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Spatial association in archaeology. Development of statistical methodologies and computer techniques for spatial association of surface, lattice and point processes, applied to prehistoric evidence in North Yorkshire and to the Heslerton Romano-British site.

Kelly, Michael A.
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2010-07-16T15:58:14Z
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Haigh, J.
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Archaeology, Spatial association, Statistical methods, Computer analysis, Prehistoric sites, North Yorkshire, England, Geophysical surveying, Surface distribution collection, Aerial photography, Regional lattice processes, Point processes
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University of Bradford
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Postgraduate School of Studies in Physics
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1986
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The thesis investigates the concepts of archaeological spatial association within the context of both site and regional data sets. The techniques of geophysical surveying, surface distribution collection and aerial photography are described and discussed. Several new developments of technique are presented as well as a detailed discussion of the problems of data presentation and analysis. The quantitative relationships between these data sets are explored by modelling them as operands and describing association in terms of operators. Both local and global measures of association are considered with a discussion as to their relative merits. Methods for the spatial association of regional lattice and point processes are developed. A detailed discussion of distance based spatial analysis techniques is presented.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10454/4397
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