Practical applications of GIS for archaelogists : a predictive modeling toolkit /
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Imprint: | London ; Philadelphia : Taylor and Francis, 2000. |
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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 |
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