Least Cost Analysis of Social Landscapes : Archaeological Case Studies.

Intro -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Chapter 1: An Introduction to the Least Cost Analysis of Social Landscapes -- Chapter 2: Using Least Cost Path Analysis to Reinterpret Late Upper Paleolithic Hunter-Gatherer Procurement Zones in Northern Spain -- Chapter 3: Connecting the Dots: Least Cost Analysis, Paleogeography, and the Search for Paleoindian Sites in Southern Highland Peru -- Chapter 4: Wandering the Desert: Least Cost Path Modeling for Water Transport Trails in the Jornada Mogollon Region, Fort Bliss, South-Central New Mexico -- Chapter 5: A Method for Multiple Cost-Surface Evaluation of a Model of Fort Ancient Interaction -- Chapter 6: Walking and Watching: New Approaches to Reconstructing Cultural Landscapes through Space Syntax Analysis -- Chapter 7: Social Interaction at the Maya Siteof Copán, Honduras: A Least Cost Approach to Configurational Analysis -- Chapter 8: Cost Catchments: A Least Cost Application for Modeling Hunter-Gatherer Land Use -- Chapter 9: Modeling the Consequences of Village Site Location: Least Cost Path Modeling in a Coupled GIS and Agent-Based Model of Village Agropastoralism in Eastern Spain -- Chapter 10: No Crows Made Mounds: Do Cost-Distance Calculations of Travel Time Improve Our Understanding of Southern Appalachian Polity Size? -- Chapter 11: Prehistoric Trail Networks of the Western Papaguería: A Multifaceted Least Cost Graph Theory Analysis -- Chapter 12: Seven Solutions for Seven Problems with Least Cost Pathways -- Chapter 13: Realism, Reality, and Routes: Evaluating Cost-Surface and Cost-Path Algorithms -- Chapter 14: Least Cost Pathway Analysis in Archaeological Research: Approaches and Utility -- Contributors -- Index.

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