Abstract

Spatio-temporal Analysis of Early Religious Dissemination
Track: Archaeology
Author(s): Kirk Kolstad

GIS has played a role in the visual display of cultural and historic data with the traditional "dots on the map" two dimensional approach. There are significant challenges to adding the dimension of time to spatial analysis. I am creating a methodology to stack layers of time in geographic space and provide artifacts within this framework the attribute interconnectivity needed to trace the evolution of a symbol, image, saying or idea across time. This provides students and researchers a user friendly tool to analyze and display temporal relations of early religious ideology and its cross-pollination and dissemination across the Eurasian region.

Kirk Kolstad
University of Redlands
1111 Central Ave Apt 9
redlands , California 92374
United States
Phone: 817-243-5143
E-mail: kirk_kolstad@institute.redlands.edu