ABSTRACT
This chapter describes on-going Geographic Information Systems (GIS) analyses of past mobility and accessibility patterns in the Late Bronze Age Khanuy Valley, Mongolia. It provides the theoretical and methodological background used for GIS studies, mainly time-geography as defined in the 1960s70s by Torsten Hgerstrand, and describes observations on the Late Bronze Age movement and accessibility patterns in the Khanuy Valley. Also cumulative potential path areas have been modelled to give guidance of the circumstances mobility and time-budgeting allow for potential interaction and avoidance in the settlement landscape. The monumental landscape seems to have mirrored the seasonal mobility and possibly provided guidance for the placement of occupation areas: both distance between settlements and monuments and visual connections between them have affected the pattern. Distance from and inter-visibility with different kinds of sites seems to have affected the placement of both the settlement and monumental sites in the landscape, besides more practical environmental and economic aspects connected to settlement site placing.
