Malthi2015_GPS

Malthi provides a nearly unique example of a fully excavated Middle Hellenic (MH) settlement. The excavated remains include a series of houses, storage facilities, entrance ways, and possible public architecture, enclosed by a settlement wall. Malthi is perhaps the first MH site at which a major restructuring of the settlement architecture was observed, as proposed by Valmin. The PIs research focuses on the socio-cultural motivations for the decision to make substantial revisions to the urban layout, as well as impacts on the life of the settlement and the surrounding area. PIs Rebecca Worsham, Prof. Donald Haggis, and Prof. Michael Lindblom collaborated with SPARC researchers to produce an accurate and analysis-ready plan of the exposed standing remains and a digital elevation model (DEM) of the settlement at Malthi, using a combination of scanning and structure from motion techniques. 

This work was embedded in a larger project, and aimed to reconsider the architecture of the site including prior identifications of room types (by Valmin), and to attempt to identify coherent buildings. This improved survey, mapping and interpretation exercise was intended to support a rethinking about the settlement’s organization, and re-organization, as a whole. The production of a local DEM of the site was intended to aid in a consideration of access routes and forms a starting point for establishing the role of Malthi in the larger Soulima Valley network, which may function as a major corridor.

This upload contains the GPS data gathered during the Malthi project in 2015.

马尔西遗址是目前近乎独一无二的完全发掘的中希腊时期（Middle Hellenic, MH）定居点实例。已发掘的遗存包含一系列住宅、仓储设施、通道及疑似公共建筑，整体被定居点城墙环绕。据瓦尔明（Valmin）的研究提出，马尔西或许是首个被观测到定居点建筑发生重大重构的MH时期遗址。项目负责人团队的研究聚焦于：为何要对城市布局进行大幅修改的社会文化动因，以及此举对定居点及其周边区域居民生活造成的影响。项目负责人丽贝卡·沃舍姆（Rebecca Worsham）、唐纳德·哈吉斯（Donald Haggis）教授与迈克尔·林德布洛姆（Michael Lindblom）教授，联合SPARC研究人员，通过扫描与运动恢复结构（structure from motion）技术结合的手段，绘制了暴露在外的现存遗存的高精度可分析平面图，以及马尔西定居点的数字高程模型（digital elevation model, DEM）。
本项工作隶属于一项更大规模的研究项目，旨在重新审视该遗址的建筑遗存——包括瓦尔明此前对房间功能的判定——并尝试识别出结构完整的建筑群。此次优化后的勘测、绘图与解读工作，旨在推动学界对该定居点整体布局及其重构历程的重新思考。
本次遗址本地数字高程模型的制作，旨在辅助分析通行路径，并为确定马尔西遗址在索利马谷（Soulima Valley）更大区域网络中的定位奠定基础——该山谷或为一条重要交通廊道。
本次上传的数据包含2015年马尔西项目期间采集的GPS定位数据。