Spatial analysis in archaeology: Historical developments and modern applications

dc.contributor.author	Rood, Ronald J.
dc.date.accessioned	2008-12-06T04:42:00Z
dc.date.available	2008-12-06T04:42:00Z
dc.date.issued	1982
dc.identifier.citation	Rood, Ronald J. (1982). Spatial analysis in archaeology: Historical developments and modern applications. -- Lambda Alpha Journal of Man, v.14, p.25-60.	en
dc.identifier.issn	0047-3928
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10057/1768
dc.description.abstract	Author presents a critical survey of the development and present state of spatial analyses in archaeology. He traces the root of spatial analysis to Tonnies' distinction between naturally defined spatial relationships and socially defined spatial conventions. He discusses its subsequent development through the Austro-German anthropogeographers, and its fissioning into a variety of spatial theories adapted two different social sciences. He provides an excellent tour d'horizon of these different theories and their archaeological applications, as well as attempting to define the directions in which these theories are likely to develop. Perhaps the most significant direction is toward a 'structural archaeology,' where the physical expressions of a culture may be viewed as elements in a system amenable to structuraL analysis.	en
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dc.language	English (United States)	en
dc.language.iso	en_US	en
dc.publisher	Lambda Alpha Anthropology Honors Society at Wichita State University	en
dc.relation.ispartofseries	LAJ	en
dc.relation.ispartofseries	v.14	en
dc.subject	Spatial analysis	en
dc.subject	Archaeology	en
dc.subject	Spatial units	en
dc.subject	Spatial boundaries	en
dc.subject	Territories	en
dc.title	Spatial analysis in archaeology: Historical developments and modern applications	en
dc.type	Article	en