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BOREAS
卷 46, 期 4, 页码 805-815出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/bor.12252
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- Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness [HAR2013-45246-C3-1-P]
- Ministry of Culture
Spatial statistical models are powerful tools for creating simulation and prediction models. Here, weapply such models to the newly discovered 1.84 Ma site of DS(Bed I, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania). Ongoing excavation has already exposed 370 m(2) of the same discrete archaeological level. This is the biggest window into an Early Pleistocene anthropogenic site. With such a large area opened, modelling based on spatial trends (using coordinates) and on covariates (topography) has enabled the creation of predictions about where the densest concentrations of unexcavated materials may lie. Following this modelling, excavation has confirmed the predictions; the densest clusters of stone tools and fossils bones are palaeotopographically and palaeoecologically influenced. Spatial statistical analysis is, therefore, a powerful analytical tool to model and understand in-site and off-site homin in behaviour as an interaction between hominins and environments.
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