Abstract
Developing a GIS for the "Lost City of the Pyramids" Track: Archaeology Author(s): Farrah Brown Excavations by the Giza Plateau Mapping Project (GPMP) at a 4,500-year-old settlement site just south of the Sphinx have revealed infrastructure that may have supported generations of pyramid construction at Giza, Egypt. In 2005, we began development of a GIS to integrate and analyze the multitude of data recovered during excavation, survey, and remote-sensing activities over the last 15 years. Although it is an enormous undertaking, a feature-level GIS will provide great benefits for analysis and management of this important archaeological and World Heritage site. Over the course of this project, we aim to disseminate methods, lessons learned, and results to the broader GIS and archaeological communities in an effort to stimulate discussion and contribute to a more detailed "best practice" of GIS implementation in archaeology. This paper summarizes our progress thus far, while describing possible methods, as well as the challenges, of representing archaeological features in a GIS. Farrah Brown Ancient Egypt Research Associates, Inc. Giza Plateau Mapping Project 1133A Broad Street Augusta , GA 30901 US Phone: 706-722-1731 E-mail: farrah.brown@gmail.com |
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