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D.
Constantinidis
Dept. of Archaeology, Athens University, Greece
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Interconnectivity of Cultural Sites. |
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Registering
sites across a landscape allows for insights as to preferred
site locations. A site's position in relation to mountains,
rivers, coastlines and other sites may reflect decisions that
were based on cultural influences. Sites rarely developed in
a vacuum but maintained contact with surrounding areas. It may
be assumed that sites of a common cultural heritage were connected
and communicated with each other across a given landscape. But
exactly how were culturally related sites connected with each
other and on what basis were they dispersed across a region?
Site catchment analysis has been an important research area.
However beyond resource and socio-political influences it is
also beneficial to investigate possible communication-network
patterns that presumably helped maintain a dominant culture
in an area. A GIS can be used to evaluate the possibility that
distances between sites were established by cultural standards
to facilitate easy communication with each other. Mycenaean
sites in Central Greece were chosen to demonstrate how an evaluation
of site interconnectivity might reflect inter-site communication
patterns in the past.
Key words: interconnectivity, Mycenaean Landscape, communication-patterns,
GIS
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[gor]10-02-2003
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