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Archaeology

modeling the easiest routes across terrain by computing accumulated travel cost, to study past movement.

In archaeology, least-cost path analysis refers to modeling the easiest routes across terrain by computing accumulated travel cost, to study past movement. This meaning comes from White and Surface-Evans (2012) in Least cost analysis of social landscapes.[1]

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References

White, D. A., & Surface-Evans, S. L. (Eds.). (2012). Least cost analysis of social landscapes: Archaeological case studies. University of Utah Press. ISBN 9781607811718

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