CGA created a Haiti Earthquake Data Portal in support of geospatial information exchange for relief and reconstruction efforts after Haiti's 7.0 magnitude earthquake on January 12, 2010. The effort was described in the...
From a general survey of the later Roman empire from ca. 250 to 700, the course "History 11111: The fall of Roman Empire" is shifting to an investigation of the question of the fall of the Roman Empire.
It will emphasize archaeology, primary written sources in...
An archive of the datasets developed for the Regional Systems Analysis laboratory, under the direction of G. William Skinner.
The core datasets, including GIS layers and tabular data, are being preserved in a repository on DataVerse.
The archived materials demonstrate the methodology of Skinner's Regional Systems Analysis, dealing with the Levels in Urban Hierarchy (LUH), Urban-Rural Continuum values (URC), and the delineation of Core Periphery...
The CHGIS project has produced a comprehensive series of datasets related to the administrative geography of Chinese History. The data layers include nationwide coverages (for the years 1820 and 1911), and time series (for the Dynastic period from 221 BCE to 1911 CE). The administrative features include Provinces, Circuits, Prefectures, and Counties as they changed over time. Supplemental datasets include G.W. Skinner regional systems, Buddhist sites, features from historic Russian maps of China, Tibetan...
