Mapping buried holocene landscapes. Past lowland environments, palaeoDEMs and preservation in GIS
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In a geological GIS-data recombination project, a digital map was produced that contains information on the Netherlands’ former coastal and delta plain landscapes over the last 14,000 years: the Holocene and the very end of the Pleistocene. The polygon map product is accompanied by a set of palaeoDEMs (Digital Elevation Models) indicating the attention depth for buried land surfaces and aquatic deposits for four time slices. This paper provides conceptual background information on the legend and construction principles behind the polygon maps and the palaeoDEMs, i.e. the decisions taken during the making of. It also provides a basic overview of the map product: landscape structure, burial depth and preservation, visualised for the four time slices in the RCE’s Archaeology Knowledge Kit. The text links coastal plain buried landscape mapping for four time slices to the other Knowledge Kit activities described in this volume, notably that of the Archaeological Landscapes map (for the most recent time slice in the coastal plain area of the Netherlands, and for all time slices in the Pleistocene uplands).
TNO Identifier
779483
Source
Tijdschrift van Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, pp. 73-93.
Pages
73-93
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