Have Chert Will Travel: Anisotropic Transportation Cost Models of the Valuable Mill Creek Chert Hoe
Author(s): Patrick Livingood; Christina Friberg
Year: 2019
Summary
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
The Mill Creek hoe industry was integral to the political consolidation of Greater Cahokia. Manufactured at the chert quarries in southern Illinois and distributed throughout the Mississippi valley, previous research examined the relationship between Mill Creek hoe abundance and straight-line distance between source and site to produce characteristic fall-off curves. This paper reexamines these distribution patterns in terms of cost-distance, utilizing an anisotropic transportation model which permits both pedestrian and canoe travel and considers costs of moving heavy loads. This paper will expand on earlier work and also present efforts to make the code for this available to other researchers.
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Have Chert Will Travel: Anisotropic Transportation Cost Models of the Valuable Mill Creek Chert Hoe. Patrick Livingood, Christina Friberg. Presented at The 84th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Albuquerque, NM. 2019 ( tDAR id: 450171)
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Keywords
General
cost distance
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Digital Archaeology: GIS
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Mississippian
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Quantitative and Spatial Analysis
Geographic Keywords
North America: Midwest
Spatial Coverage
min long: -103.975; min lat: 36.598 ; max long: -80.42; max lat: 48.922 ;
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 24249