الملخص الإنجليزي
This paper examines 2830 km2 of north central Oman with the purpose of developing a predictive model for the most likely areas to contain settlements of the Early Bronze Age Hafit period. The model is developed on the basis of the distribution of tombs, as detected by remote sensing, as well as general properties of the landscape. The model is able to narrow down the most likely areas for finding Hafit settlements to only 6.5% of the total. As such, it is a tool for directing further fieldwork, and to better understand the archaeological landscape of the period. This is important as very few settlements are hitherto located in the entire region. Predictive models can also be a strong tool in the management of archaeological heritage, giving other users early warning of the presence of archaeology in their own planning.
