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Markus Breier Department of Geography and Regional Research, - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Markus Breier Department of Geography and Regional Research, University of Vienna 30.08.2013 20/09/2013 Markus Breier 2 MODELLING HISTORICAL ROADS Where could the historical road have been? 20/09/2013 Markus Breier 3 METHOD: LEAST COST
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Where could the historical road have been?
MODELLING HISTORICAL ROADS
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Algorithms to find most cost‐efficient path from start point to end point across a surface
METHOD: LEAST COST PATHS
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CASE STUDY I: BYZANTINE ROAD
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Late Byzantine Era (12th – 14th Century)
Written sources (documents)
1152: basilikos dromos (Greek): „emperor‘s road“
1336: veliki put (Old Slavonic): „big road“
1371: basilike hodos (Greek): „emperor‘s road“
1375/1376: veliki carski put (Old Slavonic): „the big road of the emperor”
Connection between Roman roads
Via egnatia
Via militaris (Via diagonalis)
THE ROAD IN THE STRUMICA VALLEY
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Historical geodata hardly available
River regulation
Confidential data
DATA SITUATION
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Physical Landscape
Rivers
Used data: Vector Map level 0, adjusted to DHM
Modelled as barriers
Relief
Used data: SRTM (90m resolution) ASTERDEM (30m resolution)
Height above sea level
Effective slope
INCLUDED COST FACTORS
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CASE STUDY II
Rinchen Zangpo (956 – 1055 CE)
Tibetan monk, translator
Travelled from Tibet to Kashmir and back
Brought with him artisans
Started the “later propagation of Buddhism in Tibet”
No exact travel route is known
Historical travel routes in the Western Himalayas
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WESTERN HIMALAYAS
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PRELIMINARY CALCULATIONS
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Integration of social landscape
Trade routes, trade centers, sacred sites (temples, monasteries,..)
Data situation
Historical geodata
Evaluation
Visualization
MAIN ISSUES
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Promising method
Only approximation
Framework for other cases
Advocates the use of GIS and cartography in historical research
CONCLUSION AND OUTLOOK
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Initiativkolleg “Cultural Transfers and Cross‐Contacts in the Himalayan Borderlands” (University of Vienna) Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Medieval Research, Division of Byzantine Research, especially Dr. Mihailo Popović University of Vienna, Department of Geography and Regional Research The Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Documentation of Inner and South Asian Cultural History (CIRDIS)
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
markus.breier@univie.ac.at