Research compendium for "Approaching Prehistoric Demography: Proxies, Scales and Scope of the Cologne Protocol in European contexts"

Compendium DOI:

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Authors of this repository:

Oliver Vogels (oliver.vogels@uni-koeln.de)

Published in:

Schmidt, I., Hilpert, J., Kretschmer, I., Peters, R., Broich, M., Schiesberg, S., Vogels, O., Wendt, K. P., Zimmermann, A., Maier, A., submitted. Approaching Prehistoric Demography: Proxies, Scales and Scope of the Cologne Protocol in European contexts. Philosophical Transactions B.

Contents:

• A Tutorial for running the Cologne Protocol in ArcGIS 10.X as PDF file
• An ArcGIS Toolbox for an automated export of LEC Contour lines to polygons (ArcGIS < 10.6)

Overview:

The Cologne Protocol is a geostatistical approach for estimating prehistoric population size and density.
This repository contains a manual on how to model Core Areas with ArcGIS 10.X. This modelling approach constitutes the first of two successive tasks within the Cologne Protocol to estimate past population sizes and densities, described in more detail elsewhere (Schmidt et al. 2020: S2.1. and S2.2.).

CGN_Protocol_ArcGIS_Manual.pdf outlines the technical implementation of working steps 1 to 11 (see Schmidt et al. 2020: Table S2). Please read the publication and supplement (Schmidt et al. 2020) beforehand. Writing an ArcGIS toolbox for the entire process has been avoided since setting up the kriging parameters should be done via visual inspection. the best option for this is using the Geostatistical Wizard in case you have the extension Geostatistical Analyist installed and running.

How to use

• Please read the publication and supplement (Schmidt et al. 2020) first and then to start with the example application described in CGN_Protocol_ArcGIS_Manual.pdf.

Other resources

Other manuals and resources exist to run the first two parts of the Cologne Protocol. The above mentioned publications is not only accompanied by an ArcGIS manual but also by manuals for QGIS, MapInfo and R. Please see the publication for more information.

Licence:

Code: MIT (http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT) year: 2020, copyright holder: Oliver Vogels

Program Versions required:

The scripts were tested with ArcGIS 10.1 to ArcGIS 10.7