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Abstract
The region of Saoura, bounding in heritage and archaeological potential of national and universal importance. The paper’s major goal is to contribute to the literature by providing a hybrid method of GIS-GeoTOPSIS-AHP for archaeology prediction. The results indicate that 48.48% of the Ksours are located in areas that had very high potential and 42.42% are located in high potentiality areas and representing 0.16% and 1.25% of the total area. The model’s ability to predict site locations with reasonable accuracy is expressed by the model gain, which is equal to 98%, it is considered a strong predictive model.
期刊介绍:
Archaeologies: Journal of the World Archaeological Congress offers a venue for debates and topical issues, through peer-reviewed articles, reports and reviews. It emphasizes contributions that seek to recenter (or decenter) archaeology, and that challenge local and global power geometries.
Areas of interest include ethics and archaeology; public archaeology; legacies of colonialism and nationalism within the discipline; the interplay of local and global archaeological traditions; theory and archaeology; the discipline’s involvement in projects of memory, identity, and restitution; and rights and ethics relating to cultural property, issues of acquisition, custodianship, conservation, and display.
Recognizing the importance of non-Western epistemologies and intellectual traditions, the journal publishes some material in nonstandard format, including dialogues; annotated photographic essays; transcripts of public events; and statements from elders, custodians, descent groups and individuals.