Practical Applications of GIS for Archaeologists
Subtitle: a Predictive Modelling Toolkit
Contributors: Brandon, R.
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 187
ISBN-13: 9780203212134
Subjects: Archaeology; Data processing
Description: The use of Geographic Information Systems is the most important and powerful technology introduced to archaeology since carbon dating. Containing a free integrated CDROM, this book focuses on GIS use in predicting archaeological site locations.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Book Cover; Title; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; A Predictive Model of Archaeological Site Location in the Eastern Prairie Peninsula; Predictive modeling; Materials and methods; Results; Discussion and conclusions; The Application of GIS Predictive Site Location Models within Pennsylvania and West Virginia; Background; Additional GIS Predictive Models; Discussion; Conclusions; Using a GIS to Model Prehistoric Site Distributions in the Upper Chesapeake Bay; Aberdeen proving ground; Results.; title: Protecting Cultural Resources through Forest Management Planning in Ontario Using Archaeological Predictive ModelingBackground; Modeling methodology; Model research and development; Pilot projects; Oil and water can mix! Integrating archaeology into forest management planning; Summary; Considerations of Scale in Modeling Settlement Patterns Using GIS: An Iroquois Example; Spatial scale and kinds of problems; Global, regional, and local views of the Iroquoian world; GIS and spatial scale: globa.