Archaeologists have long acknowledged the significance of mountains in siting Greek cult. Mountains were where the gods preferred to make contact and there people constructed sanctuaries to inspire intervention. Greece is a land full of mountains, but we lack insight on the ancient Greeks’ view—what visible and topographic characteristics made particular mountains ideal places for worship over others, and whether worshiper preferences ever changed. This article describes a data collection and analysis methodology for landscapes where visualscape was a significant factor in situating culturally significant activities. Using a big-data approach, four geospatial analyses are applied to every cultic place in the Peloponnesian regions of the Argolid and Messenia, spanning 2800–146 BC. The fully described methodology combines a number of experiences—looking out, looking toward, and climbing up—and measures how these change through time. The result is an active historic model of Greek religious landscape, describing how individuals moved, saw, and integrated the built and natural world in different ways. Applied elsewhere, and even on nonreligious locales, this is a replicable mode for treating the natural landscape as an artifact of human decision: as a space impacting the siting of meaningful locales through history.

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区域观看方式：测量古代视觉景观的大数据方法

考古学家早就承认山脉在希腊崇拜中的重要性。山脉是众神喜欢接触的地方，人们在那里建造了避难所来激发干预。希腊是一片多山的土地，但我们对古希腊人的观点缺乏洞察力——哪些可见的地形特征使特定的山脉成为比其他山脉更理想的崇拜场所，以及崇拜者的偏好是否曾经改变。本文描述了景观的数据收集和分析方法，其中视觉景观是定位具有重要文化意义的活动的重要因素。使用大数据方法，对阿尔戈里德和麦西尼亚伯罗奔尼撒地区的每个宗教场所进行了四次地理空间分析，时间跨度为公元前 2800-146 年。完整描述的方法结合了许多经验——向外看、向往和向上攀爬——并衡量这些经历如何随时间变化。结果是希腊宗教景观的活跃历史模型，描述了个人如何以不同的方式移动、看到和整合建筑和自然世界。应用于其他地方，甚至在非宗教场所，这是一种可复制的模式，将自然景观视为人类决​​策的产物：作为一个空间，影响历史上有意义的场所的选址。