Abstract
Since the mid-1970s, the Polish Archaeological Record has been a national program in Poland with the primary objective of cataloguing archaeological sites, providing detailed descriptions and exact geographical locations. It is in operation to this day. So far, approximately 90% of the area of Poland has been prospected and almost 470,000 archaeological sites catalogued. Currently, work is underway to digitise the entire database. This paper presents our attempts to use the digitised data from this database to study the intensity of settlement processes in the past as well as how to visualise these data on a map. For the purpose of this research, archaeological data from an area in the northeast of Poland were digitised in a GIS environment. Examples of similar spatial analyses were taken from Scottish and Czech research and adapted to this case. The results, a series of maps showing the intensity of traces of human habitation in different time periods, demonstrate the strengths and weaknesses of such visualisations.
Publisher
Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences
Reference31 articles.
1. Ahlrichs J., Henkner J. and Schmidt K 2016. A seamless workflow for defining archaeological site densities with contour lines by using the open source (geo-)statistical language R. Technical note 1: Collaborative Research Center 1070 – Geoscientific and archaeological research.
2. Optimising the Selection of a Number of Choropleth Map Classes
3. Towards National Archaeological Mapping. Assessing Source Data and Methodology—A Case Study from Scotland
4. Bryk M. and Chyla J. 2013. Zastosowanie technologii GIS w lokalizacji stanowisk archeologicznych podczas prospekcji terenowej. Roczniki Geomatyki 12/1(63), 19–29.
5. Całka B. 2018. Comparing continuity and compactness of choropleth map classes. Geodesy and Cartography 67/1, 21–34. doi.org/10.24425/118704.