Serpens Alveo, Métodos y aplicaciones de la cartografía arqueológica

Abstract

In this study an approximation to the development of archaeological cartography is made, with emphasis on the topographic method fruit of the advances in the application of the system known as CAT (Computer Assisted Topography), for its acronym in English or Computer Assisted Topography, consists of in carrying out the topographic survey gathering planimetric and altimetric data, processing the information when converting polar coordinates to Cartesian ones obtained in the field, and finally printing the map by means of computerized or digital systems and means, to obtain a cartographic interpretation extrapolating: categories, layers of information with the textural topographic plot.