Increasing the scale of inquiry: A GIS approach to archaeology, environment and landscape during the early Holocene in Central Massachusetts

The site predictive models employed by archaeologists in New England depend on three modern topographic and soil classification criteria to detect Native American cultural materials. What is problematic is the fact that this model is used to predict all Late Pleistocene (12,900-10,000 BP) and early...

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Main Author: Curran, Kathryn
Language:EN
Published: ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst 2010
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Online Access:https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3397694