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New Geospatial Technologies Leading to New Strategies: The Case of Kerkenes Dağ, Turkey

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Innovations in geospatial technologies have exploded over the past ­several decades, significantly impacting archaeological research. At Kerkenes Dağ, a massive late Iron Age city in Central Turkey, a variety of these technologies have been employed over the past two decades. The techniques used include: aerial photography, satellite imaging, magnetometry survey, resistivity survey, and micro-topographic GPS survey. The availability of this data has allowed a map of the ancient city to be developed and new strategies and methods to be devised, including archaeological transportation modeling using both Agent-Based Modeling (ABM) and Transportation Geographic Information Systems (GIS-T), to understand how the city was used by its inhabitants. The potential impacts of these new strategies for both archaeological interpretation and site management are explored in this chapter.

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Branting, S. (2013). New Geospatial Technologies Leading to New Strategies: The Case of Kerkenes Dağ, Turkey. In: Mapping Archaeological Landscapes from Space. SpringerBriefs in Archaeology(), vol 5. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6074-9_19

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