Maximum entropy and GIS
The Ninevite 5 culture extended across a large area throughout the Northern Mesopotamian plains, from the first ranges of the Zagros Mountains to the east, and the course of the Khabur River, in the plains of the Syrian Jazeera (Hassakah Province), to the west. This wide extension, combined with mod...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2025 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
| Repositorio: | Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ddd.uab.cat:313566 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://ddd.uab.cat/record/313566 https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.1016/j.jasrep.2025.105231 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | GIS MaxEnt Ninevite 5 Settlement Pattern UGZAR Northern Mesopotamia |
| Sumario: | The Ninevite 5 culture extended across a large area throughout the Northern Mesopotamian plains, from the first ranges of the Zagros Mountains to the east, and the course of the Khabur River, in the plains of the Syrian Jazeera (Hassakah Province), to the west. This wide extension, combined with modern political divisions, the heterogeneous character of surveys undertaken in past decades, and uneven investigation efforts, has provided an incomplete general image of the settlement pattern of the Ninevite 5 period. This study addresses an attempt to describe the settlement pattern of a group of sites belonging to the Ninevite 5 period in a region in the Kurdistan of Iraq, an area known as UGZAR (Upper Great Zab Archaeological Survey). In order to fulfil our objective, the area has been studied using a combination of machine learning and GIS software to establish the settlement pattern through the modelling of several geographical and political variables. To do so, we applied the Maximum Entropy modelling to the UGZAR region during this period. Ultimately, this approach aims to overcome the fragmentary vision that currently rules the research on this period and offers an initial study of the Ninevite 5 settlement patterns and communities. |
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