Spatial Sequences: The use of 3D GIS for the identificationof complex archaeological patterns

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Abstract
The diffusion of new three-dimensional (3D) visualization platforms together with the development of new tools for query and analysis of 3D information has provided archaeologists with the opportunity to define new ways to approach and engage with stratigraphy.
Today stratigraphic sequences of archaeological contexts can be represented and visualized in different ways providing archaeologists with the opportunity to experience different modalities to engage with the material being recorded.
For instance, archaeological information, seemingly disjointed in time and/or space, such as stratigraphic excavations from campaigns on the same site spanning many years, can be simultaneously interpreted and analyzed. This gives new opportunities for both site and landscape interpretations and aids in a synthesis of the archaeological record. Three-dimensional treatment of stratigraphy and spatial information also provides fresh means to interlink several record clusters such as finds distribution and stratigraphic sequencing, forming a more complete interpretational framework. Visualizing and analyzing archaeological records previously conceptualized on a two-dimensional axis, such as stratigraphic sequence or spatial patterning, in three dimensions could in this way be utilized to expand and enhance our present understanding of these fundamental aspects of material culture in the past.
By presenting different case studies where 3D GIS was used for recording and analyzing ongoing field investigations activities, this paper will discuss how this approach allowed the identification of new information impossible to detect with a more traditional methods.

Period	2019 apr. 25
Evenemangstitel	CAA 2019: Check Object Integrity
Typ av evenemang	Konferens
Konferensnummer	47
Plats	Kraków, PolenVisa på karta
Omfattning	Internationell