Spatial analyses, field survey, territories and mental maps on the island of Brac

Vincent Gaffney, Krištof Oštir, Tomaž Podobnikar, Zoran Stancic

«Archeologia e Calcolatori» 1996, 7, 27-41

Abstract

An international team of scholars from Croatia, Canada, Britain and Slovenia is attempting to analyse the human adaptation of nature on the Central Dalmatian islands in Croatia. Archaeological data and various forms of environmental information were integrated into a GIS. This system is an ideal platform for a variety of analytical procedures: the economy of past societies was analysed, territories of larger communities were modelled, trade routes were predicted and the positioning of different sites was observed. In this paper, special emphasis is paid to the GIS application of a sites and monuments database in the analysis of the perception of space using the data from the Bronze Age.

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