Definition: Predictive modeling involves figuring out what environmental and social variables are attractive reasons for people choosing to live in a particular space, and using that information to predict where archaeological sites might be.
While archaeologists have been doing predictive modeling in an informal way probably since the early 20th century, the new application of spatial modeling (GIS) has made this technique far more usable and consistent.
This glossary entry is part of the Dictionary of Archaeology.
While archaeologists have been doing predictive modeling in an informal way probably since the early 20th century, the new application of spatial modeling (GIS) has made this technique far more usable and consistent.
Source
Hasenstab, Robert J. and Benjamin Resnick. 1990 GIS in historical predictive modelling: The Fort Drum Project. In Interpreting Space: GIS and Archaeology. Kathleen M. S. Allen, Stanton W. Green, and Ezra B. W. Zubrow, eds. Pp. 284-306. London: Taylor & Francis.This glossary entry is part of the Dictionary of Archaeology.
