Making time for space at ĂatalhĂ¶yĂŒk : GIS as a tool for exploring intra-site spatiotemporality within complex stratigraphic sequences
This thesis explores the inherent temporality embedded within the complex stratigraphic sequence of the âtellâ site of ĂatalhĂ¶yĂŒk, an important Anatolian Neolithic settlement situated upon the Konya Plain, South-Central Turkey. Recently the ĂatalhĂ¶yĂŒk Research Project has digitized all of its single context excavation data, fully integrating their digital archive within an intra-site GIS, as an aid to analysis and interpretation. This process of digitisation excludes the Harris matrix, which, despite being integral to the recording system, and the main source of relative temporal data for the development of the site, remains an analogue mode of analysis. This research digitally visualises the stratigraphic sequence, both dynamically and intuitively (moving beyond conventional archaeological methods of phasing and periodisation), utilising the temporal capabilities of ArcGIS 10 to generate robust and dynamic intra-site spatiotemporal models. By focusing upon two case studies as a âproof-of-methodâ (a âtypicalâ sequence of two fully excavated superjacent buildings â Buildings 65 and 56, and one unusually large and well preserved burnt building â Building 77), the experimental appending
Taylor, James Stuart
Making time for space at ĂatalhĂ¶yĂŒk : GIS as a tool for exploring intra-site spatiotemporality within complex stratigraphic sequences. This thesis explores the inherent temporality embedded within the complex stratigraphic sequence of the âtellâ site of ĂatalhĂ¶yĂŒk, an important Anatolian Neolithic settlement situated upon the Konya Plain, South-Central Turkey. Recently the ĂatalhĂ¶yĂŒk Research Project has digitized all of its single context excavation data, fully integrating their digital archive within an intra-site GIS, as an aid to analysis and interpretation. This process of digitisation excludes the Harris matrix, which, despite being integral to the recording system, and the main source of relative temporal data for the development of the site, remains an analogue mode of analysis. This research digitally visualises the stratigraphic sequence, both dynamically and intuitively (moving beyond conventional archaeological methods of phasing and periodisation), utilising the temporal capabilities of ArcGIS 10 to generate robust and dynamic intra-site spatiotemporal models. By focusing upon two case studies as a âproof-of-methodâ (a âtypicalâ sequence of two fully excavated superjacent buildings â Buildings 65 and 56, and one unusually large and well preserved burnt building â Building 77), the experimental appending
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