15:50:32 >>CHRISTINE: If you can, please.
15:50:32 Let's write to me.
15:50:32 Is that right for everybody else?
15:50:41 I will try and race through here.
15:50:42 So thank you so much for allowing me to speak here today.
15:50:45 To the wonderful presentations that I just saw, some wonderful ideas here.
15:51:02 I'm presenting some of my recent research concerning connectivity between ancient farmsteads and sanctuaries at a Greek colony.
15:51:07 I'm just going to start with some really brief history which is the beginning of the ninth century many Greek cities sent ships to colonized areas of the water Mediterranean even as far as the Black Sea, Asia Minor, Italy, and Sicily.
15:51:17 Met upon some within ancient Greece city, a colony found along the coast of southern Italy in the eighth to the seventh century.
15:51:31 If you can see my mouse, it is right here with the Latin name made of pontoon showing right there right on the instep of that Italian boot.
15:51:32 And so the city was settled in this foundation was made up largely of two parts.
15:51:44 You have the really busy urban center which the Greeks would call the Asti, I'm so sorry captioner I called the and the cultivating culture side is stretching over 20 kilometers in land called the Cora.
15:51:52 And so for the past four years or so members of the medical bond archaeological project had been performing the service survey in the countryside or the Cora of Oconto.
15:52:11 And service survey which is what is happening right behind me here is basically just walking modern farmers fields and documenting the location of service level artifacts that have been brought up to the surface just over time and through plowing.
15:52:27 Areas that have a really high density of ceramic materials, you can see it just appeared in blue of here, these areas are log geographically using a GPS device in ArcGIS collector app, and then we are able to examine the artifact pieces and determine the type of sites that has been identified.
15:52:39 Sites which are things like cookware, loom weights, playing ceramic material, these are almost early going to be domestic sites where as anything with decorated ceramics, these would be sacred.
15:52:53 The result is this.
15:52:53 Over the course of the project we have lots well over 1000 sites in the countryside of met upon so, all of which is been geo-referenced in large within the project GIS.
15:53:01 Something else included in the GIS which was of great relevance to my research are these topographical anomalies that have been dated to antiquity.
15:53:20 So a number of topographic anomalies were identified with an aerial photography captured in the 1950s in the countryside surrounding meta-poncho.
15:53:21 You can see one of them here but it is actually really difficult to see.
15:53:21 I am going to zoom in and then maybe you can make it out here.
15:53:28 They present themselves as these linear discolorations in the landscape, quite amazingly they appear very regular intervals throughout the countryside.
15:53:37 While almost all scholars agree that these lines are representative of something deliberately produced in antiquity, the details of their purpose is still largely unidentified.
15:53:46 Theories range from irrigation channels to roads to even a very calculated an extensive system of property delineation.
15:53:46 It is unlikely that any of these theories really explain universally the appearance of these lines throughout the countryside.
15:54:00 Probably a combination of these factors are even yet unknown catalyst for the creation is going to be the safest hypothesis.
15:54:12 So these mysterious anomalies have been well documented since their discovery, and there geo-referencing and inclusion within the A has been very foundational to the methodology that have developed in my un research.
15:54:16 My research really surrounds a very simple question, which is what is the nature of the small sanctuaries identified in the countryside to the service survey.
15:54:31 Why do people visit the spaces?
15:54:32 It can of course adjust they had some sort of cultic purpose but did they serve political and social function functions as well.
15:54:32 These are the questions I am still working very hard to answer, but one of the ways I attempted to do this is by using tools within GIS.
15:54:49 First I selected exurban sanctuaries or settlements for studies using something called the equivalent artifact weight.
15:54:59 We don't need to get into it but it is just a very helpful indicator of site significance and it helps me create a curated collection of centuries in rural settlements in the countryside with enough material to be very certain of the datable activity.
15:54:59 Then I used least cost path to digitally construct routes between farmsteads and the nearest sanctuary.
15:55:07 And then I examined these roots where they are suggestive of high traffic and I compare these with the famous meta-Pontine division lines of the Cora.
15:55:18 So this I thought might represent evidence of intentionality, that these roots were in part at least anthropogenic.
15:55:22 This is a result, it is a diachronic set of maps and illustrating physical connectivity with rural settlements and farmsteads.
15:55:38 Within these are I find very interesting and promising especially where these LCDs interact as I had hoped with the meta-Pontine division lines.
15:55:38 I've got an example here.
15:55:46 Here I've got three segments that are very arbitrarily labeled them as LCP 1 2 and I think this is non-.
15:55:54 They not only mimic the northwest to southeast lines, the blue lines here are those division lines, but there's even a transverse section which is this people on here.
15:56:08 The transverse line is taken from observations from the (name?) who published luminary theories regarding the provision division lines in the 1960s.
15:56:09 This is the illustration he made.
15:56:33 He suggested that they belong to a system of systematic land division of the countryside as he illustrated here.
15:56:34 This alignment of an LCP with one of the jetties transverse lines led me to test his extrapolated system of property delineation within the GIS simply by geo-referencing his illustration.
15:56:34 And this is what it looks like.
15:56:35 Here we see that not only do the LCDs interact with the division lines which are visible in the aerial survey in the 1950s, which those of those blue lines, and you can see these high-traffic LCP's aligning with them.
15:56:45 But they also seem to follow and support his a suggestion of a larger system of division, like you can see down here.
15:56:53 I've got another one where it just seems to turn on a dime right along his system.
15:57:07 It is wonderful evidence for the possibility that some of these lines represent the locations of ancient roads that they might've served as roots of rule I'm sorry roots of rural residents of the countryside to visit the local sanctuary.
15:57:07 The questions to now ask for what purpose did inhabitants the countryside visit the spaces.
15:57:16 Did they service places of aggregation for administrative or somewhat autocratic management of the countryside?
15:57:35 Does the connectivity that amount suggest that farmsteads can even be great into subsets of the larger settlement into kind of rule communities.
15:57:36 And how much influence did that city center have on these rule sanctuaries and the activities that took place there?
15:57:46 I've made my research onto looking at dedications and a sandwiches and primary sources specifically addressing sanctuaries within the great qualities in order to discern to what degree inhabitants of rule areas formed communities outside of the ancient Greeks city center.
15:57:46 I know that was very fast, a bit of a speed run here.
15:57:48 Thank you very much for inviting me to speak here.
15:58:04 I would love to go on and on of all of the other wonderful ways that we implement GIS in this project and other members and what they are doing my so if you do have questions please send them my way and even if it's after the session, I posted my email above..
15:58:04 So think you very much.