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- (a) the Landscape Economics Analysis<\/em> technique described here.<\/li>\n
- (b) The Proximity of Desire (POD)<\/em> land valuation technique [link<\/span><\/a>] is also useful to investigators.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Hope this sparks new questions that lead to interesting avenues of enquiry. <\/div>\n<\/div>\nLANDSCAPE ECONOMICS ANALYSIS (“LEA”) TECHNIQUE<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
a) Questions to frame discovery: <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
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<\/a>This is to delve into the nature of the economics\/market system that developed the site – to reimagine the site, culture, and technologies of the day:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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- What technologies were available?<\/li>\n
- What energy sources were available?<\/li>\n
- What events influenced and might change the economics of production?<\/li>\n
- What might the landscape have been like, and could there have been virgin territory?<\/li>\n
- What was the economic value of the lands and how might this influence construction?<\/li>\n
- What was the unit of mass production? <\/li>\n
- What might the weather be over the four seasons?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
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b) Egyptology Analogy:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nConsider the on-going challenge of determining the method of construction of the Pyramids at Giza.<\/p>\n
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Use the LEA questions’ framing technique to investigate the problem:<\/p>\n
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- What technologies were available?<\/strong>\n
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- Slaves, hydraulics (sluices, dams, canals, pipes), donkey+gears+wheels, shadufs (water moving tech), barges and boats, slings, river fords, wagons, wind, timber<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
- What energy sources were available?<\/strong>\n
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- Wind, water, sunlight, oil lamps, torches, labour<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
- What events influenced and might change the economics of production?<\/strong>\n
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- Dynastic change, Success in wars = more slaves, climate changes = starvation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
- What was the unit of mass production?<\/strong>\n
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- Until modern times, this was the working population (slave, serf, fief-holder, parishioner) paid in various ways (slavery, food, tithes, faith, money). If a farm, how many hands were needed to sustain x-hectares of production, to feed x-population and a surplus?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
- What might the weather be over the four seasons?<\/strong>\n
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- Climate change, seasonal cycle of the Nile and tributaries.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
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- What new information updates the query set?<\/strong>\n
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- Recently scholars used lidar to discover a former channel of the Nile that passes near the main Pyramid sites at Giza:\n
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\/\/www. cbsnews. com\/news\/pyramid-mystery-long- lost-river-discovered-egypt\/<\/a> <\/li>\n - This generates investigation avenues, such as:\n
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- What might the landscape have been like? (Lidar evidence of roads converging on ports and canals for materials transfer?)<\/li>\n
- What was the economic value of the lands and how might this influence construction?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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c) A British Example:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
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- I noticed an oddity whilst watching the Whitestaunton Roman Villa episode of Time Team<\/a><\/span>.<\/li>\n
- This led to the question: Why did the Romans locate a villa on the \u2018high value\u2019 bottom land of the holding?<\/em><\/li>\n
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- This led to the question: Why did the Romans locate a villa on the \u2018high value\u2019 bottom land of the holding?<\/em><\/li>\n
- I noticed an oddity whilst watching the Whitestaunton Roman Villa episode of Time Team<\/a><\/span>.<\/li>\n
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- This generates investigation avenues, such as:\n
- https:
- Recently scholars used lidar to discover a former channel of the Nile that passes near the main Pyramid sites at Giza:\n
- What new information updates the query set?<\/strong>\n
- What technologies were available?<\/strong>\n
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- (b) The Proximity of Desire (POD)<\/em> land valuation technique [link<\/span><\/a>] is also useful to investigators.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n