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Pleistocene Injury Heat Mapping
Tools
Esri ArcMap
Data
Direwolf bones from La Brea Tar Pits
Skills
feature class creation, digitization, kernel density
Innovative research project to spatially analyze Pleistocene carnivore hunting injuries using ArcGIS.
Using a skeleton image as a raster basemap, a skeleton polygon feature class was digitized and "georeferenced". Then based on real bone injuries found, an injury point feature class was digitized. Heat-maps of injuries were created and the number of injury points on each bone polygon was analyzed.
Adviser: Dr. Blaire Van Valkenburgh
Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, UCLA
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