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Criteria for selecting the appropriate combination of sensors when searching for cultural features within anarchaeological site are poorly developed and sorely needed for the economic application of remote sensing inarchaeology. The Hollywood Mounds, a late prehistoric ceremonial center in the lower Mississippi alluvial valley of the southeastern United State, has been the subject of a large number of remote sensing experiments using a widevariety of both digital airborne and geophysical sensors. In addition, two seasons of ground truth excavations havebeen carried out at the site. Multivariate statistical analyses, beginning with a map of the known locations of house and mound remnants, allow us to derive quantitative measures of the relative value of the various instruments in thisspecific but fairly typical context. Keywords: archaeology, data fusion, remote sensing, geophysics, Mississippian archaeology, discriminant function analysis |
