Using measures of cost distance in the estimation of polity boundaries in the Postclassic Yautepec valley, Mexico

Hare, Timothy S.

doi:10.1016/j.jas.2003.10.016

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“…The classic tools of regional analysis, such as fall-off analysis, catchment studies, location-allocation modeling, and rank-size distributions, are used less often today (Kantner 1996(Kantner , 2005, although some important exceptions do exist (e.g., Drennan and Peterson 2004;Hare, 2004;Lee 2004). In contrast, the phenomenal growth of inexpensive and accessible computing power combined with the methodological maturity resulting from several decades of regional archaeology have made a variety of new techniques available that in many cases have replaced or substantially built on the analytical tools of the past.…”

Section: New Methods In Regional Archaeologymentioning

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“…Jennings and Craig (2001) employ a similar approach but a different cost-surface algorithm to generate movement costs away from the centroids of Andean valleys reportedly controlled by the Wari empire. This GIS-based approach is used to model areas of spatial control in relation to administrative sites (see also Hare 2004).…”

Section: Geographic Information Sciencementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Analytical tools that abstract and/or idealize human-space relationships are not as common. Important exceptions do exist (e.g., Blanton 2004;Drennan and Peterson 2004;Hare 2004;Nelson and Schollmeyer 2003), but even these cases are much more sophisticated than their progenitors. Complementing the old techniques are new tools such as GIS-based landscape modeling and agentoriented computer simulation that arguably provide more contingent and realistic reconstructions of human interaction with and across regional space.…”

Section: Concluding Commentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Archaeology of Regions: From Discrete Analytical Toolkit to Ubiquitous Spatial Perspective

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In the 1970s and 1980s, regional analysis was an influential part of archaeological research, providing a discrete set of geographical tools inspired by a processual epistemological and interpretive perspective. With the advent of new technologies, new methods, and new paradigms, archaeological research on regional space has undergone significant changes. This article reviews the state of regional archaeology, beginning with a consideration of its history and a discussion of the fundamental issues facing regional investigations before focusing on developments over the last several years. On one hand, the diversification of archaeological theory has created new paradigms for thinking about human relationships with one another and with the physical environment across regional space; in this regard, historical ecology, landscape archaeology, and evolutionary theory have been particularly influential in recent years. This has led to a corresponding diversification of the traditional methods of regional analysis. Most notably, the advent of powerful digital technologies has introduced new tools, especially those from the geographic information sciences, that build on the quantitative methods of past approaches. The investigation of regional data is no longer based on a discrete toolkit of simple mathematical and graphical procedures for representing spatial relationships. Instead, regional archaeology has matured into a diversity of multiscalar spatial and geostatistical techniques that inform many areas of archaeological inquiry.

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2007

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“…We have begun to see spatial technology used to study global-scale migrations (Anderson and Gillam 2000;Field and Lahr 2006) as well as regional-scale interaction (Hare 2004;Kantner 2004). Still others have centered on achieving a phenomenological understanding of ritual spaces associated with the anthropology of bodily movement (Llobera 2000).…”

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New Developments in the Use of Spatial Technology in Archaeology

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Spatial technology is integral to how archaeologists collect, store, analyze, and represent information in digital data sets. Recent advances have improved our ability to look for and identify archaeological remains and have increased the size and complexity of our data sets. In this review we outline trends in visualization, data management, archaeological prospecting, modeling, and spatial analysis, as well as key advances in hardware and software. Due to developments in education, information technology, and landscape archaeology, the implementation of spatial technology has begun to move beyond superficial applications and is no longer limited to environmental deterministic approaches. In the future, spatial technology will increasingly change archaeology in ways that will enable us to become better practitioners, scholars, and stewards.

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“…As pointed out by Blanton (2001), New World survey research is far more problem oriented and theoretically informed than work in the Mediterranean, if less sophisticated in its methods. One area where New World surveys do not lag behind their counterparts in the Mediterranean is in the use of GIS and other spatial technologies and approaches (Anaya Hernández, 2001;Estrada Belli, 1999;Gutiérrez Mendoza et al, 2000;Hare, 2004;Jennings and Craig, 2001).…”

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New World States and Empires: Politics, Religion, and Urbanism

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Schreiber

2006

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The past decade has seen a veritable explosion in archaeological research on complex societies in Latin America. In 1993, Smith published an overview of research to that date; this article is one of two bringing that summary up to the present. Our first article, New World states and empires: Economic and social organization (Smith and Schreiber, 2005), dealt with issues regarding economic and social organization. The present article tackles political organization and dynamics, religion, urbanism, and settlement patterns. We also review recent research in the context of various theoretical perspectives, some traditional, some more contemporary, including approaches to history and process, cultural evolution, agency-based models, linguistic prehistory, migration theory, and the relationship between environmental change and cultural events. Our discussion blends empirical findings, methodological advances, and theoretical perspectives.

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Using measures of cost distance in the estimation of polity boundaries in the Postclassic Yautepec valley, Mexico

Cited by 41 publications

References 20 publications

The Archaeology of Regions: From Discrete Analytical Toolkit to Ubiquitous Spatial Perspective

The Archaeology of Regions: From Discrete Analytical Toolkit to Ubiquitous Spatial Perspective

New Developments in the Use of Spatial Technology in Archaeology

New World States and Empires: Politics, Religion, and Urbanism

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