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(s): Philip Verhagen
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 256
Table of Contents
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Preface
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Ch. 7: Predictive models put to the test
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Ch. 1: A Condensed History of Predictive Modelling in Archaeology
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Part 1: Practical Applications
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Ch. 2: The use of Predictive Modelling for Guiding the Archaeological Survey of Roman Pottery Kilns in the Argonne Region
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Ch. 3: The hidden reserve. Predictive modelling of buried archaeological sites in the Tricastin-Valdaine region
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Ch. 4: Quantifying the Qualified: the Use of Multicriteria Methods and Bayesian Statistics for the Development of Archaeological Predictive Models
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Part 2: Archaeological Prospection, Sampling and Predictive Modelling
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Ch. 5: Establishing optimal core sampling strategies: theory, simulation and practical implications
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Ch. 6: Prospection strategies and archaeological predictive modelling
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Part 3: Alternative ways of predictive modelling
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Ch. 8: Modelling Prehistoric Land Use Distribution in the Río Aguas Valley
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Ch. 9: Some considerations on the use of archaeological land evaluation
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Ch. 10: First thoughts on the incorporation of cultural variables into predictive modelling
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Epilogue: Whither Archaeological Predictive Modelling
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Samenvatting
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