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Mediterranean
landscapes have been fragmented, connected and reformed by
countless track ways, buildings, field systems and terraces.
On the Greek island of Kythera an extensive and detailed record
of such structures (built over the past three or four centuries)
has been digitised as part of broader multi-disciplinary investigation
of the island's long-term history by the Kythera Island Project
(KIP). This rich dataset can be further complemented by KIP's
intensive archaeological and geoarchaeological surveys, offering
both practical checks on the mapped 1:5000 data and insights
at greater resolution. The presentation draws on this combination
of research material and deploys GIS-led, spatial analysis
techniques to explore and quantify a range of issues relating
to anthropogenic landscapes.
Key words: GIS, Greece, landscape, archaeological survey
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