Archaeological Predictive Modeling Guide

This User’s Guide is written for non-statisticians and presents workflow procedures and R Scripts for MnModel Phase 4 archaeological predictive modeling (Hobbs 2019b). Procedures for developing the MnModel Phase 4 Historic Vegetation Model are documented separately (Landrum and Hobbs 2019). Appendix A of this Guide provides higher-level instructions for download and installation of R and RStudio. These are the steps that are performed once per computer. Appendix B of the Guide covers preparation of archaeological data for sampling and implementing ArcGIS Python sampling tools. Appendix C of the Guide catalogs the tools developed for this project and describes their use. The main sections of this document cover executing statistical modeling and predictions in RStudio, exporting the results to ArcGIS, and classifying and evaluating the models. These steps are repeated for each modeling region.