My research has shown that the type of regional archaeological data analysis required by
landscape archaeological approaches is an area where both theory and method are still in …

GIS has become an indispensable tool for archaeologists to organize, explore and analyse
spatial data. In this introductory chapter, an historical overview of the development of GIS …

Using accumulated cost surfaces and various pathfinding techniques within Geographic
Information Systems (GIS) software, archaeologists and other spatial scientists have …

In the last two decades an increasing number of archaeological least-cost path (LCP)
studies have been published. LCP analysis recently has become part of the predictive …

GIS and quantitative analysis are used to explore a series of simple but important issues in
GIS-led survey. we draw on information collected during intensive archaeological field …

The movement of past peoples in the landscape has been studied extensively through the
use of least cost path (LCP) analysis. Although methodological issues of applying LCP …

The famous 'Silk Roads' have long evoked a romantic picture of travel through colourful
civilizations that connected the western and eastern poles of Eurasia, facilitating the …

The use of GIS tools to explore questions related to movement in archaeological contexts
has been common in the last years. Least Cost Paths (LCP) have been especially …

Cost-surface and least-cost path analyses are widely used tools to understand the ways in
which movement relates and engages with the surrounding space. They are employed in …

Due to the proliferation of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software and the
improvement of graphic user interfaces, least-cost analysis has become one of the most …