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Least Cost Analysis of Social Landscapes: Archaeological Case Studies
Sarah L. Surface-Evans Devin A. White
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Description for Least Cost Analysis of Social Landscapes: Archaeological Case Studies
Hardcover. Case studies that act as a guidebook to archeologists on the uses of least cost analysis using GIS methodologies Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations (some col.), maps (some col.). BIC Classification: HD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 20. Weight in Grams: 686.
A growing number of archaeologists are applying Geographic Information Science (GIS) technologies to their research problems and questions. Advances in GIS and its use across disciplines allows for collaboration and enables archaeologists to ask ever more sophisticated questions and develop increasingly elaborate models on numerous aspects of past human behavior. Least cost analysis (LCA) is one such avenue of inquiry. While least cost studies are not new to the social sciences in general, LCA is relatively new to archaeology, and, until now, there has been no systematic exploration of its use within the field. This edited volume presents a series ... Read more
A growing number of archaeologists are applying Geographic Information Science (GIS) technologies to their research problems and questions. Advances in GIS and its use across disciplines allows for collaboration and enables archaeologists to ask ever more sophisticated questions and develop increasingly elaborate models on numerous aspects of past human behavior. Least cost analysis (LCA) is one such avenue of inquiry. While least cost studies are not new to the social sciences in general, LCA is relatively new to archaeology, and, until now, there has been no systematic exploration of its use within the field. This edited volume presents a series ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Utah Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Salt Lake City, United States
ISBN
9781607811718
SKU
V9781607811718
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99-15
About Sarah L. Surface-Evans Devin A. White
Devin A. White received his PhD in anthropology from the University of Colorado, Boulder. He works at Integrity Applications Incorporated and is also a research associate at Crow Canyon Archaeological Center. Sarah L. Surface-Evans received her PhD from Michigan State University and is a postdoctoral fellow in archae-ology at Central Michigan University.
Reviews for Least Cost Analysis of Social Landscapes: Archaeological Case Studies
“Very significant. Scholarly contributions like this book will move archaeology rapidly into a new paradigm, beyond processualism and post-processualism, and into an identity of its own.”—Douglas C. Comer, author of Ritual Ground: Bent’s Old Fort, World Formation, and the Annexation of the Southwest