Geospatial modeling of pedestrian transportation networks: a case study from precolumbian Oaxaca, Mexico

DA White, SB Barber - Journal of archaeological science, 2012 - Elsevier
Using accumulated cost surfaces and various pathfinding techniques within Geographic
Information Systems (GIS) software, archaeologists and other spatial scientists have …

The basics of least cost analysis for archaeological applications

DA White - Advances in Archaeological Practice, 2015 - cambridge.org
Least Cost Analysis (LCA) is a geospatially focused quantitative approach that can help
archaeologists better understand how people may have moved across a landscape. At its …

Modeling Métis mobility? Evaluating least cost paths and indigenous landscapes in the Canadian west

K Supernant - Journal of Archaeological Science, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Geographic Information Systems (GIS) analyses in archaeology have been
criticized by archaeologists for being reductive, environmentally deterministic, and …

Our Checkered Past: Sites, Landscapes, Trails, and Transect-Recording Unit Survey

PO Leckman, M Heilen - Advances in Archaeological Practice, 2023 - cambridge.org
Despite advocacy of landscape approaches in cultural resource management (CRM) and
critiques of the site concept, CRM data collection methods in the western United States …

Least-cost networks

I Herzog - Archaeology in the Digital Era. Papers from the 40th …, 2012 - cambridge.org
Many archaeologists applying GIS software for least-cost studies do not fully understand the
functions employed to create least-cost networks, and so they are not aware of the …

The importance of energetics in archaeological least cost analysis

S Field, DM Glowacki, LT Gettler - Journal of Archaeological Method and …, 2023 - Springer
Least cost analysis (LCA) has emerged as a favored geospatial method used by
archaeologists to model potential pathways of movement. To produce increasingly effective …

Reconstructing archaeological networks with structural holes

V Amati, T Shafie, U Brandes - Journal of Archaeological Method and …, 2018 - Springer
Abstract Model-based reconstruction is an approach to infer network structures where they
cannot be observed. For archaeological networks, several models based on assumptions …

[PDF][PDF] Seascape corridors: modeling routes to connect communities across the Caribbean

ER Slayton - 2018 - scholarlypublications …
For this second case study, I modeled routes between islands in the Greater and the Lesser
Antilles in the Late Ceramic Age (AD 1200–1500). Inter-island interaction during this period …

From cost to conductance: A technique for incorporating social conductance in Least cost analysis

S Field, RS Weiner, KM Reese - Journal of Archaeological Science, 2024 - Elsevier
We draw attention to differences in logistic least cost rationales that emphasize the practical
conditions that push people toward optimization and social approaches, which emphasize …

Minding the gap: The via Amerina and the Middle Tiber Valley

MC Harder - Journal of Archaeological Science, 2025 - Elsevier
The landscape of the Middle Tiber Valley in Central Italy was an important crossroads for
millennia thanks to the network of transhumance routes, Roman roads, and of course, the …