Dealing with and Analyzing Legacy Data

This article focuses on using GIS to analyze legacy data from the French excavations at the Late Bronze Age site of Enkomi (Cyprus). Despite being a major site for the protohistory of the island, its excavations were never fully published, while the only available publications are partial and nonorganic. Given their unreliable nature, scholarship can only partially use the results of the French mission. However, our multidisciplinary approach that uses GIS, archival data, and museum archaeology may contribute to bringing back these data again by removing the reasons that caused their dismissal. We tackle the issues of legacy data related to the site, its archaeological documentation and study, followed by the interdisciplinary methodology adopted and a case study from Quarter 3 East of Enkomi that confirms the validity of the method proposed.