Abstract

In October of 1998 the Baikal Archeological Project decided that the Khuzir-Nuge XIV site located on the west side of Lake Baikal in Siberia would benefit by being organized into a Geographic Information System (GIS). The purpose of this project was to bring together large amounts of tabular, spatial, pictorial and text data collected by a number of field workers in a format that was easily accessible for analysis and presentation. For Khuzir-Nuge XIV, ArcView was used because of its capabilities to link different data sets from the project. The application also represented the data visually, quickly and easily. Using the GIS will allow project researchers to undertake faster and more accurate analysis of features within the site. It will also provide an immediate visual aide, which would not be possible without the data organization provided by this approach.