Author Archives: e_luttrell

Spatial analysis is central to the field of archaeology, making GIS an extremely useful tool in the field today. Geographic mapping can be used for everything from surveying for new excavation sites, to analyzing depositional patterns, to cataloging artifacts and analyzing the spatial relationships between them. As a student of archaeology, this is exactly why … Continue reading »

My main goal this block is to finish the GIS training that I’m doing during my shifts in the GIS lab. As I walked into the lab this afternoon, I was ready to crank out some of the modules. But alas, my plans were foiled by geographic and projected coordinate systems. It took me a … Continue reading »