Understanding past movement patterns across a landscape is a complex task. Traditionally, this analysis has focused on identifying optimal travel routes through least-cost paths. However, we are more interested in the overall connectivity between all locations within the territory. To address this, we employed the Omniscape algorithm (McRae et al., 2016; Landau et al., 2021) in La Lindosa region. This recently developed approach was successfully applied for the first time in an archaeological case study by Parcero-Oubiña et al. (2024).
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