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.

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Chapter One. Geospatial Anthrolpology: Integrating Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Sciences in Anthropological Fieldwork and Analysis by Robert L. Anemone and Glenn C. Conroy
Chapter Two. Ongoing Developments in Geospatial Data, Software, and Hardware with Prospects for Anthropological Applications Charles W. Emrson and Robert L. Anemone
Chapter Three. Geospatial Approaches to Hominid Paleontology in Africa: What’s Old, What’s New, and What Doesn’t Change by Leslea J. Hlusko
Chapter Four. Assessing Unsupervised Image Classification as an Aid in Paleoanthropological Explorations by Glenn C. Conroy, Any Chew, Kenneth D. Rose, Thomas M. Bown, Robert L. Anemone, and Gregg F. Gunnell
Chapter Five. Taking Virtual Anthropology to the Field: Building Three-Dimensional Digital Outcrop Models of Fossil Localitieis by Robert L. Anemone, Charles W. Emerson, Tyler W. Jones, Junshan Liu, and Cory Henderson
Chapter Six. Tooth Surface Topography: A Scale-Sensitive Approach with Implications for Inferring Dental Adaptation and Diet by Peter S. Ungar
Chapter Seven. Classifying Land Cover on Very High Resolution Drone-Acquired Orthomosaics by Serge A. Wich, Lian Pin Koh, and Zoltan Szantoi
Chapter Eight. Understanding the Ecological Decision-Making Tiwanaku Pastoralists through Geospatial Agent-Based Models by Benjamin Vining anf Sara Burns
Chapter Nine. Pastoralist Participation (PastPart): A Model of Mobility and Connectivity across the Inner Asian Mountain Corridor by Michael D. Frachetti, C. Evan Smith, and Cody Copp
Chapter Ten. Modeling Archaeological Landscape Transformations in Early Andean Empires by Patrick Ryan Williams, Ana Cristina Londoño, and Megan Hart
Chapter Eleven. PaleoCore: An Open-Source Platform for Geospatial Data Integration in Paleoanthropology by Denné N. Reed, W. Andrew Barr, and John Kappelman
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