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Beyond the scale. Building formal approaches for the study of spatial patterns in Galician moundscapes (NW Iberian Peninsula)

Carrero-Pazos, M; (2018) Beyond the scale. Building formal approaches for the study of spatial patterns in Galician moundscapes (NW Iberian Peninsula). Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports , 19 pp. 538-551. 10.1016/j.jasrep.2018.03.026. Green open access

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Abstract

In Galicia, works that studied the megalithic locational patterns developed only fieldwork-based approaches. As a result, the locational criteria were defined using ideas through a direct analysis at field, and never have been quantified and modelled with GIS methods until nowadays. In this work, a GIS methodology and a point pattern approach for the study of megalithic locational patterns is carried out. Starting from the definition of locational factors managed by literature, a number of first and second order properties were converted into spatial variables. From this point, specific regularities among the distribution of sites were established, which allows to determine trends in Galician megalithic occupation and open new possibilities of analysis in the study of Galician megalithic landscapes.

Type: Article
Title: Beyond the scale. Building formal approaches for the study of spatial patterns in Galician moundscapes (NW Iberian Peninsula)
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2018.03.026
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2018.03.026
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: Megalithism, Galicia, Spatial statistics, Predictive modelling, Point pattern, GRASS GIS, R statistics
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Institute of Archaeology
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Institute of Archaeology > Institute of Archaeology Gordon Square
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10121214
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