A Shipwreck Landscape Spatial Statistical Analysis

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Re-Visualizing Submerged Landscapes", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

Almost all underwater archaeologists admit that it is fundamental to use spatial analysis in their investigations. However, when looking at academic production, we may say that the use of GIS has become common, but as a method of representation and visualization of spatial data and as a basis for the production of maps.

Inspired by spatial statistical methods that are already applied in terrestrial situations, we would like to go further, applying them to underwater contexts and developing other methods purposely for underwater challenges. This way, through the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) integrated with R and with the collected data, it will be possible to reconstruct deposition dynamics, its environment and explore distribution patterns, analysing a shipwreck landscape.

Our proposed process was tested in two different cases, allowing us to statistically compare our results with the first visual perceptions, and mathematically confirm or refute those interpretations.

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• Re-Visualizing Submerged Landscapes   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2023

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Contact(s): Nicole Haddow