eprintid: 518
rev_number: 3
eprint_status: archive
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datestamp: 2010-03-30 09:29:47
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type: bookPart
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Fiz, Ignacio
creators_name: Orengo, Hèctor A.
title: Simulating communication routes in Mediterranean alluvial plains
ispublished: pub
subjects: 930
divisions: 209
cterms_swd: Archäologie
cterms_swd: Informatik
cterms_swd: Computerunterstütztes Verfahren
cterms_swd: Computervisualistik
cterms_swd: Interdisziplinäre Forschung
cterms_swd: Naturwissenschaften
abstract: Societies exchange knowledge, ideas and merchandise throughout their territories. Topography plays a fundamental role in the trajectory of such movements whilst helping to explain the distribution of human constructions. Standard GIS functions have been employed widely to simulate communication routes between settlements, but the straight application of published least cost route models proved inadequate for Mediterranean alluvial plain areas in which seasonal floods become an important factor to acknowledge. The objective of this study is the production of a new model, using topographic and hydrologic factors as variables from which it would be possible to simulate a route, and test it against known Roman itineraries. The selected Roman stretches are Girona – Coll de Pannisars and Tarragona – Montblanc. The new model shows the need to consider each case individually but also stresses the hydrologic factor, expressed in seasonal floods, as being of prime importance in the creation and development of Roman roads in Mediterranean alluvial plains.
abstract_translated_lang: eng
date: 2008
date_type: published
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/propylaeumdok.00000518
portal_cluster_id: p-caa2007
portal_order: 00104
ppn_swb: 1391378601
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-propylaeumdok-5180
language: eng
bibsort: FIZIGNACIOSIMULATING2008
full_text_status: public
place_of_pub: Bonn
pagerange: 316-321
book_title: 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
editors_name: Posluschny, A.
editors_name: Lambers, K.
editors_name: Herzog, I.
laender: R936
themen: T 930
oa_type: green
citation:   Fiz, Ignacio ; Orengo, Hèctor A.  (2008) Simulating communication routes in Mediterranean alluvial plains.   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. 316-321        
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/propylaeumdok/518/1/10_02_fiz_routes.pdf