Geoinformatic Database of Geoarchaeological Sites of Ukraine

Summary An interactive database of geoarchaeological sites of Ukraine has been elaborated as an inalienable part of the project “Reconstruction of the natural environments of ancient Man’s habitats in Ukraine during prehistoric and historical times”. This database enables the synthesis and analysis of all palaeoenvironmental proxies, derived from archaeological sites. The data are collected from over 300 geoarchaeological sites of Ukraine and from more than 400 cultural layers. The format GeoPackage has been chosen for the geospatial database construction. A unique code ‘id’ given to each site and layer. The database is visualized as an online-map, which has been created using the Leaflet technology and the qgis2web plugin in QGIS software. The html file has been then imported into a GitHub repository, which enabled the creation of the web-page on the Netlify platform. Now users can obtain the information from the Cloud storage. The interactive map includes several vector layers: the list of sites of different material cultures, their modern environmental characteristics, the results of all Earth-science studies, fulfilled on a site, and the reference list.