Borderscape Project WebGIS Repository
Published May 15, 2024 | Version v1
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The BORDERSCAPE Project WebGIS: State Formation and Settlement Patterns near the Ancient Egyptian Southern Border

Creators

  • 1. ROR icon University of Toronto
  • 2. ROR icon Sapienza University of Rome
  • 3. ROR icon Yale University
  • 4. ROR icon University of Bologna
  • 5. ROR icon Polish Academy of Sciences

Contributors

Project leader:

  • 1. ROR icon University of Toronto
  • 2. ROR icon Sapienza University of Rome
  • 3. ROR icon Yale University
  • 4. ROR icon University of Bologna
  • 5. ROR icon Polish Academy of Sciences

Description

The BORDERSCAPE Project WebGIS database and web app provide an overview of changes in the settlement pattern of the ancient Egyptian southern border during the long process of state formation and border-making. The dataset is set up in Excel and CSV formats and includes 163 archaeological sites from the First Cataract Region in southern Egypt, dating from c. 3800 to 2300 BCE. Eighty-two sites were discovered by the Aswan-Kom Ombo Archaeological Project and are mostly unpublished. The rest of the data was retrieved from originally published material. The dataset is enriched by two inundation models created for the Nile Valley north of the cataract. The WebGIS is an opportunity for data sharing and sets the base for potential data exchange.

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Identifiers

DOI
10.5334/joad.125

Related works

Is supplemented by
Dataset: 10.5281/zenodo.11099773 (DOI)

Funding

BORDERSCAPE Project 2020/37/K/HS3/04097
National Science Center

Dates

Submitted
2024-03-08
Accepted
2024-05-05
Created
2024-05-15
published

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