Anthropology, space, and geographic information systems /

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Major advances in the use of geographic information systems have been made in both anthropology and archaeology. Yet there are few published discussions of these new applications and their use in solving complex problems. This book explores these techniques, showing how they have been successfully d...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Aldenderfer, Mark S. (Editor ), Maschner, Herbert D. G. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.
Colección:Spatial information systems.
Temas:
Anthropology > Data processing > Congresses.
Cartography > Data processing > Congresses.
Geographic information systems > Congresses.
Spatial analysis (Statistics) > Congresses.
Anthropologie > Informatique > Congrès.
Cartographie > Informatique > Congrès.
Systèmes d'information géographique > Congrès.
Analyse spatiale (Statistique) > Congrès.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Regional Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
Anthropology > Data processing
Cartography > Data processing
Geographic information systems
Spatial analysis (Statistics)
Culturele antropologie.
Cartografie.
Geografische informatiesystemen.
Ruimtelijke analyse.
Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Malk Aldenderfer
  • Land degradation in the Peruvian Amazon : applying GIS in human ecology research / William M. Loker
  • The use of GIS to measure spatial patterns of ethnic firms in the Los Angeles garment industry / Christopher G. Arnold, Richard P. Appelbaum
  • A formal justification for the application of GIS to the cultural ecological analysis of land-use intensification and deforestation in the Amazon / Clifford A. Behrens
  • Integrating socioeconomic and geographic information systems : a methodology for rural development and agricultural policy design / Susan Stonich
  • Empirical and methodological problems in developing a GIS database for Yanomanö tribesmen located in remote areas / Ken McGwire, Napoleon A. Chagnon, Charles Brewer Carías
  • A time to rend, a time to sew : new perspectives on Northern Anasazi sociopolitical development in late prehistory / Carla Van West, TimothyKohler
  • Moving from catchments to cognition : tentative steps toward a larger archaeological context for GIS / Vincent Gaffney, Zoran Stancic, Helen Watson
  • An analysis of late-horizon settlement patterns in the Teotihuacan-Temascalapa Basins : a location-allocation and GIS-based approach / Amy J. Ruggles, Richard L. Church
  • The politics of settlement choice on the Northwest Coast : cognition, GIS, and coastal landscapes / Herbert D. G. Maschner
  • The role of GIS in the management of archaeological data : an example of application for the Spanish administration / Concepción Blasco Bosqued, Javier Baena Preysler, Javier Expiago
  • The role of GIS in the interdisciplinary investigations at Olorgesailie, Kenya, a Pleistocene Archaeological locality / Richard Potts, Tom Jorstad, Daniel Cole
  • Danebury revisited : an English Iron Age Hillfort in a digital landscape / Gary R. Lock, Trevor M. Harris
  • Geographic information systems and spatial analysis in the social sciences / Michael F. Goodchild.

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