SBC Predictive Model

<p>Data and code used for the development of an <strong>ethnoarchaeological inductive predictive model</strong>&nbsp;in the central italian Alps (Upper Brembo Valley, province of Bergamo, Italy). SBC is for "Sorgenti del Brembo di Carona" (Source of the Carona branch of the River Brembo).</p> <p>The position of modern summer farms, along with a sample of random points, and physical landscape data, are used to calculate an inductive predictive model centered on pastoral activities. The calculation is done mainly with GRASS GIS and R/RStudio. Some data are pre-processed using QGIS.</p> <p>The model creation and output is <strong>discussed in:</strong> CROCE, E., CARRER, F. &amp; ANGELUCCI, D.E., 2025, Ethnoarchaeological Inductive Predictive Model: A Field Test in the Italian Alps<em>,</em>&nbsp;<em>Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory</em> 32, 43. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-025-09712-w">https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-025-09712-w</a></p> <p>The inductive predictive model was&nbsp;<strong>originally created as part of a PhD Thesis</strong>:&nbsp;<em>CROCE E., 2022, Archeologia d'alta quota alle sorgenti del Brembo, </em>PhD Thesis, A.A. 2020/2021, Universit&agrave; di Trento<em>.</em>&nbsp;<a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.15168/11572_350299" rel="nofollow">https://dx.doi.org/10.15168/11572_350299</a></p> <p>The methodology is <strong>based upon the previous work of F. Carrer</strong>&nbsp;(which co-authored also the present model):&nbsp;<em>CARRER F., 2013, </em>An ethnoarchaeological inductive model for predicting archaeological site location: a case-study of pastoral settlement patterns in the Val di Fiemme and Val di Sole (Trentino, Italian Alps)<em>, Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 32, pp. 54-62.</em>&nbsp;<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2012.10.001" rel="nofollow">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2012.10.001</a></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>