with particular attention focussed on the ceremonial monuments of the White Peak. This is mediated by three main case studies. The first case study uses GIS based viewshed analysis to examine the distribution of the Neolithic burial mounds and two Henge monuments of the Peak District. The results of the analysis are discussed within the prevailing models of seasonal mobility,
McElearney, Graham F. X.
Digital archaeology and the Neolithic of the Peak. A significant component of Landscape Archaeology is concerned with recognising human experience and activities at a number of different spatial scales. This study looks at how related areas of technology can be used to investigate these different scales of activity and experience, and how these can be integrated to capture potential synergies that exist between them. The technologies considered are Geographical Information Systems, Panoramic Virtual Reality (PVR), 3D virtual models, and interactive multimedia. Although each of these technologies have been used fairly extensively in their own right, there have been relatively few studies where they have all been applied together, to the same body of archaeological knowledge. In this study, all the technologies have been applied in the same context, which is the Neolithic of the Peak District, with particular attention focussed on the ceremonial monuments of the White Peak. This is mediated by three main case studies. The first case study uses GIS based viewshed analysis to examine the distribution of the Neolithic burial mounds and two Henge monuments of the Peak District. The results of the analysis are discussed within the prevailing models of seasonal mobility,
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