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Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 18:32:55 EST
From: HLines@aol.com
To: acra-l@lists.nonprofit.net
Subject: Job Opportunity
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Hardlines Design Company is seeking talented and ambitious archaeologists to
add to and assist in expanding our archaeology department in Columbus, Ohio.
Candidates must have graduate degree in Archaeology, Anthropology, or related
field with experience to quality as a Principal Investigator in historic
and/or prehistoric archaeology. We have interesting projects nationwide and
throughout Ohio, and offer successful candidates the means to grow the
department as your talents allow.
Interested candidates may send resumes ASAP to: Charissa Wang, Hardlines
Design Company, 4608 Indianola Avenue, Columbus, OH 43214. Tel: 614-784-8733,
fax: 614-784-9336. We actively encourage women and minorities to apply.
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Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 10:57:56 -0600
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From: Robert J Hoard@MODOT on 02/23/2000 10:57 AM

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JOB ANNOUNCEMENT
SUMMER POSITIONS–CULTURAL RESOURCES ASSISTANTS
MISSOURI DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION (MoDOT)
CULTURAL RESOURCES SECTION
Archaeological Field Technicians, Archaeological Laboratory Technician, and
Historical Assistant
Several full-time, temporary positions will be available this summer with the
Missouri Department of Transportation's Cultural Resources Section. The
employment period will be from May through August, 2000. The positions require
completion of at least one year of college with course work in history,
architectural history, anthropology/archaeology or related disciplines.
Archaeological Field Technicians (up to 6 positions): Duties will be
focused on
archaeological field work and will include background research, Phase I, Phase
II, and Phase III cultural resources investigations, preparation and
analysis of
artifacts, and preparation of material needed for the evaluation of historic
structures. Safety toe boots meeting ANSI standard C-75 will be required for
some field work.
Archaeological Laboratory Technician (1 position): Duties will include the
cleaning and analysis of materials from current archaeological projects and
the
preparation of older collections for curation. Neat, legible handwriting is
required. Occasional fieldwork is possible.
Historical Assistant (1 position): Duties will include research on historic
bridges, buildings and archaeological sites; photographic documentation of
bridges and buildings, and assistance with report preparation.
The Cultural Resources Section of MoDOT is based in Jefferson City, the
state's
capital. Frequent travel, using state-owned vehicles, within the state of
Missouri is required. When travelling, employees will need to have sufficient
funds to cover travel expenses (meals and lodging) until they are reimbursed
around the middle of the following month. Wages will vary from $7.00 to $10.00
hourly, based on education and experience.
Individuals interested in applying should request an application from:
Missouri Department of Transportation
Human Resources Division
P.O. Box 270
Jefferson City, MO 65102
(573) 751-9200
email: tayloh@mail.modot.state.mo.us
or visit our web site at www.modot.state.mo.us and download an application
(Adobe Acrobat Reader is required)
Please specify the position for which you are applying (Archaeological field,
Historian, or Archaeological lab).
All applicants will be required to send a completed MoDOT application, a
vitae/resume, and a copy of their college transcripts (need not be an official
copy). Drug testing, which will be arranged by and paid for by MoDOT, is
required after a conditional offer of employment is made. Drug testing will be
arranged at a location near you.
Review of applications will begin March 20, 2000
MoDOT is an equal opportunity employer.
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Robert J. Hoard, Ph.D., R.P.A.
Archaeology Field Director 573.526.3593 voice
MoDOT, Design 573.526.1300 fax
P.O. Box 270 hoardr@mail.modot.state.mo.us
Jefferson City, MO 65102 www.modot.state.mo.us

Table of Contents for Practical Applications of GIS for Archaeologists: A
predictive Modeling Kit (GIS Data Series) published by Taylor and
Francis. Available at http://books.shovelbums.org

R. Joe

Contents
Contributors xi
Preface
R. Joe Brandon xiii
Acknowledgments
Konnie L. Wescott and R. Joe Brandon xv
1 Introduction 1
Konnie L. Wescott
2 A Predictive Model of Archaeological Site Location in the
Eastern Prairie Peninsula 5
Robert E. Warren and David L. Asch
2.1 Introduction 5
2.2 Predictive modeling 6
2.3 Materials and methods 9
2.4 Results 16
2.5 Discussion and conclusions 25
3 The Application of GIS Predictive Site Location Models
within Pennsylvania and West Virginia 33
Richard B. Duncan and Kristen A. Beckman
3.1 Introduction 33
3.2 Background 34
3.3 Predictive model development 34
3.4 Additional GIS Predictive Models 48
3.5 Discussion 55
3.6 Conclusions 56
4 Using a GIS to Model Prehistoric Site Distributions in the
Upper Chesapeake Bay 59
Konnie L. Wescott and James A. Kuiper
4.1 Introduction 59
4.2 Aberdeen proving ground 60
4.3 The model 60
4.4 Results 67
5 Protecting Cultural Resources through Forest Management
Planning in Ontario Using Archaeological Predictive Modeling 73
Luke Dalla Bona
5.1 Introduction 73
5.2 Background 74
5.3 Modeling methodology 75
5.4 Model research and development 77
5.5 Pilot projects 78
5.6 Oil and water can mix! Integrating archaeology into forest
management planning 94
5.7 Summary 97
6 Considerations of Scale in Modeling Settlement Patterns
Using GIS: An Iroquois Example 101
Kathleen M. Sydoriak Allen
6.1 Introduction 101
6.2 Spatial scale and kinds of problems 102
6.3 Global, regional, and local views of the Iroquoian world 103
6.4 GIS and spatial scale: global, regional, and local views 105
6.5 Central New York region: regional and local 108
6.6 Conclusions 110
7 Construction of Digital Elevation Models for Archaeological
Applications 113
Jon B. Hageman and David A. Bennett
7.1 Introduction 113
7.2 Why should the archaeologist care about interpolation? 114
7.3 What is interpolation? 115
7.4 Selecting an interpolation algorithm 117
7.5 A Belizean case study 118
7.6 Conclusion 124
8 The State of the Art in Inductive Predictive Modeling:
Seven Big Mistakes (and Lots of Smaller Ones) 129
James I. Ebert
8.1 Introduction 129
8.2 GIS is revolutionizing predictive modeling 129
8.3 Predictive modeling predicts and models the past 130
8.4 What we want to predict is site location 130
8.5 Proximity to environmental variables is important 131
8.6 Maps contain environmental variables 132
8.7 Map data is inaccurate 132
8.8 The accuracy of inductive predictive models can be
determined 133
9 GIS Applications in Archaeology: Method in Search of Theory 135
Tim Church, R. Joe Brandon, and Galen R. Burgett
9.1 Current use of GIS in archaeology 135
9.2 Correlative predictive models 136
9.3 The resource landscape 142
9.4 An alternative: explanatory models from a landscape
perspective 146
9.5 Tools to tackle landscapes 147
9.6 The temporal dimension 147
9.7 Scale and grain 148
9.8 The role of climate 148
9.9 Geomorphological processes and their impact 148
9.10 Summary 149
9.11 Concluding remarks 150
Index 156

Contributors
Kathleen M. Sydoriak Allen
Department of Anthropology
3H01 Forbes Quad
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 152607400 USA
David L. Asch
Illinois State Museum
1011 East Ash Street
Springfield, IL 627033535 USA
Kristen A. Beckman
Skelly and Loy, Inc.
520 Seco Road
Monroeville, PA 15146 USA
David A. Bennett
Department of Geography
The University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS 660452121 USA
R. Joe Brandon
Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies
Room 12 Ozark Hall
University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, AR 72701 USA
Galen R. Burgett
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
423 Hatchery Circle
Spearfish, SD 57783 USA
4
5Tim Church
Lone Mountain Archaeological
Services, Inc.
#5 Butterfield Trail
Suite F
El Paso, TX 79906 USA
Luke Dalla Bona
Woodland Heritage Services
548 Queen Street, 2nd Floor
Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
Canada P6A 2A1
Richard B. Duncan
Skelly and Loy, Inc.
520 Seco Road
Monroeville, PA 15146 USA
James I. Ebert
Ebert & Associates, Inc.
3700 Rio Grande Blvd. NW
Suite 3
Albuquerque, NM 871073042 USA
Jon B. Hageman
Department of Anthropology
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale, IL 629014502 USA
James A. Kuiper
Argonne National Laboratory
9700 South Cass Avenue
EAD, Building 900
Argonne, IL 604394832 USA
Robert E. Warren
Illinois State Museum
1011 East Ash Street
Springfield, IL 627033535 USA
Konnie L. Wescott
Argonne National Laboratory
9700 South Cass Avenue
EAD, Building 900
Argonne, IL 604394832 USA
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3
4
5
6Preface
During the 1995 Society for American Archaeology (SAA) Meetings in Minneapolis,
Minnesota, I caught up with my old friend Konnie Wescott, who happened to be
presenting a paper in a general session I was attending on Information
Management
and Remote Sensing. It appeared that our research interests had crossed
paths again.
While attending Northern Illinois University in the late 1980s, we had both
worked
at the site of Copan, Honduras, under Dr. William Fash, and now we found
ourselves
pursuing work tied to the many facets of geographic information systems (GIS).
Konnie had continued her affiliation with Argonne National Laboratory. As a
prin-cipal
investigator, she discovered the myriad of potential applications of GIS in
archaeology, whether it be for predictive modeling, cultural resources
management,
or, even more generally, the environmental planning and management of both
natural
and cultural resources. I was coming in from a more technical direction, having
worked at Fort Bliss, Texas, researching the relationship of archaeological
sites with
the dynamic desert landscape.
We outlined a plan of attack for the remainder of the meeting by which the two
of us would be able to cover most of the GIS papers being presented. In the
after-noons
we would meet to discuss the pros and cons of the papers we had seen.
By Saturday afternoon we were both exhausted, and disappointed. With the
excep-tion
of a few papers, it seemed the current use of GIS in archaeology was limited to
including this catchy buzzword in the title of the presentations. We found
that archae-ologists,
instead of using GIS as a tool to explore human interaction with the
prehistoric and historic landscape, utilized GIS for nothing grander than
gee-whiz
visualization of data.
Konnie and I reflected on how little direction there was for this
potentially useful
tool. We were also concerned about a possible backlash to the poorly
represented
application of this technology. If it became the norm to use GIS as a
catchphrase to
draw people to a paper with little GIS substance, those archaeologists with
potential
interest in the technology might leave with a bitter taste in their mouths.
The lessons
of the 1970s when statistics came to center stage in archaeology were fresh
in our
minds. During its heyday, statistics had been waved above archaeologists
heads as
an answer to dealing with a multitude of archaeological problems. In the
end, after
much yelling and arm-waving, most agreed that statistics were not an answer
in them-selves
but, like GIS, an extremely important tool available for archaeological use.
That afternoon, slumped on a bench, as we watched the number of brown corduroy
jackets with patches on their sleeves dwindle, we decided that for the 1996
SAAs
we would organize a focused GIS symposium. Together we hammered out the idea
to bring together more than just a catch-all symposium on GIS. Our
symposium would
be tightly focused on a theme with broad implications in archaeological
research for
both the academic and commercial worlds: predictive modeling. From the
outset we
orchestrated this symposium to be directed towards generating a publication
on GIS
uses for predictive modeling. We both felt that the archaeological
community would
benefit from a book with a narrower and more clearly defined focus. We also
believed
that by presenting GIS as what it is, a useful and robust tool, and not an
answer in
and of itself, we could help steer GIS applications in archaeology on a
more solid
course. Nor did it hurt our motivation when we realized the meetings would
be in
New Orleans at the end of Bourbon Street.
The symposium at the New Orleans SAAs in 1996 was well received. Our plan
not to become mired in introductions as to what GIS is, or the intricacies
of each
particular GIS software and hardware product, was appealing to both the
participants
and the audience. This focused structure allowed the presentations to
concentrate on
the application and caveats when using GIS for predictive modeling. These
concepts,
such as significance of specialized layers, data development concerns, and
theoretical
considerations, provided the audience with a solid grasp of the important
issues archae-ologists
need to address and work with in predictive modeling. Because of this tight
focus on the real and long-term implications of GIS predictive modeling, we
feel that
the chapters in this book represent a robust body of research that will be
as useful
to archaeology in twenty years as it is today. This volume addresses the
important
issues of understanding and applying GIS and predictive modeling to the
landscape.
R. JOE BRANDON
Fayetteville, Arkansas