1. The Long and Winding Road: Combining Least Cost Paths and Network Analysis Techniques for Settlement Location Analysis and Predictive Modelling
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Brughmans, Tom, Nuninger, Laure, Bertoncello, Frédérique, Verhagen, Philip, Earl, Graeme, University of Southampton, Laboratoire Chrono-environnement - CNRS - UBFC (UMR 6249) (LCE), Université de Franche-Comté (UFC), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC)-Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Culture et Environnements, Préhistoire, Antiquité, Moyen-Age (CEPAM), Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (... - 2019) (UNS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA), Cultural Landscape and Urban Environment (CLUE), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam [Amsterdam] (VU), Philip Verhagen, Graeme Earl, Archaeological Computing Research Group, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Franche-Comté (UFC), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC)-Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC), Maison des Sciences de l'Homme et de l'Environnement Claude Nicolas Ledoux (UAR 3124) (MSHE), PHC Van Gogh 2010-2011 (MAE), Iza Romanowska, Patricia Murrieta Flores, Costas Papadopoulos and Angeliki Chrysanthi, Projet IHAPMA, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme et de l'Environnement Claude Nicolas Ledoux (MSHE), Cultural Landscape and Urban Environment ( CLUE ), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam [Amsterdam] ( VU ), University of Southampton (Southampton, UK), Laboratoire Chrono-environnement ( LCE ), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté ( UBFC ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ) -Université de Franche-Comté ( UFC ), Maison des Sciences de l'Homme et de l'Environnement Claude Nicolas Ledoux ( MSHE ), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ) -Université de Franche-Comté ( UFC ), Culture et Environnements, Préhistoire, Antiquité, Moyen-Age ( CEPAM ), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis ( UNS ), Université Côte d'Azur ( UCA ) -Université Côte d'Azur ( UCA ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), and Iza Romanowska, Patricia Murrieta Flores, Costas Papadopoulos and Angeliki Chrysanthi
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010506 paleontology ,regional comparison ,[SHS.ARCHEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Archaeology and Prehistory ,Movement ,Network science ,facteurs socio-culturels ,01 natural sciences ,diachronic comparison ,[SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences ,0601 history and archaeology ,comparaison diachronique ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,comparaison régionale ,[SHS.STAT]Humanities and Social Sciences/Methods and statistics ,060102 archaeology ,Least Cost Paths ,Predictive modelling ,Space Syntax ,Roman period ,archaeology ,06 humanities and the arts ,période romaine ,[SHS.GEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Geography ,GIS ,Accessibility ,[INFO.INFO-MO]Computer Science [cs]/Modeling and Simulation ,landscape archaeology ,socio-cultural factors ,[ SHS.ARCHEO ] Humanities and Social Sciences/Archaeology and Prehistory ,Modélisation prédictive ,Network Analysis - Abstract
International audience; In this paper, we describe an exploratory analysis of the possibilities of combining least cost path analysis and network analysis techniques. Accessibility is a potentially important site location factor. So far, the definition of accessibility has been approached through the creation of accumulated cost surfaces and least cost paths. However, these methods do not provide direct information on the foci of movement. Starting from networks created from least cost paths, network analysis and space syntax were used to obtain additional information on the structural features of the network. It is concluded that both techniques can be used with least cost path-based networks, and will provide new insights into the characteristics of the network. For most applications however the Space syntax measures that take the geographical dimension into account seem to be preferable to the simple network analysis measures used here.
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- 2014
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