@article {9886,
	title = {Quantifying Landscape Diversity and Uniqueness in the Prairie Ecozone},
	journal = {Canadian Journal of Archaeology/Journal canadien d{\textquoteright}arch{\'e}ologie},
	volume = {31},
	year = {2007},
	pages = {251-270},
	abstract = {<p>SCAPE is an interdisciplinary research project examining human-environmental interactions of precontact groups in localities exhibiting exceptional physiographic and ecological diversity. While overall ecological diversity has been used to explain the patterns of intense occupation exhibited in these areas, there has been no formal investigation comparing the relative diversity and uniqueness of these landscapes or relative intensity of occupation occurring in these areas with adjacent environments across the Prairie ecozone. This paper presents a GIS-based methodology for quantitatively assessing the diversity and uniqueness of landscapes based on the analysis of geoindicators and the relationship between ecologically diverse and unique landscapes and the occurrence of archaeological sites. Results of these analyses indicate that at least one of the four SCAPE study areas exhibits exceptionally high diversity and uniqueness and that, overall, landscapes scoring in the highest category for combined diversity and uniqueness have significantly higher than expected frequencies of archaeological sites.</p>},
	author = {Dion Wiseman and James Graham}
}
