UCL Institute of Archaeology

GIS

GIS refers to the software (Geographic Information Systems), as well as the methods and theory (Geographic Information Science), used to manage, present and analyse spatial data. In fact, the vast majority of archaeological information has some kind of locational information associated with it and is therefore often best handled via GIS. At the Institute of Archaeology, we are interested in the full scope of GIS applications, from advanced spatial statistical analysis, to the huge potential of spatial data-sharing online, to the many opportunities for GIS engagement with post-processual theory, to the thorny issues associated with spatial record-keeping for cultural heritage management.

Research

Projects

• Antikythera Survey Project
• Computational Modelling and Human Use of Space
• Early peopling of Central and South America
• Kythera Island Project
• Landscapes of Governance
• Restructuring the social and social-ecological sciences in the 21st Century
• Salinisation in Mesopotamia
• Sanchi Survey Project
• SHULGI: A Geospatial Tool for Modelling Human Movement and Interaction

Networks

• Imperial Logistics: The Making of the Terracotta Army (IoA network)

Centres

• Centre for Applied Archaeology

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People

• Mark Altaweel
• Andrew Bevan
• Stuart Brookes
• Enrico Crema
  
• Sean Downey
• Kevan Edinborough
• Mark Lake
• James Steele

Degrees

• MA in the Archaeology of the Middle East
• MA in Managing Archaeological Sites
• MA in Urban Archaeology
• MSc in GIS and Spatial Analysis in Archaeology

Courses

graduate

• Model-Building in Archaeology
• Geographic Information Systems in Archaeology I
• Geographic Information Systems in Archaeology II
• Approaches to the Human Use of Space
• Pattern and Process in the Archaeology of the Middle East
• Spatial analysis in archaeology
• Research skills for spatial analysis
• Remote Sensing in Archaeology

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