GIS for Archaeology, Module 7

This week was all about interpolations, and I ran many of them, comparing the results of different interpolation methods and different parameters for some of them. We used two different datasets for this lab, one for shovel test results from a site in Panama and one for population estimates for a regional survey in Ecuador. For the latter, we then used the interpolations to consider settlement patterning for a particular time period, having read an interesting article that described several case studies using a similar methodology. There are more complete descriptions on the map posters below.