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New Geospatial Approaches to the Anthropological Sciences /
Arguing that geospatial analysis holds great promise for much anthropological inquiry, the contributors have designed this volume to show how the powerful tools of GIScience can be used to benefit a variety of research programs.
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albuquerque :
University of New Mexico Press,
2018.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Chapter One. Geospatial Anthrolpology: Integrating Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Sciences in Anthropological Fieldwork and Analysis by Robert L. Anemone and Glenn C. Conroy; Chapter Two. Ongoing Developments in Geospatial Data, Software, and Hardware with Prospects for Anthropological Applications Charles W. Emrson and Robert L. Anemone; Chapter Three. Geospatial Approaches to Hominid Paleontology in Africa: What's Old, What's New, and What Doesn't Change by Leslea J. Hlusko.
- Chapter Four. Assessing Unsupervised Image Classification as an Aid in Paleoanthropological Explorations by Glenn C. Conroy, Any Chew, Kenneth D. Rose, Thomas M. Bown, Robert L. Anemone, and Gregg F. GunnellChapter Five. Taking Virtual Anthropology to the Field: Building Three-Dimensional Digital Outcrop Models of Fossil Localitieis by Robert L. Anemone, Charles W. Emerson, Tyler W. Jones, Junshan Liu, and Cory Henderson; Chapter Six. Tooth Surface Topography: A Scale-Sensitive Approach with Implications for Inferring Dental Adaptation and Diet by Peter S. Ungar.
- Chapter Seven. Classifying Land Cover on Very High Resolution Drone-Acquired Orthomosaics by Serge A. Wich, Lian Pin Koh, and Zoltan SzantoiChapter Eight. Understanding the Ecological Decision-Making Tiwanaku Pastoralists through Geospatial Agent-Based Models by Benjamin Vining anf Sara Burns; Chapter Nine. Pastoralist Participation (PastPart): A Model of Mobility and Connectivity across the Inner Asian Mountain Corridor by Michael D. Frachetti, C. Evan Smith, and Cody Copp.
- Chapter Ten. Modeling Archaeological Landscape Transformations in Early Andean Empires by Patrick Ryan Williams, Ana Cristina Londoño, and Megan HartChapter Eleven. PaleoCore: An Open-Source Platform for Geospatial Data Integration in Paleoanthropology by Denne N. Reed, W. Andrew Barr, and John Kappelman; References; Contributors; Index.