How digital mapping can uncover the secrets of Britain's ancient corpse roads
In short: This lecture explores how digital landscape modelling reveals the hidden history of pathways used by coffin bearers across the British countryside before the Enclosures.
Stuart Dunn, Head of Digital Humanities at King's College London, examines how Geographic Information Systems (GIS) can transform landscape archaeology. By mapping variables like elevation, slope, and distance, researchers can better understand the logic and stories behind these historical funerary routes.
The presentation highlights how digital tools provide a new way to interpret the relationship between ancient movement and the physical terrain.
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