Questions tagged [archaeology]
The study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture.
26
questions
0
votes
1
answer
51
views
How to chose a Vector layer, chose a field, then chose values using parameterAsEnums
I'm coding an archaeological site prediction model. Researchers are able to load multipolygons (i.e. soil type, landform), choose the field to 'weight' or 'rank'. My data has both soil and landform ...
- 67
1
vote
1
answer
61
views
Freehand Editing 3 polygons not showing up
I'm using the Freehand Editing 3 plugin for QGIS 3.22.9 and I cannot get the polygons to show up. Currently I am digitizing archaeological drawings and I just don't want to draw every feature by ...
- 11
0
votes
0
answers
37
views
Choosing CRS to georeference map from 1857 (North America)
I am trying to georeference a map in QGIS from Beale's Expedition of 1957-1858, using coordinates he recorded for camps in his daily log.
Here is the map: https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/...
0
votes
0
answers
21
views
Max Ent enviromental layers for archaeology
First, I have to put you in context. I got trouble with some of my raster layers, I'm trying to apply max ent in archaeology. What I want to do is to predict the areas where are a higher probability ...
0
votes
1
answer
102
views
Raster to CSV or XYZ
I'm trying to apply spatial data mining to a set of vector and raster files so I need a way to convert my raster archives into a CSV in order to run the mining
A little bit of background, my thesis is ...
4
votes
1
answer
716
views
Drawing multiple parallel lines with set distance within polygon using QGIS
I need to draw a series of parallel lines, within a polygon (See example below). Previously I have used MapInfo for this (Easy to draw a grid and delete the horisontal lines), but my workplace is ...
- 43
3
votes
0
answers
100
views
Finding features with equal distance for houses in archaeological data using QGIS [closed]
My goal is to find house sketches in archaeological data.
I have a shapefile from an excavation where all the archaeological features, mainly pits are measured as polygons. The polygons have different ...
- 47
1
vote
1
answer
74
views
ArcGIS Closest Facility with anisotropic round trips?
I'm working on a network analysis of an urban archaeological site where I'm running a closest facility analysis on some 2000 structures to specific features within the city. I've segmented the road ...
- 67
2
votes
1
answer
225
views
Direction of the orientation of shortest lines by Geometry Generator - Archaeological hachures symbol
I am creating, by Geometry Generator, an archaeological graphical style for lines. The goal is to be able to create automatically "hachures" that connect the external perimeter to the internal line (...
- 3,808
1
vote
2
answers
263
views
Adding two values into a categorized symbology in order to toggle both values on and off
I'm representing an archaeological site in QGIS and I have expressed the multiple contexts (stratigraphic units) as polygons with categorized symbology so that the client can toggle off and on the ...
- 11
1
vote
1
answer
191
views
Defining grid-names: Setting up a 1m2 grid over a 100x100 meter area
I'm working on an old archaeological field-survey dataset from the 1960's. I'm trying to create a polygon grid (fishnet) over a specific area where I can give the individual 'tiles'of the grid an ...
- 11
1
vote
1
answer
204
views
Identifying flat-ish hilltops in a DEM?
I am working on a project where I need to identify the area of a hilltop that is relatively flat within which stone structures could be built before the slope becomes too great to build without having ...
- 11
2
votes
2
answers
817
views
Cost raster/friction map and data extraction
I am in an early stage of least cost paths analysis of a wide area. One part of the operation includes simulation of movement across the grid of previously agreed size of cells and extent of the grid (...
1
vote
1
answer
136
views
Altering existing DEM to approximate its ancient equivalent?
I'd like to modify a DEM to approximate what an area looked like 3000 years ago, which primarily involves adjusting coastlines based on scattered core sample data. It doesn't have to be ...
- 373
1
vote
0
answers
41
views
Is there a way to evaluate how realistic an r.drain-generated ideal walking path is in the real world?
I generated an idealized walking path between two points using terrain data and r.drain.
I'm attempting to visualize the pathway that may have connected two sites occupied in antiquity.
However, ...
- 373
5
votes
0
answers
653
views
Local grids with rotated north in QGIS
Like many people in geology and archaeology I need to work with local grids that have eastings and northings from a specific reference point, and typically have a difference alignment/direction of ...
- 51
4
votes
3
answers
1k
views
QGIS 3.2 atlas with set of points
I have a shapefile with 100k points. I want to create an atlas that would only show set of points having the same specific attribute.
gid;geom;id_coupe;symb
3572;"POINT(1.79008147341714 5.93)";"...
- 1,194
5
votes
0
answers
611
views
Drawing archaeological sections in QGIS
I'm trying to figure out a way to draw archeological sections in QGIS (example). We currently only draw the layers and features digitally (like this). When we make a section of features or a profile ...
- 71
1
vote
0
answers
75
views
projection and coordinate system for non georeferenced archaeological site [duplicate]
I'm an archaeology student working on a recent project and I'm wondering how to set my arcGIS project. I'm used to work with geographical data in ArcGIS on a large scale, but the current project is ...
- 21
3
votes
0
answers
139
views
Display points with lowest elevation within a 1m2 grid - QGIS 2.18.2
I have a few thousand points measured with totalstation from an archaeological site. The points are measured quite unevenly which makes TIN triangulation and subsequent DEM generation a mess. Some ...
- 63
2
votes
0
answers
47
views
Spatial Autocorrelation with a low number input feature
I am an archaeologist using ArcGIS to run spatial statistics/analyses on my data. I want to study the spatial autocorrelation of artifact categories found within house structures across an ...
- 21
7
votes
2
answers
435
views
Improve DTM under forested areas without smoothing?
I'm using a DTM retrieved from LiDAR data and I noticed that forested areas are grainy or not defined. The DTM data was retrieved from geostore.com. Here is one example:
Is there any way to directly ...
- 663
1
vote
2
answers
290
views
Archaeological spatiotemporal map using QGIS TimeManager?
I have been trying to use TimeManager to make a spatiotemporal map of artefacts found on a archaeological site.
My goal is to show if there is areas on the site wich concentrates artefacts having ...
- 11
0
votes
1
answer
1k
views
Free/Open-Source Archaeological Geophysics Program?
Does anyone know a free/open source software or a GIS plugin for working with archaeological geophysics data, especially for data from a magnetic survey (magnetic gradiometer map)?
3
votes
4
answers
400
views
Choosing most suitable GIS for archaeology? [closed]
I will start on project in archaeology where I'll have to start using GIS. I only tried using ArcGIS a while ago but for the rest i have no experience.
What platform would you suggest I start on?
...
- 1,558
12
votes
5
answers
4k
views
Seeking free Archaeology datasets? [closed]
Are there any sites that gather free archaeology datasets?