What problem does it solve?
This Skill helps you turn raw archaeological site locations into spatial insights, including clustering, density hotspots, territorial catchments, and predictive site-likelihood maps.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Site catchment analysis: Create resource-availability territories using buffer radii (e.g., 1-hour and 2-hour walking distances).
- Nearest neighbor & spatial clustering: Quantify whether site distributions are clustered, random, or dispersed using nearest neighbor statistics.
- Kernel density estimation (KDE) & hotspot mapping: Produce smoothed density surfaces and identify hotspot zones for guiding fieldwork.
- Thiessen (Voronoi) territories: Generate per-site territorial polygons and compute their area for comparative site landscape analysis.
- Predictive site location modeling: Build feature-based models (e.g., using environmental covariates) to estimate where sites are likely to occur.
Quick Start
Use the archaeological-gis skill to compute nearest neighbor clustering and KDE hotspots from your archaeological site coordinates, then output catchment buffers and Thiessen territories as GIS-ready results.
