Study On The The Digital Environmental Archaeology In Central China Area

The digital environmental archaeology is the concept which is proposed based onthe foundations of research on the remote sensing environmental archaeology,environmental archaeological information system and so on. Based on the research onthe environmental archaeological implication, the rationale, the system of method andthe technique, the Central China area is selected as case regional to conduct researchon the digital environmental archaeology.The research on the environmental remote sensing archaeology in the CentralChina area 1) has analyzed the characteristics of the remote sensing images of the citysites from Yangshao culture to Spring and Autumn Warring States Period in theCentral China area, summarized the city sites' atlas sequence of different times; 2) hascarried on the analysis of remote sensing images in the aspect of the relationshipbetween the location of the prehistoric settlements and the river in Shuangji Riverbasin, summarized the settlement dispersion pattern in various times; 3) has carried onthe interpretation of the aerial remote sensing images and the automatic extraction ofthe artificial drainage ditch vestige in Shangqiu area, proposed a kind of algorithm ofthe object's automatic extraction from aerial photo images.Based on GIS and the database technology, the research on the database systemof the environmental archaeology in the Central China area has studied and analyzedthe characteristics of the geographical background database of the regionalenvironmental archaeology, the database of the heritage resources and the database ofthe large-scale settlement ruins, and carried on the design and the development of thedatabase. Among them the paper put the focus on the research and the construction ofthe database of the aerial photo images, analysed the data organization of the heritageresources database in Henan Province, designed and developed the experimentalmanagement system of the intransportable heritage resources in Henan Province,carried on the detailed design of the cultural relic archaeological database of ZhengHan Gucheng.Based on GIS and the model analysis, the research on the prehistoric settlementin the Central China area, firstly summarized the temporal and spatial characteristicsof the settlements in each period under the different environmental background, secondly summarized the coupling relations between the division of Yangshao culturetype and the regional natural synthesis regionalization, and thirdly carried on theClustering analysis of the settlement spatial distribution in Henan Pei Ligang culture,and got the results of two clustering centers.Research on the environmental archaeological virtual reality according to thedifferent spatial scale in the Central China area, virtual and environmentalarchaeological analysis to the environment and the ancient Cultural Relics'distribution surrounding Mt. Songshan area in the large(regional) scale is presented;has carried on the three dimensional virtual and the analysis to the environment andthe ancient city sites distribution in the Suoxu river basin, as well as theenvironmental occurrence of the ancient rock carving symbols on Mt. Jucishan in themesoscale; and in the small scale, it is presented that the survey and the threedimensional virtual restoration to the Shang Dynasty surface of the Guandi Templeruins.Based on the case study, The paper makes a summary of the digitalenvironmental archaeology. The digital environmental archaeology is themethodological extension of the environmental archaeology; it includes thedigitization of the environmental archaeological data, the simulation of the researchprocess and the visualization of the research results.The research pattern of the digital environmental archaeology needs to take theenvironmental archaeological research questions as the background, and the theoryand method of the digital environmental archaeology also need to furtherimprovement in the research process.