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Letter Report: US 54 North City Limits of El Paso to Texas / New Mexico Boundary, El Paso County, Texas (1975)
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Letter Report: US 54: from the North City Limits of El Paso to the Texas-New Mexico State Line, Cultural Resources Assessment, El Paso County (1981)
This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us at comments@tdar.org.
Let’s Shed Some Light: Computed Tomography and GIS in Bioarchaeological Analysis of Funerary Urns from Los Tamarindos Cemetery, Tierra Caliente, Michoacán (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Looking to the West: New insights into Postclassic Archaeology in Michoacán" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Spatial distribution and relations between the osteological material and grave and/or pyre goods within cremation funerary urns are crucial aspects of the bioarchaeological analysis of cremation burials. Through meticulous examination of material distribution, valuable insights can be gleaned regarding the...
Let’s Talk about a NAGPRA Community of Practice (2021)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As we reflect on the 30th anniversary of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990 (NAGPRA), practitioners recognize the progress that has been made and acknowledge the vast amount of work left to be done. In order to meet that challenge, we need to increase capacity for NAGPRA implementation, improve overall engagement with ongoing...
Levantamiento de nube de puntos aplicado a contextos paleontológicos (2021)
This is an abstract from the "Aproximaciones arqueológicas y paleontológicas en Santa Lucía, México" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. En el marco del proyecto de salvamento arqueológico del nuevo aeropuerto Santa Lucia, México se han descubierto una gran cantidad de restos paleontológicos del pleistoceno tardío entre los cuales destaca la presencia del mamut columbi. Este descubrimiento nos otorga un nuevo panorama sobre el paleoambiente durante el...
Level Forms Terrace O8 (2015)
This pdf file contains all of the level forms for Terrace O8, which were excavated in January of 2015.
Level Forms Terrace S19 (2010)
This .pdf file contains all of the level forms for the excavations conducted on Terrace S19, on Cerro Danush in Oaxaca, Mexico. Excavations took place between August and November of 2009. The first two pages show the grid system and the level forms are organized by northing and easting. Please see the project report for 2010 for more information.
Level Forms Terrace S25 (2015)
This .pdf file contains the level forms for the 2m x 2m units excavated on Terrace S25 of Cerro Danush in Oaxaca Mexico. This fieldwork was conducted between January of 2015 and June of 2015. The first page contains the grid system used to determine the unit northing and easting. For more information, please see the Project Report for 2015.
Leveraging Power: Stonecarvers and Architectural Sculpture Production in the Copan Region (2017)
The abundance and diversity of monumental art, architecture and hieroglyphic texts at sites outside the Principal Group in the Copan Valley, and into the hinterlands, illuminate the timing and intent of regal investiture of authority in elites considered important to the stability of the kingdom. The consistent use of two imagery programs in architecture, and the linking of one of those programs with textual confirmation of membership in the royal court, reveal two strategies for leveraging the...
Lidar and DepthmapX: Spatial Analysis of the Archaeological Site Malpaís de Tacámbaro, La Garita Sector (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Looking to the West: New insights into Postclassic Archaeology in Michoacán" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the municipality of Tacámbaro, Michoacán, is located the archaeological site Malpaís de Tacámbaro, La Garita sector. It is an arm of lava spill where the presence of prehispanic structures that seem to be part of the first urban centers of the Middle Postclassic (AD 1200–1350) stands out. According to the...
Lidar as a Tool to Estimate Late Classic Population in the Central Maya Lowlands (2021)
This is an abstract from the "Ancient Mesoamerican Population History: Demography, Social Complexity, and Change" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 2016, the Pacunam Lidar Initiative surveyed 2,100 km2 of the Maya Biosphere Reserve in the Department of Petén, Guatemala. This lidar survey provided an unprecedented scale of settlement data that attest to elevated population levels throughout the southern Maya lowlands, especially for the Late...
Lidar Mapping of a Zapotec City: Cultural Hybridity and Ethnogenesis in Postclassic Guiengola, Oaxaca (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Checking the Pulse: Current Research in Oaxaca Part I" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this paper, I will discuss how Zapotecs both continued and innovated the construction traditions from the central valleys of Oaxaca in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec by showing the results of the analysis of the lidar scan made during the 2022–2023 field season of the Guiengola Archaeological Project. The archaeological site of...
Lidar Reconnaissance of the Calakmul Urban Landscape (2023)
This is an abstract from the "A Session in Memory of William J. Folan: Cities, Settlement, and Climate" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Building on the work of William J. Folan, the Bajo Laberinto Archaeological Project, initiated in 2022, is focused on investigations of urbanism centered on the city of Calakmul in southern Campeche. An initial 100 km2 lidar survey along the northern rim of the Bajo Laberinto has revealed large, elaborate...
Lidar Vegetation Analysis and Ground Truthing Efficacy at the Maya Archaeological Site of El Palmar, Mexico (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. An essential component of analyzing lidar data is adapting them to the researcher’s specific environmental situation, including the effects of local vegetation types on the identification of archaeological features. Doing so, can refine estimates of existing structures in non-surveyed areas and inform improved ground survey strategies in the future. At the...
Lidar, Architecture, and Petroglyphs: Urban Analysis of the Vapatzequa San Pablo, Tzintzuntzan (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Tzintzuntzan, Capital of the Tarascan Empire: New Perspectives" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this poster we will present the data derived from systematic surface prospections within one of these vapatzaquas, the neighborhood of San Pablo, Tzintzuntzan, which is one of the most important in the city, since inside it is located the Great Platform with the five yácatas, as well as another of the largest platforms of...
LiDAR-aided ground survey in the Puuc Hills, Yucatan, Mexico (2017)
A 2013 NASA LiDAR mission passed over the eastern extreme of the region being investigated by the Bolonchen Regional Archaeological Project (BRAP), in the process partially imaging the secondary site of Acambalam II/III. A substantial portion of the site was ground-checked during the summer of 2016. This paper discusses post-collection LiDAR processing and the possibilities for feature detection and landscape use revealed by ground truthing. The data also provide interesting demographic...
Lidar-Based aboveground Biomass Estimations for the Maya Archaeological Site of Yaxnohcah, Campeche, Mexico (2024)
This is an abstract from the "New and Emerging Perspectives on the Bajo el Laberinto Region of the Maya Lowlands, Part 1" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This study introduces a method for estimating aboveground biomass (AGB) in contemporary tropical forests near archaeological sites using lidar technology. Accurate AGB estimates are crucial for assessing wood resources available to the ancient Maya for city development. We propose a lidar...
Lidar: Guided Archaeological Surveys in the Hinterlands of Northwestern Belize (2021)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the last decade airborne mapping lidar has become an extremely valuable tool for archaeologists studying ancient settlement patterns. It has proven especially useful in regions covered by dense forests on which prospection with other remote sensing techniques is not possible. This paper contributes to the growing international dialogue regarding the use of...
Lies the Spaniards Told (2019)
This is an abstract from the "After Cortés: Archaeological Legacies of the European Invasion in Mesoamerica" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Spaniards characterized the northeast corner of Yucatán state as being demographically depleted and possessed of unhealthy terrain and a lack of exploitable minerals. This picture has been perpetuated by historians, who lack independent lines of evidence against which to check it. Yet archaeological...
Life after Teotihuacan: Everyday Practices and Community Formation at Chicoloapan, Mexico (2021)
This is an abstract from the "Central Mexico after Teotihuacan: Everyday Life and the (Re)Making of Epiclassic Communities" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Epiclassic period (550–850 CE) in central Mexico is widely viewed by archaeologists as a time of instability, violent conflict, and large-scale migration. The collapse of Teotihuacan left a fractious and decentralized sociopolitical landscape in its wake—a situation that contrasted starkly...
Life after Urbanism: Investigating Classic Period Cities and Settlements in the Mixteca Alta, Oaxaca (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Checking the Pulse II, Current Research in Oaxaca Part 1" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Those of us working in the Mixteca Alta region of Oaxaca have heard the saying that the “Classic period” in the region took place earlier, in the Late Preclassic. While the Classic period (AD 300-800) was a time of urban florescence in the Valley of Oaxaca, Basin of Mexico, Puebla, and the Mixteca Baja regions, investigations into...
Life and death in the southeastern Maya periphery: Bioarchaeological and isotopic analysis of the Uxbenká burial population (2017)
The southern Belize region is typically considered geographically and culturally peripheral to the primary activity areas of the ancient Maya. Although researchers have documented the development of a "southern Belize style" in terms of architecture and material culture, to date very little systematic work has been undertaken to understand health, diet, and mortuary behavior in the region. Ten years of excavations at Uxbenká have yielded rich evidence of a continuous occupation spanning from the...
Life and Death of a Middle Preclassic Individual from Aguada Fénix, Tabasco (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Aguada Fénix and the Middle Usumacinta Region: Interregional Interactions and Social Transformations in the Middle Preclassic Period" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. We explore a Middle Preclassic skeleton from the site of Aguada Fénix, Tabasco. It is one of the scarce cases of the early temporality in the Maya area. We first describe in detail its archaeological context and osteological sex and age-at-death and infer...
Life and Death of Lakam Elites at the Maya Center of El Palmar, Campeche, Mexico (2018)
During the Late Classic period (A.D. 600-800), Maya non-royal elites frequently appeared in courtly scenes, which are depicted on polychrome vessels and carved monuments. While epigraphic studies over the last two decades have gradually shed light on their political and ritual roles, little is known about their life histories and mortuary practices. One group of these elites held the title of lakam, which has been reported only at three archaeological sites. We detected tangible evidence of...