Archaeological settlement pattern analysis in the Amazon Basin
In partnership with archaeologist Prof. Dr.?Klaus Hilbert from?the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) (Brazil) and her research group at the Universit?t Augsburg, Prof. Timpf co-led an initiative to develop an?Interactive WebGIS for archaeological settlement pattern analysis in the Amazon Basin. The project assembled a database of prehistoric settlement sites in Amazonia, designed a web-GIS interface and visual analytics tools to support archaeologists in exploring spatial and temporal patterns of habitation and human-environment interactions in a region where data is often incomplete or scattered.?The project was funded through ProBral, which is a cooperation programme between Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) and CAPES (Brazilian Federal Agency for Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education).
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The work brings together geoinformatics methods, spatial data modelling and archaeology, offering a platform to handle heterogeneous archaeological data (site locations, typology, environment) and enabling users with limited GIS experience to carry out statistical and exploratory spatial analyses.
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Publications
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| Groote-Bidlingmaier, Carolin von (2017): Developing a Data Driven Approach for the Analysis of Functional Settlement Pattern Considering Environmental Space. PDF | BibTeX | RIS |
| Soentgen, Jens, Hilbert, Klaus, Groote-Bidlingmaier, Carolin von, Herzog-Schr?der, Gabriele, Erich Pabst, Eije, Timpf, Sabine (2017): Terra preta de índio: commodification and mythification of the amazonian dark earths. https://doi.org/10.14512/gaia.26.2.18 PDF | BibTeX | RIS | DOI |
| Groote-Bidlingmaier, Carolin von, Klaus, Hilbert, Schwer, Johannes Christoph, Timpf, Sabine (2015): Interactive WebGIS for archaeological settlement pattern analysis – a requirement analysis. BibTeX | RIS | URL |
| Groote-Bidlingmaier, Carolin von, Timpf, Sabine, Klaus, Hilbert (2014): Estimating Moving Regions out of Point Data – from Excavation Sites in the Amazon region to Areas of Influence of Prehistoric Cultures. BibTeX | RIS |
| Groote-Bidlingmaier, Carolin von, Timpf, Sabine, Klaus, Hilbert (2014): Erstellung von potenziellen Einflussgebieten auf der Basis von arch?ologischen Ausgrabungsorten – am Beispiel pr?historischer Kulturen im Amazonasgebiet. BibTeX | RIS |
| Groote-Bidlingmaier, Carolin von, Timpf, Sabine (2012): Modeling and analysis of migration movement of pre-colonial cultures in the Amazon basin. BibTeX | RIS |
