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Contributors | |
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Preface | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Introduction | |
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A Predictive Model of Archaeological Site Location in the Eastern Prairie Peninsula | |
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Introduction | |
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Predictive modeling | |
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Materials and methods | |
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Results | |
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Discussion and conclusions | |
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The Application of GIS Predictive Site Location Models within Pennsylvania and West Virginia | |
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Introduction | |
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Background | |
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Predictive model development | |
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Additional GIS Predictive Models | |
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Discussion | |
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Conclusions | |
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Using a GIS to Model Prehistoric Site Distributions in the Upper Chesapeake Bay | |
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Introduction | |
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Aberdeen proving ground | |
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The model | |
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Results | |
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Protecting Cultural Resources through Forest Management Planning in Ontario Using Archaeological Predictive Modeling | |
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Introduction | |
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Background | |
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Modeling methodology | |
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Model research and development | |
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Pilot projects | |
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Oil and water can mix! Integrating archaeology into forest management planning | |
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Summary | |
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Considerations of Scale in Modeling Settlement Patterns Using GIS: An Iroquois Example | |
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Introduction | |
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Spatial scale and kinds of problems | |
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Global, regional, and local views of the Iroquoian world | |
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GIS and spatial scale: global, regional, and local views | |
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Central New York region: regional and local | |
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Conclusions | |
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Construction of Digital Elevation Models for Archaeological Applications | |
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Introduction | |
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Why should the archaeologist care about interpolation? | |
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What is interpolation? | |
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Selecting an interpolation algorithm | |
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A Belizean case study | |
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Conclusion | |
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The State of the Art in "Inductive" Predictive Modeling: Seven Big Mistakes (and Lots of Smaller Ones) | |
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Introduction | |
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GIS is revolutionizing predictive modeling | |
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Predictive modeling predicts and models the past | |
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What we want to predict is site location | |
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Proximity to environmental variables is important | |
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Maps contain environmental variables | |
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Map data is inaccurate | |
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The accuracy of inductive predictive models can be determined | |
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GIS Applications in Archaeology: Method in Search of Theory | |
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Current use of GIS in archaeology | |
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Correlative predictive models | |
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The resource landscape | |
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An alternative: explanatory models from a landscape perspective | |
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Tools to tackle landscapes | |
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The temporal dimension | |
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Scale and grain | |
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The role of climate | |
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Geomorphological processes and their impact | |
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Summary | |
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Concluding remarks | |
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Index | |