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Author : Thomas Kurt Pilgram
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (352 download)
Download or read book Predicting Archaeological Sites from Environmental Variables written by Thomas Kurt Pilgram and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tom Pilgram
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (175 download)
Download or read book Predicting Archaeological Sites from Environmental Variables written by Tom Pilgram and published by . This book was released on 197? with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Konnie L. Wescott
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 0203212134
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Practical Applications of GIS for Archaeologists written by Konnie L. Wescott and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The use of GIS is the most powerful technology introduced to archaeology since the introduction of carbon 14 dating. The most widespread use of this technology has been for the prediction of archaeological site locations. This book focuses on the use of GIS for archaeological predictive modeling. The contributors include internationally recognized researchers who have been at the forefront of this revolutionary integration of GIS and archaeology, as well as first generation researchers who have begun to critically apply this new technology and explore its theoretical implications.
Author : William James Judge
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Quantifying the Present and Predicting the Past written by William James Judge and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tom Pilgram
Publisher : British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Predicting Archaeological Sites from Environmental Variables written by Tom Pilgram and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 1987 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (BAR -S320, 1987)
Author : Maria Elena Castiello
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030885674
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Computational and Machine Learning Tools for Archaeological Site Modeling written by Maria Elena Castiello and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-24 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes a novel machine-learning based approach to answer some traditional archaeological problems, relating to archaeological site detection and site locational preferences. Institutional data collected from six Swiss regions (Zurich, Aargau, Grisons, Vaud, Geneva and Fribourg) have been analyzed with an original conceptual framework based on the Random Forest algorithm. It is shown how the algorithm can assist in the modelling process in connection with heterogeneous, incomplete archaeological datasets and related cultural heritage information. Moreover, an in-depth review of past and more recent works of quantitative methods for archaeological predictive modelling is provided. The book guides the readers to set up their own protocol for: i) dealing with uncertain data, ii) predicting archaeological site location, iii) establishing environmental features importance, iv) and suggest a model validation procedure. It addresses both academics and professionals in archaeology and cultural heritage management, and offers a source of inspiration for future research directions in the field of digital humanities and computational archaeology.
Author : Kathy Diane Schick
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ISBN 13 : 9780860544074
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Predicting Archaeological Sites from Environmental Variables written by Kathy Diane Schick and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philip Verhagen
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
ISBN 13 : 9087280076
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (872 download)
Download or read book Case Studies in Archaeological Predictive Modelling written by Philip Verhagen and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dutch archaeology has experienced profound changes in recent years. This has led to an increasing use of archaeological predictive modelling, a technique that uses information about the location of known early human settlements to predict where additional settlements may have been located. Case Studies in Archaeological Predictive Modelling is the product of a decade of work by Philip Verhagen as a specialist in geographical information systems at RAAP Archeologisch Adviesbureau BV, one of the leading organizations in the field; the case studies presented here provide an overview of the field and point to potential future areas of research.
Author : Anne-Marie Damme Card
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Total Pages : 47 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (386 download)
Download or read book A Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Environmental Variables Important to Prehistoric Site Use and Reuse in Wyoming written by Anne-Marie Damme Card and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Settlement pattern analysis seeks to understand the larger patterns of site locations and there is an ever-increasing amount of archaeological, environmental, and topographic datasets available for this research. While some smaller scale studies of site location examined resource availability or specific regions, this thesis compares archaeological sites in Wyoming to topographic and environmental information, including elevation, slope, aspect, watershed data, and new wildlife migration corridor data. I first examine the preference of 2,071 archaeological sites in Wyoming in relation to these variables to assess whether they are good predictors of site location when compared to a random distribution of points. Correlating these sites with radiocarbon dates shows specific environmental preferences for site location within the state and whether these preferences changed over time. I then assess whether the five variables are useful for predicting site reuse by using the same archaeological sites separated into single and multi-component sites based on radiocarbon dates. By comparing environmental variables of single and multi-component sites I investigate why multi-component sites are “persistent places” places on the landscape. The results showed that all five variables were useful for predicting where an archaeological site might be located on the landscape, but only distance to water proved to be significant for site reuse. For both site location preference and site reuse preference, this study demonstrates that an area is more attractive because of multiple variables rather than one particular factor.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 14 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (683 download)
Download or read book A GIS Approach for Predicting Prehistoric Site Locations written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Use of geographic information system (GIS)-based predictive mapping to locate areas of high potential for prehistoric archaeological sites is becoming increasingly popular among archaeologists. Knowledge of the environmental variables influencing activities of original inhabitants is used to produce GIS layers representing the spatial distribution of those variables. The GIS layers are then analyzed to identify locations where combinations of environmental variables match patterns observed at known prehistoric sites. Presented are the results of a study to locate high-potential areas for prehistoric sites in a largely unsurveyed area of 39,000 acres in the Upper Chesapeake Bay region, including details of the analysis process. The project used environmental data from over 500 known sites in other parts of the region and the results corresponded well with known sites in the study area.
Author : Michele Leigh Punke
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Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (522 download)
Download or read book Predictive Locational Modeling of Late Pleistocene Archaeological Sites on the Southern Oregon Coast Using a Geographic Information System (GIS) written by Michele Leigh Punke and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The search for archaeological materials dating to 15,000 yr BP along the southern Oregon coast is a formidable task. Using ethnographic, theoretical, and archaeological data, landscape resources which would have influenced land-use and occupation location decisions in the past are highlighted. Additionally, environmental data pertaining to the late Pleistocene is examined to determine what landscape features may have been used by human groups 15,000 years ago and to determine how these landscape features may have changed since that time. These landscape resource features are included in the modeling project as independent variables. The dependent variable in this modeling project is relative probability that an area will contain archaeological materials dating to the time period of interest. Two predictive locational models are created to facilitate the search process. These models mathematically combine the independent variables using two separate approaches. The hierarchical decision rule model approach assumes that decision makers in the past would have viewed landscape features sequentially rather than simultaneously. The additive, or weighted-value, approach assumes that a number of conditional preference aspects were evaluated simultaneously and that different environmental variables had varying amounts of influence on the locational choices of prehistoric peoples. Integration of the data and mathematical model structures into a Geographic Information System (GIS) allows for spatial analysis of the landscape and the prediction of locations most likely to contain evidence of human activity dating to 15,000 years ago. The process involved with variable integration into the GIS is delineated and results of the modeling procedures are presented in spatial, map-based formats.
Author : Mark W. Mehrer
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 0203563352
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)
Download or read book GIS and Archaeological Site Location Modeling written by Mark W. Mehrer and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2005-12-21 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although archaeologists are using GIS technology at an accelerating rate, publication of their work has not kept pace. A state-of-the-art exploration the subject, GIS and Archaeological Site Location Modeling pulls together discussions of theory and methodology, scale, data, quantitative methods, and cultural resource management and uses loc
Author : Rebecca Lee Gardner
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (466 download)
Download or read book Modeling Archaeological Site Distribution in the Black Bottom of Illinois Using Geographic Information Systems and Logistic Regression written by Rebecca Lee Gardner and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzed and modeled the distribution of archaeological sites in the region known as the Black Bottom of southern Illinois by investigating settlement patterning using Geographic Information Systems to look at the relationship between archaeological site locations and environmental variables and by creating an archaeological site prediction model to identify areas with a high potential for yielding previously undocumented archaeological sites.
Author : Barry W. Cunliffe
Publisher : Oxford : British Archaeological Reports
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Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Oppida, the Beginnings of Urbanisation in Barbarian Europe written by Barry W. Cunliffe and published by Oxford : British Archaeological Reports. This book was released on 1976 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover title: Oppida in barbarian Europe.
Author : David Ebert
Publisher : British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Predictive Modeling and the Ecology of Hunter-gatherers of the Boreal Forest of Manitoba written by David Ebert and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 2004 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archaeological predictive modelling, Ebert argues, has stagnated in recent years with its proponents resisting the temptation to experiment with tried and tested models. Four new models for predicting site locations using economic, cultural and environmental variables are presented here in relation to boreal forest hunter-gatherers.
Author : John E. Bradley
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Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book An Archaeological Survey and Predictive Model of Selected Areas of Utah's Cisco Desert written by John E. Bradley and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Aaron Michael Greiner
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Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (531 download)
Download or read book Geographic Information System Modeling to Predict Potential Great Oasis Site Locations in Iowa written by Aaron Michael Greiner and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study utilized Geographic Information Systems to create predictive models for archaeological sites in northwestern and central Iowa. The modeling focused on the group known as the Great Oasis culture that lived in Iowa between 950 and 1100 AD. A total of 139 Great Oasis sites are currently identified. Iowa has approximately 65 archaeological sites identified with a Great Oasis component that are concentrated in three major clusters near Sioux City, along the Des Moines River and along the Raccoon Rivers. One hundred and thirty non-sites were randomly selected for comparison with the known sites. The Great Oasis sites were modeled using a Geographic Information Systems database to create descriptive and predictive models of the environmental factors that may have influenced prehistoric site locations. The purpose of this study was to improve the understanding of Great Oasis sites in Iowa and determine the predictive power of archaeological modeling. Environmental variables were chosen based upon current literature about the Great Oasis and on Chi-Square analysis of variables. The variables found to be most appropriate for Great Oasis modeling were landscape position, distance to water, drainage class, parent material, and GLO historic vegetation. Three models were generated using ArcView 3.2. Statistical methods were used to determine the power of each model for predicting site locations. All models were analyzed using Chi-Square analysis, logistic regression, and map calculations. The models displayed a 43% to 59% improvement over chance for selecting areas that might contain Great Oasis sites. Archaeologists may use the findings to identify Great Oasis habitation sites and could be beneficial to Cultural Resource Management field surveys. Geographic Information Systems modeling of Great Oasis sites offers another tool for the analysis of site data.
