SBC Predictive Model

Data and code used for the development of an ethnoarchaeological inductive predictive model 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). 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. The model creation and output is discussed in: CROCE, E., CARRER, F. & ANGELUCCI, D.E., 2025, Ethnoarchaeological Inductive Predictive Model: A Field Test in the Italian Alps, Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 32, 43. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-025-09712-w The inductive predictive model was originally created as part of a PhD Thesis: CROCE E., 2022, Archeologia d'alta quota alle sorgenti del Brembo, PhD Thesis, A.A. 2020/2021, Università di Trento. https://dx.doi.org/10.15168/11572_350299 The methodology is based upon the previous work of F. Carrer (which co-authored also the present model): CARRER F., 2013, 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), Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 32, pp. 54-62. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2012.10.001