(abstract of a conference paper presented at TheoQant conference held in Besançon, 20 – 22 may 2015 [abstract book here]) The Earth’s surface or terrain is most commonly represented in Geographic Information Systems as a gridded matrix, the raster. Somewhat less often, so called triangulated irregular networks (TIN) are used as well. These two data […]
Month: May 2016
Natural places and archaeology
First time I heard of something like “natural places” was some ten years ago at a conference in Slovenia. Several, mostly young researchers were proud to demonstrate an existence of non-man-made features on their sites, features that apparently gained a symbolic value before or during human habitation. For instance, trees that were incorporated in Neolithic […]