New Geospatial Approaches to the Anthropological Sciences, 1st Edition

.Spatial analysis reaches across all the subdisciplines of anthropology. A cultural anthropologist, for example, can use such analysis to trace the extent of distinctive cultural practices; an archaeologist can use it to understand the organization of ancient irrigation systems; a primatologist to quantify the density of primate nesting sites; a paleoanthropologist to explore vast fossil-bearing landscapes.Arguing that geospatial analysis holds great promise for much anthropological inquiry, the contributors have designed this volume to show how the powerful tools of GIScience can be used to benefit a variety of research programs. This volume brings together scholars who are currently applying state-of-the-art tools, techniques, and methods of geographical information sciences (GIScience) to diverse data sets of anthropological interest. Their questions crosscut the typical “silos” that so often limit scholarly communication among anthropologists and instead recognize a deep structural similarity between the kinds of questions anthropologists ask, the data they collect, and the analytical models and paradigms they each use.New Geospatial Approaches to the Anthropological Sciences 1st Edition is written by Robert L. Anemone; Glenn C. Conroy and published by University of New Mexico Press Published in Association with School for Advanced Research Press. ISBNs for New Geospatial Approaches to the Anthropological Sciences are 9780826359681, 082635968X and the print ISBNs are 9780826359674, 0826359671.