Making Space for an Archaeology of Place

David Wheatley

List of Figures

Figure 1: A positive feedback in which a biased model causes archaeologists to look more closely at areas already identified as having more sites, thus reinforcing the bias in the original model.

Figure 2: The feedback loop repeats itself through time, ensuring that each iteration of a predictive model leads to an even more unrepresentative database of archaeological materials.

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