ISBN:
978-0-8263-5967-4
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978-0-8263-5968-1 /E-Book
Language:
English
Pages:
ix, 290 Seiten
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Illustrationen
Series Statement:
School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series [122]
Keywords:
Ethnographie Anthropologie
;
Paläoanthropologie
;
Soziologie
;
Sozialer Aspekt
;
Methodologie
Abstract:
Spatial analysis reaches across all the subdisciplines of anthropology. A cultural anthropologist, for example, can use such analysis to trace the extent of distinctive cultural practices; an archaeologist can use it to understand the organization of ancient irrigation systems; a primatologist to quantify the density of primate nesting sites; a paleoanthropologist to explore vast fossil-bearing landscapes.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. This volume brings together scholars who are currently applying state-of-the-art tools, techniques, and methods of geographical information sciences (GIScience) to diverse data sets of anthropological interest. Their questions crosscut the typical "silos" that so often limit scholarly communication among anthropologists and instead recognize a deep structural similarity between the kinds of questions anthropologists ask, the data they collect, and the analytical models and paradigms they each use. (Umschlagtext)
Description / Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations -- Chapter One. Geospatial Anthropology: Integrating Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Sciences into Anthropological Fieldwork and Analysis, Robert L. Anemone and Glenn C. Conroy -- Chapter Two. Ongoing Developments in Geospatial Data, Software, and Hardware with Prospects for Anthropological Applications, Charles W. Emerson and Robert L. Anemone -- Chapter Three. Geospatial Approaches to Hominid Paleontology in Africa: What`s Old, What`s New, and What Doesn`t Change, Leslea J. Hlusko -- Chapter Four. Assessing Unsupervised Image Classification as an Aid in Paleoanthropological Explorations, Glenn C. Conroy, Amy Chew, Kenneth D. Rose, Thomas M. Bown, Robert L. Anemone, and Gregg F. Gunnell -- Chapter Five. Taking Virtual Anthropology to the Field: Building Three-Dimensional Digital Outcrop Models of Fossil Localities, 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, Peter S. Ungar -- Chapter Seven. Classifying Land Cover on Very High Resolution Drone-Acquired Orthomosaics, Serge A. Wich, Lian Pin Koh, and Zoltan Szantoi -- Chapter Eight. Understanding the Ecological Decision-Making of Tiwanaku Pastoralists through Geospatial Agent-Based Models, Benjamin Vining and Sara Burns -- Chapter Nine. Pastoralist Participation (PastPart): A Model of Mobility and Connectivity across the Inner Asian Mountain Corridor, Michael D. Frachetti, C. Evan Smith, and Cody Copp -- Chapter Ten. Modeling Archaeological Landscape Transformations in Early Andean Empires, Patrick Ryan Williams, Ana Cristina Londoño, and Megan Hart -- Chapter Eleven. PaleoCore: An Open-Source Platform for Geospatial Data Integration in Paleoanthropology, Denné N. Reed, W. Andrew Barr, and John Kappelman -- References -- List of Contributors -- Index
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 225-271"School for Advanced Research advanced seminar New Geospatial Approaches to the Anthropological Sciences, [...] March 6-10, 2016" (Seite 272)Enthält 11 Beiträge
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