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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Marcos Llobera
Marcos Llobera*
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Donald Baden-Powell Quaternary Research Centre, University of Oxford, 60 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6PN, England
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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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Antiquity , Volume 70 , Issue 269 , September 1996 , pp. 612 - 622
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1996

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