SPATIO-TEMPORAL MODELLING AS A WAY TO RECONSTRUCT PATTERNS OF PAST HUMAN ACTIVITIES

摘要

This paper examines the possibilities of creating quantified models of past human activities in both time and space. The study area lies in the south-eastern Czech Republic and western Slovakia. The spatio-temporal model of behavioural categories was calculated with the help of Monte Carlo simulations and statistical testing. One of the main advantages of our approach is that it admits the probabilistic nature of input data, quantifies them and provides probabilistic results comparable with other proxies. It also presents a less biased way of how archaeological data from regions and periods with low numbers of C-14 datings can be incorporated into models of past population dynamics.