Figure 3

Maysan province test area (pink, dashed line) with sites remotely identified by archaeologists (blue, dot-filled) and model predictions (yellow, line-filled). The sites identified by the trained eye and the model are equivalent and, most importantly, the model is able to ignore areas without significant features. All the displayed data fall under the condition of fair use utilization of geographical data for academic purposes. The list of all relevant data/software provider(s) is as follows: (i) original maps creation under the Section 5 of Microsoft Bing Maps Platform APIs’ terms of use (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/maps/product/print-rights); (ii) maps display achieved with an open source software, under the GNU licenses of QGIS (https://qgis.org/en/site/) and QuickMapsServices (https://github.com/nextgis/quickmapservices); (iii) final maps elaboration achieved with a software developed by the authors and available at (https://bit.ly/NSR_floodplains).