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DOI	10.1002/arp.1885
	Integrating spatial and legacy data to understand archaeological sites in their landscape. A case study from Unguja Ukuu, Zanzibar
	Fitton, Tom; Sulas, Federica; Lisowski, Mik; Alexander, Michelle; Juma, Abdurahman; Wynne-Jones, Stephanie
通讯作者	Fitton, T
来源期刊	ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROSPECTION
ISSN	1075-2196
EISSN	1099-0763
出版年	2023
卷号	30 期号:2 页码:185-208
英文摘要	Spatial analysis is paramount for understanding, monitoring, and conserving ancient settlements and cultural landscapes. Advancing remote sensing and prospection techniques are expanding the methodological frame of archaeological settlement analysis by enabling remote, landscape-scale approaches to mapping and investigation. Whilst particularly effective in arid lands and areas with sparse or open ground cover, such as vegetation and buildings, these approaches remain peripheral in tropical environments because of technical and contextual challenges. In tropical Eastern Africa, for example, scales, resolution and visibility are often compromised by thick vegetation cover, inadequate access to, if not lack of, imagery resources and technologies, and the availability of comparative archaeological data for interpretation. This paper presents the initial results of spatial analysis, using historic landscape characterisation, remote sensing, published and legacy data, and a pilot ground survey to examine the earliest settlement of Zanzibar, Unguja Ukuu. Comparing multiple strands of evidence in a Geographic Information System (GIS), we use each as a test on the others to draw out the strengths and weaknesses of each technique in the context of tropical and coastal Eastern Africa. Drone photogrammetry, geophysical prospection, and ground survey were compared with legacy remote sensing resources and the results of a coring survey conducted across the site during the 1990s into a GIS platform to produce multi-phase hypothetical maps of the archaeological site in the context of its potential resource landscape. These were then tested against the results of recent excavations. The discussion highlights the challenges and potential of combining these techniques in the context of Eastern Africa and provides some suggested methods for doing so. We show that remote sensing techniques give an insight into current landscapes but are less useful in understanding or modelling how sites would have fitted into their surroundings in the past, when conditions were potentially very different.
英文关键词	historic landscape characterisation legacy data remote sensing spatial analysis sub-Saharan Africa urban ecology
类型	Article
语种	英语
开放获取类型	Green Accepted, Green Published, hybrid
收录类别	SCI-E ; AHCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000892448300001
WOS关键词	GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY ; SONGO MNARA ; GLASS-BEADS ; SWAHILI ; AFRICA ; TRADE ; COAST
WOS类目	Archaeology ; Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
WOS研究方向	Archaeology ; Geology
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/395422
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Fitton, Tom,Sulas, Federica,Lisowski, Mik,et al. Integrating spatial and legacy data to understand archaeological sites in their landscape. A case study from Unguja Ukuu, Zanzibar[J],2023,30(2):185-208.
APA	Fitton, Tom,Sulas, Federica,Lisowski, Mik,Alexander, Michelle,Juma, Abdurahman,&Wynne-Jones, Stephanie.(2023).Integrating spatial and legacy data to understand archaeological sites in their landscape. A case study from Unguja Ukuu, Zanzibar.ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROSPECTION,30(2),185-208.
MLA	Fitton, Tom,et al."Integrating spatial and legacy data to understand archaeological sites in their landscape. A case study from Unguja Ukuu, Zanzibar".ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROSPECTION 30.2(2023):185-208.