Practical applications of GIS for archaelogists : a predictive modeling toolkit /

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Imprint:London ; Philadelphia : Taylor and Francis, 2000.
Description:xiv, 160 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. + 1 computer optical disc (4 3/4 in.)
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3962197
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Varying Form of Title:Practical applications of geographic information systems for archaelogists
Other authors / contributors:Wescott, Konnie.
Brandon, R. Joe, 1967-
ISBN:0748408304 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Contributors
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. A Predictive Model of Archaeological Site Location in the Eastern Prairie Peninsula
  • 2.1. Introduction
  • 2.2. Predictive modeling
  • 2.3. Materials and methods
  • 2.4. Results
  • 2.5. Discussion and conclusions
  • 3. The Application of GIS Predictive Site Location Models within Pennsylvania and West Virginia
  • 3.1. Introduction
  • 3.2. Background
  • 3.3. Predictive model development
  • 3.4. Additional GIS Predictive Models
  • 3.5. Discussion
  • 3.6. Conclusions
  • 4. Using a GIS to Model Prehistoric Site Distributions in the Upper Chesapeake Bay
  • 4.1. Introduction
  • 4.2. Aberdeen proving ground
  • 4.3. The model
  • 4.4. Results
  • 5. Protecting Cultural Resources through Forest Management Planning in Ontario Using Archaeological Predictive Modeling
  • 5.1. Introduction
  • 5.2. Background
  • 5.3. Modeling methodology
  • 5.4. Model research and development
  • 5.5. Pilot projects
  • 5.6. Oil and water can mix! Integrating archaeology into forest management planning
  • 5.7. Summary
  • 6. Considerations of Scale in Modeling Settlement Patterns Using GIS: An Iroquois Example
  • 6.1. Introduction
  • 6.2. Spatial scale and kinds of problems
  • 6.3. Global, regional, and local views of the Iroquoian world
  • 6.4. GIS and spatial scale: global, regional, and local views
  • 6.5. Central New York region: regional and local
  • 6.6. Conclusions
  • 7. Construction of Digital Elevation Models for Archaeological Applications
  • 7.1. Introduction
  • 7.2. Why should the archaeologist care about interpolation?
  • 7.3. What is interpolation?
  • 7.4. Selecting an interpolation algorithm
  • 7.5. A Belizean case study
  • 7.6. Conclusion
  • 8. The State of the Art in "Inductive" Predictive Modeling: Seven Big Mistakes (and Lots of Smaller Ones)
  • 8.1. Introduction
  • 8.2. GIS is revolutionizing predictive modeling
  • 8.3. Predictive modeling predicts and models the past
  • 8.4. What we want to predict is site location
  • 8.5. Proximity to environmental variables is important
  • 8.6. Maps contain environmental variables
  • 8.7. Map data is inaccurate
  • 8.8. The accuracy of inductive predictive models can be determined
  • 9. GIS Applications in Archaeology: Method in Search of Theory
  • 9.1. Current use of GIS in archaeology
  • 9.2. Correlative predictive models
  • 9.3. The resource landscape
  • 9.4. An alternative: explanatory models from a landscape perspective
  • 9.5. Tools to tackle landscapes
  • 9.6. The temporal dimension
  • 9.7. Scale and grain
  • 9.8. The role of climate
  • 9.9. Geomorphological processes and their impact
  • 9.10. Summary
  • 9.11. Concluding remarks
  • Index