Gresham College Lectures Corpse Roads: Digital Landscape Archaeology
Mar 12, 2020
55:48
This lecture explores how digital landscape modelling can help unlock the secrets of Britain's ancient pathways. Focusing on "corpse roads", pathways taken by coffin bearers over the countryside before the Enclosures, it discusses the significance of such routes, and how a mapped understanding of factors such as slope, elevation and distance can shed light on the stories behind them.
It concludes by reflecting on what Geographic Information Systems (GIS) can offer landscape archaeology more generally.
A lecture by Stuart Dunn 12 March
The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website:
https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/corpse-roads
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It concludes by reflecting on what Geographic Information Systems (GIS) can offer landscape archaeology more generally.
A lecture by Stuart Dunn 12 March
The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website:
https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/corpse-roads
Gresham College has been giving free public lectures since 1597. This tradition continues today with all of our five or so public lectures a week being made available for free download from our website. There are currently over 2,000 lectures free to access or download from the website.
Website: http://www.gresham.ac.uk
Twitter: http://twitter.com/GreshamCollege
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/greshamcollege
Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/greshamcollege