Great houses, shrines, and high places: Intervisibility in the Chacoan world

These are the viewsheds, viewnet, and site location data as calculated for

Ruth M. Van Dyke, R. Kyle Bocinsky, Tucker Robinson, and Thomas C. Windes, Great houses, shrines, and high places: Intervisibility in the Chacoan World, American Antiquity 81, pp. 205–230 (2016).

The data include three files: A site database of site locations and information; A GML network file where nodes are the sites, and edges represent intervisibility between sites; and a sub-collection with viewsheds from each site. The viewsheds are named using the "UNIQUE_ID" field in the shapefile.

This confidential version of the database contains site locations. To obtain access to this confidential version with site locations, you must demonstrate that you have permission from the managers of the statewide site files in the four states. Contact Kyle Bocinsky (bocinsky@gmail.com) or Ruth Van Dyke (rvandyke@binghamton.edu) for access.

Other Keywords
Visibility studies • Chaco

Culture Keywords
Ancestral Puebloan

Investigation Types
Archaeological Overview • Remote Sensing

Geographic Keywords
New Mexico (State / Territory) • Arizona (State / Territory) • United States of America (Country) • North America (Continent) • USA (Country)

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  • Site location and metadata from: Great houses, shrines, and high places: Intervisibility in the Chacoan world (2016)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Kyle Bocinsky.

    These are the site location and metadata used in: Ruth M. Van Dyke, R. Kyle Bocinsky, Tucker Robinson, and Thomas C. Windes, Great houses, shrines, and high places: Intervisibility in the Chacoan World, American Antiquity 81, pp. 205–230 (2016). See other datasets in this project for site viewsheds and the viewnets between sites. The data are in the GeoJSON format, and link to the other files in this project using the "UNIQUE_ID" field. The file should be readable by most modern GIS...

  • Viewnet data from: Great houses, shrines, and high places: Intervisibility in the Chacoan world (2016)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text R. Kyle Bocinsky.

    These are the site viewnet data used in: Ruth M. Van Dyke, R. Kyle Bocinsky, Tucker Robinson, and Thomas C. Windes, Great houses, shrines, and high places: Intervisibility in the Chacoan World, American Antiquity 81, pp. 205–230 (2016). See other datasets in this project for site data, locations, and viewsheds. The data are a network in the Graph Modeling Language (GML) format where nodes are the sites, and edges represent intervisibility between sites. The nodes are named using the...