Spatial Analysis in Archaeology

This 1976 text is a pioneering study in the applications to archaeology of modern statistical and quantitative techniques.

List of contents

Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Archaeological distribution maps: a quantified approach and associated problems; 3. Point pattern analysis; 4. Some models for settlement patterns; 5. The distribution of single artefact types; 6. The association between distributions; 7. The relationship between sites and other features; 8. Conclusion; Appendix; Index.

Summary

This 1976 text is a pioneering study in the applications to archaeology of modern statistical and quantitative techniques. The authors show how these techniques, when sensitively employed, can dramatically extend and refine the information presented in distribution maps and other analyses of spatial relationships.

Product details

• Authors: Ian Hodder, Clive Orton
• Assisted by: Colin Renfrew (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2010
• EAN: 9780521297387
• ISBN: 978-0-521-29738-7
• No. of pages: 284
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 465 g
• Series: New Studies in Archaeology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity