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- Title
THE EFFECT OF URBAN SPRAWL ON ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES BETWEEN JOHANNESBURG AND THE RIVER VAAL: A GIS STUDY.
- Authors
SADR, KARIM
- Abstract
Urban sprawl destroys archaeological sites. This paper examines the current urban sprawl of Johannesburg and its effect on the Iron Age and colonial ruins between the Witwatersrand Ridge and the Vaal River. Freely available satellite imagery and other relevant spatial data are analysed with open-source Geographical Information System (GIS) and statistical software, in order to measure the damage done to archaeological sites. Among other things, this will improve the analysis of past settlement patterns.
- Subjects
JOHANNESBURG (South Africa); WITWATERSRAND Basin (South Africa); VAAL River (South Africa); URBAN growth; ARCHAEOLOGICAL site location; IRON Age architecture; GEOGRAPHIC information systems in archaeology; STATISTICAL software
- Publication
South African Archaeological Bulletin, 2017, Vol 72, Issue 205, p71
- ISSN
0038-1969
- Publication type
Article