Maximum entropy and GIS : An approach to assessing the settlement pattern of the Ninevite 5 culture (3000-2500 BCE) in the Upper Great Zab region (Erbil Province, Kurdistan region of Iraq)
Soriano Elias, Biel (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Prehistòria)
Garcia-Ramis, Francesc Xavier (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Prehistòria)
Molist, Miquel, 1956- (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Prehistòria)

Data:	2025
Descripció:	12 pàg.
Resum:	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.
Nota:	Altres ajuts: acords transformatius de la UAB
Nota:	Altres ajuts: Biel Soriano-Elias is the beneficiary of an AGAUR FI - ajuts (2023FI100107) Joan Oró, supported by the AGAUR-FI Predoctoral Fellowship Program (2024 FI-3 00065) Joan Oró, from the Secretaria d'Universitats i Recerca del Departament de Recerca i Universitats de la Generalitat de Catalunya and the Fons Europeu Social Plus.This project is being developed at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Departament de Prehistòria, SAPPO/GRAMPO, in the framework of the Quadriennal project of the Generalitat de Catalunya 2022-2025: "Poblament del període neolític en la desembocadura del Ter: Vilanera/Empúries i el seu entorn" (CLT009/22/000058 - IP: M. Molist) funded by Agencia de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR - Generalitat de Catalunya).
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Llengua:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Matèria:	GIS ; MaxEnt ; Ninevite 5 ; Settlement Pattern ; UGZAR ; Northern Mesopotamia
Publicat a:	Journal of archaeological science: reports, Vol. 65 (2025) , p. 105231, ISSN 2352-4103

DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2025.105231

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