caa a22 4500 605448744 CHVBK 20210128100138.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20151201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10437-015-9209-4 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10437-015-9209-4 GIS Virtual Reconstructions of the Temporal and Spatial Relations of Fossil Deposits at Wonderwerk Cave (South Africa) [Elektronische Daten] [Michal Birkenfeld, Margaret Avery, Liora Horwitz] Geographic information systems (GIS) are generally used in archaeology to analyze sites where finds were collected using precise plotting methods. In order to assess the suitability of GIS analyses for excavations where georeferenced information on finds are lacking, we have developed a method for reconstructing the site archive by "back-plotting” finds for the Early to Mid-Pleistocene strata at the site of Wonderwerk Cave, for which only relative locational data (square and depth) are available. We used a digital archive comprising the location data for all finds previously excavated from the site (fauna, flora, lithic artifacts, and geological materials), to construct 3D visualizations of the stratigraphy, stratigraphic relations distant from the existing witness sections; create virtual sections at any transect through the site; and examine vertical and horizontal find associations. Our study shows that this is a valid approach that facilitates improved temporal and spatial analyses of excavations lacking precision-plotted data. Springer Science+Business Media New York, 2015 GIS nationallicence Early to Mid-Pleistocene nationallicence Virtual reconstruction nationallicence Virtual sections nationallicence Birkenfeld Michal Israel Antiquities Authority, P.O. Box 586, Jerusalem, Israel aut Avery Margaret Cenozoic Studies, Iziko South African Museum, 25 Queen Victoria Street, Cape Town, P.O. Box 61, 8000, Cape Town, South Africa aut Horwitz Liora National Natural History Collections, Faculty of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University, Berman Building, Edmond Safra Campus, 91904, Jerusalem, Israel aut African Archaeological Review Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 32/4(2015-12-01), 857-876 0263-0338 32:4<857 2015 32 10437 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10437-015-9209-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10437-015-9209-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Birkenfeld Michal Israel Antiquities Authority, P.O. Box 586, Jerusalem, Israel aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Avery Margaret Cenozoic Studies, Iziko South African Museum, 25 Queen Victoria Street, Cape Town, P.O. Box 61, 8000, Cape Town, South Africa aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Horwitz Liora National Natural History Collections, Faculty of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University, Berman Building, Edmond Safra Campus, 91904, Jerusalem, Israel aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- African Archaeological Review Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 32/4(2015-12-01), 857-876 0263-0338 32:4<857 2015 32 10437