Paolo Rosati, “ArchaeoloGIS” a QGIS plugin for archaeological spatial analysis

ArchaeoloGIS is a QGIS plugin for very basic archaeological spatial analysis. It was inspired by the accurate studies in geography, methodology and digital humanities made by the author during the years of his participation in the ERC project PAThs. The Archaeological Atlas of the Coptic Literature (https://atlas.paths-erc.eu). The first steps were taken from the studies of the road network named MOvEIT (https://paths-erc.eu/moveit/, Bogdani 2023). The coding phase started in the winter of 2021 and the validation on the practical applications presented below were carried out during the spring of the next year. The plugin is GPL-3.0 licensed and can be freely installed from the official repository (https://github.com/archeorosati/archaeoloGIS). It is developed as a QGIS Processing Toolbox script, it is still in beta version and suggestions and questions from the community are welcomed. At present, it consists of a unique script named Tabula Peutingeriana after the famous imperial Roman map, able to output points at a regular, fixed distance of a Roman mile along a path or network of paths. It can be used to position virtual milestones along an already provided road network, eventually help- ing to find the location of original ones, by counting the Roman miles from a given starting point.