Spatial risk assessment and the protection of cultural heritage in southern Tajikistan

Growing digital documentation of cultural heritage resources yielded from an increasing number of international projects, calls for the development of formal computational approaches to assess the risks that this invaluable material heritage is exposed to. This paper proposes a nuanced case-control...

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Published in:Journal of cultural heritage 2021-05, Vol.49, p.183-196
Main Authors: Nebbia, Marco, Cilio, Federica, Bobomulloev, Bobomullo
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Central Asia
Cultural heritage
Point pattern analysis
Remote sensing
Spatial analysis
Tajikistan
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Summary:Growing digital documentation of cultural heritage resources yielded from an increasing number of international projects, calls for the development of formal computational approaches to assess the risks that this invaluable material heritage is exposed to. This paper proposes a nuanced case-control approach to the risk assessment developed by the Central Asian Archaeological Landscape (CAAL) project for an area in southern Tajikistan. A number of statistical methods are applied for the spatial modelling of the risk to the cultural heritage across the study area and for the assessment of the local scenarios of potential archaeological features already affected by natural and human threats. The value of this formal approach is in its flexible applicability to diverse regional and national settings, as well as in its capability of being updated and repeated within the same territory. This provides local stakeholders, heritage professionals, and local authorities, with a useful tool to develop a risk management plan that includes quantitative as well as qualitative spatial assessments.
ISSN:1296-2074
1778-3674
DOI:10.1016/j.culher.2021.01.012