My review of the archaeological literature resulted in two testable equations that express a hypothesized quantitative relationship between environmental settings and prehistoric sites. Permanent water, land form, and intermittent water are general environmental settings that are most strongly associated with archaeological sites. Both testable equations are based on past projects performed by widely-spaced transects and non-probabilistic sampling methods. Testing the locational equations with rigorously controlled data is the next step in the predictive modeling strategy. Compliance and scientific limitations of my approach are also presented herein. The approach can be used by land management agencies as a planning tool, especially when combined with GIS and GPS formatted data.
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