Exploring the topography of mind: GIS, social space and archaeology

1996/09/01 by Marcos Llobera · 3 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Social Sciences · #Archaeology #Archaeology and ancient environmental studies #Cartography #Computer science #Geographic information system #Geography #Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology #Prehistory #Space (punctuation) #Visibility

paper · doi:10.1017/s0003598x00083745

openalex publication_date 1996/09/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/08

Abstract

The later-prehistoric linear ditches that divide the chalk landscape of Wessex, south England, are markers in an area. It is a topographic space. The ditches seem to be placed with a view to their visibility in the landscape. It is a human topographic space. A GIS study of the ditches' place, in terms of what a human sees in moving acros undulating ground, goes beyond that environmental determinism which underlies many GIS studies.

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