Manual and example application to model ‘Core-Areas’ (Optimally Describing Isolines) using MapInfo & Vertical Mapper README.md CologneProtocol-MapInfo Research compendium for "Approaching Prehistoric Demography: Proxies, Scales and Scope of the Cologne Protocol in European contexts" Compendium DOI: DOI will be created by figshare upon final publication
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Authors of this repository: Karl Peter Wendt (karl-peter-wendt@t-online.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: Manual_S01_ODI_MapInfo.pdf.
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 MapInfo 8.5 and Vertical Mapper 3.5 and the choose of the optimal describing Isoline in MS-Excel.
How to use It is recommended to read the publication and supplement (Schmidt et al. 2020) first and then to start with the example application described in the Manual_S01_ODI_MapInfo.pdf.
Other resources There are other manuals and recourses to fulfill the first two parts of the Cologne Protocol (manuals for R, QGIS, MapInfo and ArcGIS). Please see the above mentionesd publication for more information.
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Program Versions required: The scripts were developed using MapInfo 8.5, Vertical Mapper 3.5 and MS-Excel 2013.