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Spatial Point Patterns and Processes

Bevan, Andrew·2020·Archaeological Spatial Analysis
DOI 10.4324/9781351243858-4
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This chapter reconsiders a well-known and long-established kind of archaeological dataset: the point pattern. Spatial distributions — in which simple points stand in for more complex entities such as artefacts or sites — have been an informal focus of archaeological attention for well over a century. For the last four decades or so, they have also received formal quantitative treatment, with techniques typically borrowed from neighbouring subject areas, even if archaeology poses its own distinctive challenges. In the last ten years, further major advances have been made that: (a) better foreground issues of spatial interaction, scale, directionality and process, (b) exploit the flexibility of computer-led simulation, and (c) attempt to model both exogenous influences on point intensity across a study area, and how points interact with one another (so-called first-and second-order properties). As a complement to other chapters in this volume, this contribution considers how we can not only calculate valid descriptions of archaeological point patterns over multiple spatial scales, but also simulate more complex models to understand how our observed patterns might have arisen. These methods have a very wide variety of potential archaeological applications.

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Authors
Bevan, A.
Venue
Archaeological Spatial Analysis
Publisher
Routledge
Published
2020-01-16
Pages
60-76
DOI
10.4324/9781351243858-4
OpenAlex
W2999025237
Cited by
34
References
2
Citations by year
2026: 3 · 2025: 8 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 2
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21.70
Type
book chapter
Language
en
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closed
Locations
Routledge eBooks (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Applied Mathematics › Point processes and geometric inequalities
  • Social Sciences › Archeology › Archaeological Research and Protection
  • Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Spatial and Panel Data Analysis
Keywords
spatial point patterns, archaeological site distribution, spatial interaction, spatial scale, directionality, computer simulation, external factors, spatial processes

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