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Computing and testing extensive total viewsheds: a case of prehistoric burial mounds in Bohemia
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SYSNO ASEP 0558276 Document Type J - Journal Article R&D Document Type Journal Article Subsidiary J Článek ve WOS Title Computing and testing extensive total viewsheds: a case of prehistoric burial mounds in Bohemia Author(s) Kuna, Martin (ARU-G) RID, SAI, ORCID
Novák, David (ARU-G) RID, ORCID, SAI
Bucha Rášová, A. (SK)
Bucha, B. (SK)
Machová, Barbora (ARU-G) ORCID
Havlice, J. (CZ)
John, J. (CZ)
Chvojka, O. (CZ)Number of authors 8 Article number 105596 Source Title Journal of Archaeological Science. - : Elsevier - ISSN 0305-4403
Roč. 142, June (2022)Number of pages 14 s. Publication form Print - P Language eng - English Country GB - United Kingdom Keywords total viewshed ; visibility studies ; landscape relief ; barrow cemeteries ; Bohemia Subject RIV AC - Archeology, Anthropology, Ethnology OECD category Archaeology R&D Projects EF16_013/0001439 GA MŠMT - Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS) Research Infrastructure AIS CR II - 90134 - Archeologický ústav AV ČR, Brno, v. v. i.
IT4Innovations - 90070 - Vysoká škola báňská - Technická univerzita OstravaMethod of publishing Limited access Institutional support ARU-G - RVO:67985912 UT WOS 000919208000002 EID SCOPUS 85128224026 DOI 10.1016/j.jas.2022.105596 Annotation The paper reports on the progress in the field of total viewshed computation, which was made by the joint efforts of several Slovak and Czech research institutions. The result of the project is eight total viewsheds calculated for the whole territory of Bohemia (57,000 km2) with a relatively high resolution (grid from 5 × 5 to 320 × 320 m, visibility radii from 0.5 to 64 km). Through the principal component analysis, the viewsheds were further processed and derived datasets were created defining the most important gradients of visual affordances of the Bohemian landscape. On a sample of archaeological sites (barrow cemeteries from a part of South Bohemia), it was examined how the resulting models could be interpreted and whether the identified visibility gradients affected people’s behaviour in the past, namely the location of their funerary monuments. On the one hand, this study shows that non-random relationships of this type existed, but on the other hand, visibility itself may not always have been the only (or the main) factor in past behaviour, even if it is related to above-standard places in terms of visibility. All total-viewshed datasets are made available for further research through public repository. Workplace Institute of Archaeology (Prague) Contact Lada Šlesingerová, slesingerova@arup.cas.cz, Tel.: 257 014 412 Year of Publishing 2023 Electronic address https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440322000541?via%3Dihub
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