Land use Dataset for the Jazira Region of Syria
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This land use dataset complements 13 other datasets as part of a study that compared ancient settlement patterns with modern environmental conditions in the Jazira region of Syria. This study examined settlement distribution and density patterns over the past five millennia using archaeological survey reports and French 1930s 1:200,000 scale maps to locate and map archaeological sites. An archaeological site dataset was created and compared to and modelled with soil, geology, terrain (contour), surface and subsurface hydrology and normal and dry year precipitation pattern datasets; there are also three spreadsheet datasets providing 1963 precipitation and temperature readings collected at three locations in the region. The environmental datasets were created to account for ancient and modern population subsistence activities, which comprise barley and wheat farming and livestock grazing. These environmental datasets were subsequently modelled with the archaeological site dataset, as well as, land use and population density datasets for the Jazira region. Ancient trade routes were also mapped and factored into the model, and a comparison was made to ascertain if there was a correlation between ancient and modern settlement patterns and environmental conditions; the latter influencing subsistence activities. This land use dataset was created to show land use patterns in the Jazira region. Dry farming and grazing activities have sustained human populations in the region for the past nine millennia to the present. The land use dataset is attributed with land use type, other land uses and tertiary land use activities. Additional attributes include soil type, secondary soil type and soil code variables. This dataset corresponds with the soil dataset, but this metadata record was created for discovery purposes.
dataset
http://www.sharegeo.ac.uk/handle/10672/80
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eng
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Thesis M 2001 MATH, Ohio University Mathys, Antone J 'A GIS comparative analysis of bronze age settlement patterns and the contemporary physical landscape in the Jazira Region of Syria'. FAO Land and Water Development Division http://www.fao.org/WAICENT/FAOINFO/AGRICULT/AGL/agll/wrb/mapindex.stm, W.J. van Liere: 'Syria - Classification and rational utilization of soils - Report to the government, Soil Survey of the Jezireh.' Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO), 1965. Compendium of On-Line Soil Survey Information: http://www.itc.nl/personal/rossiter/research/rsrch_ss_class.html
geoscientificInformation
digital land model
GIS digital format
geographic information system
land use
revision
2010-01-13
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1983
publication
2001-06-02
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Derived from 1:500,000 Map in Mohammed Ilaiwa's thesis 'Contribution to the Knowledge of the Soils of Syria'. Additional information taken from W.J. van Liere: 'Syria - Classification and rational utilization of soils - Report to the government, Soil Survey of the Jezireh.' Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO), 1965.
ArcGIS (*.shp)
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None, other than a citation if dataset is used towards an application which is subsequently included in a publication.
Tony Mathys
distributor
Tony Mathys
EDINA, The University of Edinburgh, Causewayside House, 160 Causewayside
Edinburgh
EH9 1PR
Scotland
+44 (0)131 651 1443
+44 (0)131 650 3308
pointOfContact
2013-04-24