Archaeological Prediction and Risk Management
Alternatives to Current Practice
Published on 14. May 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
162 pages
978-90-8728-067-3 (ISBN)
Description
Prediction models|Risk Management
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Dordrecht
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Adult education
Illustrations
Illustrated
Dimensions
Height: 273 mm
Weight
451 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-8728-067-3 (9789087280673)
DOI
10.5117/9789087280673
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Persons
Martijn van Leusen is researcher and assistant professor at the Archeological Institute of the University of Groningen.|Hans Kamermans is Head of the Centre for IT Expertise and associate professor at the Faculty of Archaeology at Leiden University.|Philip Verhagen is researcher at VU University Amsterdam.|Martijn van Leusen is assistant professor of Landscape Archaeology at the University of Groningen.|Mingquan Zhou is professor at the College of Information Science and Technology, Beijing Normal University.
Content
Contents - 6[-]Preface - 8[-]1. Archaeological prediction and risk management - 10[-]2. The future of archaeological predictive modelling5 - 20[-]3. On costs and benefits in archaeological prospection - 28[-]4. The high price or the first prize for the archaeological predictive model - 34[-]5. Archaeology as a risk in spatial planning: manoeuvring between objectivity and subjectivity - 42[-]6. Archaeological predictions contested: the role of the Dutch Indicative Map of Archaeological Values (IKAW) in local planning procedures - 50[-]7. Testing archaeological predictive models: a rough guide - 64[-]8. Predictive models put to the test - 72[-]9. Dealing with uncertainty in archaeological prediction - 124