Watchful realms: integrating GIS analysis and political history in the southern Maya lowlands

• Autores: James A. Doyle, Thomas G. Garrison, Stephen D. Houston
• Localización: Antiquity, ISSN 0003-598X, Vol. 86, Nº 333, 2012, págs. 792-807
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Travellers naturally prefer to use the most passable routes and establish staging points on the way. Cost surface analysis predicts the easiest routes and viewshed analysis the territory visible from a staging point or destination. Applying these GIS techniques to the Buenavista Valley Corridor, our authors write a history of travel and exchange that vividly reflects the rivalry of two polities and the rise and fall of their nodal settlements