scholarly journals How to access ancient landscapes? Field survey and legacy data integration for research on Greek and Roman settlement patterns in Eastern Sicily

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodolfo Brancato
Keyword(s):  
Data Integration ◽  
Settlement Patterns ◽  
Field Survey ◽  
Legacy Data ◽  
Ancient Landscapes

The Promise and Challenge of Archaeological Data Integration

2006 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
pp. 567-578 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith Kintigh
Keyword(s):  
Data Integration ◽  
National Science Foundation ◽  
Information Infrastructure ◽  
Structured Data ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Archaeological Data ◽  
National Science ◽  
Disparate Data ◽  
Legacy Data

This forum reports the results of a National Science Foundation—funded workshop that focused on the integration and preservation of digital databases and other structured data derived from archaeological contexts. The workshop concluded that for archaeology to achieve its potential to advance long-term, scientific understandings of human history, there is a pressing need for an archaeological information infrastructure that will allow us to archive, access, integrate, and mine disparate data sets. This report provides an assessment of the informatics needs of archaeology, articulates an ambitious vision for a distributed disciplinary information infrastructure (cyberinfrastructure), discusses the challenges posed by its development, and outlines initial steps toward its realization. Finally, it argues that such a cyberinfrastructure has enormous potential to contribute to anthropology and science more generally. Concept-oriented archaeological data integration will enable the use of existing data to answer compelling new questions and permit syntheses of archaeological data that rely not on other investigators' conclusions but on analyses of meaningfully integrated new and legacy data sets.

scholarly journals Mediterranean survey and the city

Antiquity ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 62 (234) ◽  
pp. 57-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Bintliff ◽  
Anthony Snodgrass
Keyword(s):  
Settlement Patterns ◽  
Field Survey ◽  
Human Occupation ◽  
Good Surface ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
The City

The Mediterranean, and especially Greece, provides fine conditions for field-survey – long and intense human occupation, good surface exposure, and distinctive, diagnostic ceramics. Where the Classical authors are conspicuously reticent about the countryside, field-survey can provide a rural picture, as well as the settlement patterns of prehistory. Here, the methods of field-survey return from the countryside to look at the cities, formerly the preserve of the excavator.

scholarly journals Urbanization and the lost of river activity on Malay human settlement

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 148-168
Author(s):  
Julaihi Wahid ◽  
Azli Abdullah
Keyword(s):  
Settlement Patterns ◽  
Field Survey ◽  
Current Trend ◽  
Google Earth ◽  
Human Settlement ◽  
Strong Bond ◽  
Early Settlement ◽  
Mapping Techniques ◽  
Socioeconomic Data

Malaysia, as any other country, is constantly evolving in all facets of life, including architecture, economy, and culture. Despite that, the Malay settlement on the River's fringe remains an early settlement due to the Malays' strong connections to agriculture and socio-culture. The Malay's brilliance in establishing settlements on the river's fringe is among the leading reasons for this community's glorious history in the maritime world. However, today's shift in river activity has eroded the strong bond in Malay settlement. Therefore, affecting the  Malay settlements, which have a significant impact on their economic growth. The research methodology employs previous researchers' exploratory techniques focusing on the effects of urbanization, as well as socioeconomic data from 350 local respondents collected during the field survey in April 2019, and observation analysis information commonly used by architects to evaluate the context of the discussion. These include physical, social, cultural, and public amenities, and the data gathered then was amalgamated using IBM SPSS V26, supplemented by interview techniques and pictorial documentation. Mapping techniques are being used to generate existing settlements patterns by utilizing the Google Earth software. Finally, AutoCAD 2018 software is used to demonstrate the current settlement pattern in the case study situation. According to the results of the study, the pace of urbanization is speeding up and creeping into the Malay settlements. The destruction of river activities in order to change Malay settlement patterns and force them to follow or reject the current trend of urbanization.

scholarly journals THE SEER AND THE SEEN: A SURVEY OF TOPICS FOUND IN PALANTIR PATENTS

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew James Iliadis ◽  
Amelia Acker
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Data Integration ◽  
Topic Modeling ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Social Worlds ◽  
Technology Firms ◽  
The Us ◽  
Legacy Data

Palantir is one of the most secretive technology firms in the US. The company supplies information technology (IT) solutions to governments, nonprofits, and corporations, focusing on data integration and surveillance services. To investigate Palantir’s opaque technology practices, this article presents findings from a topic modeling of Palantir patents (n=155) filed from 2006-2019 in the US, Germany, Australia, UK, and EU. This approach follows recent literature that uses patents as data for researching opaque IT firms. We begin by summarizing scholarship on Palantir and IT for policing, intelligence, and security. Our findings show that Palantir’s IT produces infrastructural layers of meaning/context via metadata that are wrapped ‘on top’ of previously held legacy data. We thus use the concept of infrastructuring to understand Palantir’s practices, where information standards like metadata are theorized as phenomena for structuring social worlds. The paper ends by offering action items for future research into opaque IT firms.

Ancient Landscapes in Southeastern Anatolia

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason Ur
Keyword(s):  
Iron Age ◽  
Field Survey ◽  
Landscape Approach ◽  
Political Factors ◽  
Archaeological Investigation ◽  
Late Chalcolithic ◽  
Third Millennium Bce ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ancient Landscapes ◽  
Modern Turkey

This article considers the nature of ancient landscapes and their archaeological investigation in southeastern Anatolia, one of the most intensively studied regions in modern Turkey. Southeastern Anatolia's diversity of environments and long history of settlement make it an ideal region for a landscape approach to the human past. Shifting constellations of settlement—in response to environmental, social, and political factors—have been revealed through decades of field survey and have provided a broad geographic frame that complements the spatially limited results of excavation. At present, particularly vivid trends in settlement and land use have been demonstrated for the Late Chalcolithic Uruk Expansion, the mid-to-late-third-millennium-BCE phase of urban growth, and the Iron Age/Neo-Assyrian period, to name a few examples.

The Fezzan Project 1999: preliminary report on the third season of work

1999 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
pp. 129-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
David J. Mattingly ◽  
Mohammed al-Mashai ◽  
Phil Balcombe ◽  
Nick Drake ◽  
Stephanie Knight ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Preliminary Analysis ◽  
Preliminary Report ◽  
Settlement Patterns ◽  
Field Survey ◽  
The Third ◽  
The North ◽  
New Information ◽  
Irrigation Channels ◽  
Climatic And Environmental Change ◽  
Over Time

AbstractThis report summarises the work of the third season of the Fezzan project which took place in January 1999. The main environmental findings of the project team of specialist geographers are providing confirmation of dramatic climatic and environmental change over the last 100,000 years and give more precise dates for some of these changes. The excavations in Old Germa (ancient Garama) have continued through Islamic levels, with elements of five main phases of buildings now having been recorded. Additional standing structures, including one of Germa's main mosques, have been surveyed. Field survey around Germa has revealed further new settlement sites of prehistoric, Garamantian and Islamic date. Of particular importance is a series of lithic and pottery scatters relating to neolithic occupation along the edge of the Ubari Sand Sea, to the north of Germa. Further investigation of the irrigation channels (foggaras) has revealed significant new information about their size, construction and probable date. The report concludes with a brief preliminary analysis of changing settlement patterns over time.

scholarly journals Investigating ancient landscapes and settlement patterns in the Chengdu Plain, Sichuan, China

2009 ◽  
pp. 187-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy J. Horsley ◽  
Rowan K. Flad ◽  
Gwen P. Bennett ◽  
Li Shuicheng ◽  
Jiang Zhanghua ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Settlement Patterns ◽  
Chengdu Plain ◽  
Ancient Landscapes

Siticulosa Apulia revisited

Antiquity ◽  
1986 ◽  
Vol 60 (228) ◽  
pp. 36-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth D. Whitehouse
Keyword(s):  
Aerial Photography ◽  
Field Survey ◽  
Initial Momentum ◽  
Ancient Landscapes ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Considerable Work

In recognition of the significance of these sites, and those of the classical and medieval periods also revealed by aerial photography, the Apulia Committee was set up under the auspices of the Society of Antiquaries to organize a systematic programme of research. Unhappily this enterprise, begun with great intentions, became an early victim of tragic illness and accident of the chief protagonists and latterly has fallen into the malaise characteristic of old archaeological projects that have lost their initial momentum. All that is available in print is three preliminary reports in ANTIQUITY (Bradford & Williams-Hunt, 1946; Bradford, 1949; Bradford, 1950), some further information in Bradford's book Ancient landscapes (1957) and a few articles by other authors that arose as a result of work sponsored by the Apulia Committee. Of the series of monographs initially envisaged by the Society of Antiquaries, none has yet appeared, though at the time of writing (June 1984) the first-on the neolithic sites-is now advertised (Jones in press). In the years since 1945 there has been considerable work on the Tavoliere, most of it by Italian scholars, Further aerial photography has greatly increased the number of known sites (Odetti, 1975), while excavation and some field survey have gathered information about the nature and chronology of the sites.

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