Modelling Human Behaviour in Landscapes
Basic Concepts and Modelling Elements
Authors: Nakoinz, Oliver, Knitter, Daniel
Free Preview- Provides a comprehensive overview of basic modelling techniques
- Includes open source software codes and data from real projects
- Discusses the emergence and development of modelling in archaeology
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- About this Textbook
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This volume is designed as a 12-lecture textbook, which can serve as a course companion, self teaching guide and handbook for basic concepts. Each lecture comprises 20 pages, in which the methods are introduced, examples shown and the code is given. All examples are computed with open source software, mainly R, and with archaeological data available from the book's website.
The book does not describe elaborated high-end models but rather very basic modelling concepts that serve as components in more complex models. The book enables the reader to construct such models by themselves and be sensitive for certain problems. In addition it gives hints for the interpretation of the results.
Students are usually quick to apply fancy methods yet fail in the proper interpretation due to a lack of understanding of the underlying principles. This problem is addressed by the proposed book through three concepts:
1. Command line software forces the students to first learn some details before they are able to produce results on their own.
2. The book is focused on principles and methods. When the students understand a few basic principles, they have far better access to a wide range of related methods.
3. Examples of poor analysis highlight common pitfalls.
The volume attempts to be an applied, minimalistic and efficient textbook and is based upon several successful courses. - About the authors
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Oliver Nakoinz
Daniel Knitter
- Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Introduction and Mathematics
Pages 1-22
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Theory of Modelling
Pages 23-44
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Software
Pages 45-66
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Density
Pages 67-85
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Regression and Interpolation
Pages 87-105
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Modelling Human Behaviour in Landscapes
- Book Subtitle
- Basic Concepts and Modelling Elements
- Authors
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- Oliver Nakoinz
- Daniel Knitter
- Series Title
- Quantitative Archaeology and Archaeological Modelling
- Copyright
- 2016
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer International Publishing Switzerland
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-29538-1
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-29538-1
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-29536-7
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-80593-1
- Series ISSN
- 2366-5998
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIX, 255
- Number of Illustrations
- 107 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour
- Topics
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