ABSTRACT
Since 1997, the Kentucky Heritage Council, the University of Kentucky Department of Anthropology, and the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet have been working together to develop geographic information systems (GIS) coverages for the cultural resources of the state of Kentucky. The project is funded, in part, by ISTEA and TEA-21 Transportation Enhancement funds provided by the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet. The goal of the project is to link the existing textual databases of the Kentucky Office of State Archaeology (KOSA) and Kentucky Heritage Council (KHC) with GIS coverages that were developed by digitizing archaeological site areas, survey areas, and historic resources. This project was designed to provide a GIS that could be used as a planning tool by the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet and other land-managing agencies and by researchers to learn more about prehistoric and historic settlement patterns.
