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Second
season of SCENOP
completed!
Journal of World Anthropology
Volume 3 No. 1
is available online now!
Welcome to the Lab
The University at
Buffalo's Social Systems GIS laboratory is a research group under the
direction of
Professor Ezra Zubrow. The group uses GIS (Geographic Information
Systems) and spatial statistics to examine the social and spatial
organisation of settlements, environmental change, cultural
landscape transformation, spatial relationships between disability and
literacy, settlement patterns and cognition, using excavation data,
geochemistry, remotely sensed data, aerial imagery, palaeo-environmental
data and other spatial data. In
addition, we are actively involved in simulation models, predictive modelling and computational
modelling. The lab was established in
response to a growing recognition of the need for integrative research
methods, and provides a base for students and faculty from
anthropology and geography to participate in
multi-disciplinary and multi-national research projects. The range of
archaeological, anthropological, ecological and geographical problems
addressed reflect the diversity of backgrounds and disciplines
represented in the group, and can be seen in our current research.
