From Site Catchment Analysis to Regional Settlement Pattern Analysis: Making a Regional Map of Environmental Resources’ Potential. The Case of Arid Syria
Résumé
The last decades have seen an increasing refinement in site catchment analysis, envi- ronmental and landscape studies in Near Eastern archaeology. To compare trends and dynamics in several regions, we propose methods for good representations at a macro- regional scale of a synthesis of known environmental conditions and constraints identified at a micro-regional scale.