Archaeological GIS

Making Archaeology Teaching Relevant in the Twentieth Century

ARCHAEOLOGICAL GIS

Course

Dean Snow
Department of Anthropology
Pennsylvania State University
drs17@psu.edu

This course is designed to meet two general goals at once. First, students are introduced to currently popular GIS software packages. They learn the basics of data input and analysis as well as techniques for importing GIS data from a variety of outside sources. The second goal is to instruct students in the design and execution of solutions to archaeological problems using GIS as an analytic tool.

Teaching Statement
Approach, rationale, and overview
Matrix Principles
Institutional Context of Course
Course Development

Course Artifacts
Course Goals
Syllabus

Lectures	Homework	Labs
01: Introduction to GIS	01: Planning a GIS	01: Intro to ArcGIS I
02: Introduction to ArcGIS	02: Explor ArcGIS	02: Intro to ArcGIS II
03: Projections and Coordinate Systems	03: Data Sets and Projections	03: Map Projections
04: Vector Data Models	04: Vector and Raster Mapping	04: Vector Data Overview
05: Vector Data Creation	05: Georeferencing and Digitizing	05: Vector Data Creation
06: Raster Data Overview	06: Database Design	06: Raster Data Types
07: Data Display	07: Vector and Raster Analysis	07: Rasters and Goereferencing
08: Introduction to Databases	08: Modeling Critique	08: Data Classification Display
09: Database Design		09: Basics of Microsoft Access
10: Spatial Analysis of Vector Data		10: Build Relational Database
11: Spatial Analysis of Raster Data		11: Vector Data Analysis
12: Terrain Mapping		12: Raster Data II
13: GIS Data Modeling		13: Terrain Mapping Exercises
		14: Predictive Modeling

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