title: From points to areas: constructing territories from archaeological site patterns using an enhanced Xtent model
creator: Ducke, Benjamin
creator: Kroefges, Peter C.
subject: ddc-930
subject: Alte Geschichte, Vor- und Frühgeschichte, Archäologie
subject: History of the ancient world to ca. 499 [T930]
subject: Prehistoric Archaeology [FVFG]
subject: Classical Archaeology [FKA]
description: Territorial reasoning is a basic topic of spatial archaeology. The ability to establish territorial extents of political, religious or economic zones allows us to move from point to area-based observations and hypotheses. We present a substantially enhanced, GIS-based version of Renfrew and Level’s classic Xtent algorithm. Our version offers various advantages over the original. It respects terrain properties, a priori physical movement constraints and hierarchical relations between sites, maximum territory sizes are easy to control and a measure of uncertainty is provided. The software implementation used in this paper was done within the framework of the open source GRASS geographic information system.
contributor: Posluschny, A.
contributor: Lambers, K.
contributor: Herzog, I.
date: 2008
type: Book Section
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPart
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/propylaeumdokhttps://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/propylaeumdok/550/1/08_01_ducke_et_al_xtent.pdf
identifier: DOI:10.11588/propylaeumdok.00000550
identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-propylaeumdok-5504
identifier:   Ducke, Benjamin ; Kroefges, Peter C.  (2008) From points to areas: constructing territories from archaeological site patterns using an enhanced Xtent model.   In: Posluschny, A. ; Lambers, K. ; Herzog, I. (Hrsgg.):  Layers of Perception. Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA), Berlin, 2.-6. April, 2007 (Koll. Vor- u. Frühgesch. 10).   Bonn 2008, pp. 245-251        
relation: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/propylaeumdok/550/
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language: eng