Paper
Multi-fractal Analysis on Neolithic Sites Distribution around the Sanxia Reservoir Area
- Authors:
- Zhu Cheng; Li Zhongxuan
- Abstract
- Multifractals can be widely used in describing complexity of nature and depicting geometric measures defined on fractal objects. To analyze the changes of spatial distribution of human sites, attempts have been made to calculate the multifractal spectra of the discovered 143 human sites in the Stone Age around the Sanxia Reservoir of the Chongqing City, China. Due to generalized dimension results, the range of 0.7573~1.2897 for Paleolithic sites and that of 0.7006 to 1.2007 for Neolithic sites, which suggests that the pattern of the Paleolithic site distribution is assembled overall, the Neolithic site, however, appears relatively dispersal. Considering multifractal dimension spectra of the both, the range for Neolithic site distribution is 0.2284~1.0, with comparison of that of Paleolithic sites, indicates that spatial distribution of the Neolithic sites is more homogeneous than that of the Paleolithic sites. Another, different ranges of the generalized dimension spectra reflect that the altitude of the Paleolithic sites changed rapidly but in the Neolithic period was sluggish, moreover, the fixed height of the Neolithic sites in over 6000 years may imply a stronger adaptability of humanity in the Neolithic Age than that in the Paleolithic period.
- Keywords
- multifractal spectrum; the Sanxia Reservoir area; archaeological sites; spatial distribution
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