Survey Text Analysis Sample Clauses

Survey Text Analysis. Structure of the Analytical Text, which Examines Each Landscape Project A text discussion is provided for each landscape research project, based on the data acquired in the Survey Database. This section may be partly considered as a short project review. The themes discussed aim to provide a clear picture of the relevant projects and help to exemplify differences but also similarities between traditions. 2.4.1 Problem Orientation: aims and methods A general picture of researchers’ theoretical and methodological framework is obtained by describing declared aims and methodology followed. Questions asked and methods followed to study the landscape are characteristic of archaeological Landscape Traditions and the text aims to provide an adequate description so that the relationship between problem orientation, methodology and results is better understood. 2.4.2 Presentation / Relocatability This section discusses the kind of data that are presented, including maps and map-scales, which are often related to the way the archaeological landscape is perceived. The visualisation methods used and the extent to which we may be able to relocate sites are important information regarding the usability of the data presented by researchers. Site location may often be presented through text descriptions, while map visualisation may be very poor, but in other occasions relocatability seems to be an important objective. 2.4.3 Density per area/period The relevant table presents the number of site characterisations and the estimated densities for the four major temporal slices (PH, GR, BVT, MOD, as well as the class of ‘unknown period’), presented for both target and sampled populations, when these differ. The first row includes both certain and uncertain chronological characterisations while the alternative lower densities in the second row include only certain interpretations. For projects in which area researched is not explicitly stated, density estimates are based on the map-area calculated from the GIS maps. It should be noted that usually the areas represented on the maps are quite larger than the areas actually researched, as map precision has rarely been pursued. Target, map and sampled areas can be seen in the database. The aim is to obtain an idea about the extent to which the different periods were studied and we are thus most familiar with and also the degree of certainty in chronological attributions. Site definition is also discussed.