Archaeological Modeling, Uncertainty (Other Keyword)
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Certainty about Uncertainty: Lessons Learned from Modeling Human Land Use and Decision Making (2018)
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A cornerstone of William Lovis’ career has been the investigation of human land use dynamics, with strong emphasis on methodological rigor and statistical analysis. He has led a generation of students to consider these issues in the Great Lakes and beyond. The modeling of past human decision making is useful as a heuristic for exploring goals and motivations, about which there is certainly a tremendous amount of uncertainty. Instead, modeling past behavior is inherently an exercise in balancing...