New computer predictivemodel is useful in identifying ancient hunter-gatherer sites sfu PLOSONE
from destruction ensures that history is not lost and is especially important for communities that did not use written records; but before sites can be protected and studied, they must first be found," says SFU archeology Ph.D. student Rob Rondeau and interim director of SFU's Museum of Archeology and Ethnology.
Chris Carleton, now of the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology developed the Locally-Adaptive Model of Archeological Potential , a predictive model that considers distributions of values for landscape variables around known sites. LAMAP uses information from the landscape data to estimate the archeological potential of land that has not been examined by archeologists. Carleton successfully demonstrated the method on large, permanently occupied sites in Belize and Turkey.
Rondeau, an experienced underwater archeologist, connected with Carleton at the suggestion of SFU archeology professor Mark Collard, who supervised Carleton while he was a Ph.D. student and SFU post-doctoral fellow.
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