ABSTRACT
Over the past ten years, archaeological predictive modeling in the Netherlands has been the subject of a sometimes-heated debate (see Verhagen et al. 2000). After seminal publications by Wansleeben (1988), Ankum and Groenewoudt (1990), and Soonius and Ankum (1990), a number of predictive maps have been produced by public archaeological institutions in the Netherlands (RAAP1 and ROB2). At the same time, academic archaeologists have studied the methodological and theoretical aspects of
predictive modeling, and some have criticized the modeling concepts used in public archaeology in several publications (Wansleeben and Verhart 1997; van Leusen 1993, 1995, 1996; Kamermans and Rensink 1999).
