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The history of archaeology is often told as a sequence of prominent individuals and their publications. Due to the focus on big names and big papers, the diversity of archaeological publications is often underestimated. Here we introduce a quantitative method that illuminates historical trends in archaeological writing by investigating a large number of journal articles. We use a Bayesian framework developed for estimating speciation, extinction, and preservation rates from incomplete fossil...
The modern United States of historical archaeology site reporting: A multi-state analysis of reported historical archaeological sites archived in the Digital Index of North American Archaeology. (2015)
It is recognized that certain biases exist in the archaeological recording of historic sites and contexts in comparison to those from prehistory. Typically, these studies deal only with one state or a discrete region of interest due to the legacy limitations of archaeological record keeping in research and cultural resource management settings. This study demonstrates a first step toward providing historical archaeologists with greater insights into the larger effects of the many discrete...
Monitoring At-Risk Archaeological Features Using Phone-Based Lidar at Fort Irwin National Training Center, California (2024)
This is an abstract from the "MARS General Military CRM Poster Session" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 2002, the Installation Archaeologist at Fort Irwin National Training Center began an “Off Limits Monitoring” (OLM) archaeological site monitoring program to assess at-risk sites for disturbances and to provide recommendations on how to reduce risk and protect these sites in the training areas of Fort Irwin. A robust live-fire military training...
Monte Alban’s Main Plaza: New Perspectives Gained Through Geophysical Prospection and Digital Mapping (2018)
Ongoing scholarly debate concerning the function, meaning, and history of Monte Albán’s Main Plaza have important ramifications for our understanding of sociopolitical, economic, and religious life at the Zapotec capital. Although previous investigations have targeted many of the buildings that surround the plaza, none have focused explicitly on the plaza itself. This paper presents the preliminary results of the Proyecto Geofísico de Monte Albán (PGMA), a non-invasive study of the entire Main...
A More Sustainable and Ethical Foundation for CAREfully FAIR Data in Archaeology (2024)
This is an abstract from the "*SE Big Data and Bigger Questions: Papers in Honor of David G. Anderson" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeologists generate vast amounts of data in the form of databases, media files, spreadsheets, GIS files, reports, articles, and other literature. However, despite years of advocacy and data management investments, archaeological information is still poorly curated, scattered, incompatible, and haphazardly...
Moving Beyond Drone Technology: Comparing and Interpreting Architecture and Power at Chalcatzingo, Cuicuilco, and Teotihuacan through Volumetric Measurements Obtained with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (2018)
Drone technology has become widely available, easy to use, and relatively inexpensive over the last four years, and archaeologists have embraced it eagerly. Apart from the technological breakthroughs of the UAV platform and its assortment of sensors, we need to interpret these data beyond the beautiful models and topographic measurements. In this paper, we use the concept of monumentality and compare three iconic sites in Central Mexico to understand how their architectural expression correlates...
Murujuga Dynamics of the Data (2019)
This is an abstract from the "The Art of Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Current archaeological research projects are creating ever-larger quantities of data which needs to be analysed, and stored for long periods. Murujuga: Dynamics of the dreaming has moved to paperless collection techniques to enable the rapid collection of field data and the seamless transfer of this to data repositories. This paper addresses the current standards...
The Museumification of Video Game Artifact Collecting: The Development of Experiences in Archaeological Video Games from Trophy Taking to Decolonizing and Educating (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Digitizing Archaeological Practice: Education and Outreach in the Archaeogaming Subdiscipline" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Collecting objects forms a core game mechanic. Traditionally, critiques have focused on the trivialization of cultural objects. However, I argue that such collections have grown in their educational and informative ability for players. Furthermore, such games are reflexive, informing the...
Museums As Classrooms: Lessons in Applied Collaborative Digital Heritage (2018)
Tech-centred courses in archaeology are becoming evermore present in university and college training programs, as demands for digital field recording, data management and analysis, and public engagement applications increase. Traditional classrooms and labs may be conducive to methodological training, however experiencing the complicated ethics, politics and logistics of applying these methods to heritage practice is limited in these settings. This paper reflects on a collaborative project that...
NASA's Contributions to Remote Sensing in Archaeology (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. For more than four decades, NASA has played an outsized role in advancing the use of satellite imagery for archaeological applications. Starting in the 1980s, NASA archaeologist Dr. Tom Sever organized the first conference on archaeological applications of remote sensing, infusing NASA Earth Observations into cutting-edge archaeological research being...
Negotiating Complexity in the Management of Sensitive Digital Data (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Openness & Sensitivity: Practical Concerns in Taking Archaeological Data Online" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Appropriate stewardship of sensitive archeological data necessarily involves overlapping and intertwined authorities, systems, and institutions. The authorities, in turn have different limits and requirements, while various entities have divergent purposes, needs, and protocols. Archeologists, librarians,...
The Negotiation of Status: New Insights into a Late Classic Household at Las Ruinas de Arenal, Belize (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. There has been a long history of settlement and household archaeology in the Belize River valley that has added significantly to our understanding of everyday people in the Maya lowlands. This research has allowed us to examine questions related to broader cultural norms and traditions, as well as better understand the distribution of settlement across the...
Networking: digital archaeology repositories in Argentina (2017)
The digitization of primary data in social sciences and humanities, including archeology, has been a central issue in the management of science in Argentina by federal agencies, public universities and private foundations. About this topic, Argentina´s National Research Council (CONICET) created the Interactive Platform for Social Science Research, an interdisciplinary space, that over six years has generated protocols related to digitization and ways to share these results under the concept of...
Networks, Community Detection, and Critical Scales of Interaction in the U.S. Southwest/Mexican Northwest (2021)
This is an abstract from the "People and Space: Defining Communities and Neighborhoods with Social Network Analysis" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeologists have long recognized that spatial relationships are an important influence on and driver of all manner of social processes at scales from the local to the continental or even beyond. Recent research in the realm of complex networks focused on community detection in human networks...
New Insights from Archaeology into Life in Space: The Sampling Quadrangle Assemblages Research Experiment (SQuARE) on the International Space Station (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. From January to March 2022, astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) carried out the first documentation of in situ material culture from a space habitat. Since then, we have identified and marked the locations of thousands of artifacts in the 358 photographs made by the crew in six sample locations across the ISS. At the 2023 SAA Meetings,...
New Media, Old Stories: Democratizing Archaeology with Open Source Methods in Virtual Heritage Management at Northern Rio Grande Pueblos (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Digitizing Archaeological Practice: Education and Outreach in the Archaeogaming Subdiscipline" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Covering 50 square miles of tablelands in northern New Mexico, Mesa Prieta (Black Mesa, Mesa Canoa) is an exceptional petroglyph landscape with remarkable historical and cultural significance. As a core part of its mission, the nonprofit Mesa Prieta Petroglyph Project’s (MP3) has long partnered...
A New Methodology for Archaeological Investigation of Human Activity in Space: The International Space Station Archaeological Project (2018)
Our project is the first major archaeological study of a space habitat: the International Space Station. It is a locus of intercultural interaction at the level of both individuals and states, "a microsociety in a miniworld" (National Academy of Sciences 1972). Remoteness and cost are obstacles to employing traditional archaeological techniques in Earth orbit, so we are developing new methodologies. Chief among these is the use of the millions of images generated by space agencies showing life...
New Perspectives on Gulf Coast Olmec Iconography and Scripts via the Mesoamerican Corpus of Formative Period Art and Writing (2016)
The rich visual culture of the Formative period Gulf Coast Olmec has long been recognized as playing a foundational role in the origins and development of subsequent Mesoamerican writing systems and artistic traditions. Nonetheless, Formative period visual cultures remain relatively understudied, as does their role in and impact on the emergence of regional script systems, the developmental dynamics of which continue to elude adequate explanation. To advance the field’s understanding of script...
New Perspectives on Warfare in the Iron Age of Wessex (2018)
Wessex, a region of southern England, has been the subject of more study than almost any other region of the UK. While much excavation has focused on the Iron Age little work has focused on the role of warfare at that time. Discussions of warfare have led to antithetical conclusions by researchers utilizing the same material with much of the disagreement stemming from fundamentally different interpretations of equivocal evidence and assumptions about life in the period. Some of this is...
Not Going There: Seeing, Depicting and Interpreting Archaeological Topography through Digital Media (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Archaeological Vision in the Age of Big Data" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper explores a tension in field practice and interpretation in landscape archaeology. Digital 3D topographic data have proliferated, and the increasing availability of lidar DTMs are transforming the practice of archaeological topographic interpretation. As a toolkit for interpretation tailored to this digital medium is being...
Not Only an Archaeological Rescue: Canal de Ohtenco, Case Study of Iztacalco’s Agricultural System (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. "Chinampas" typically are associated with Xochimilco’s agricultural system. However, recent work by INAH’s ‘Dirección de Salvamentos Arqueológicos’ was undertaken at Iztacalco due to modern population growth. Iztacalco is 15 km from Xochimilco but no information existed about the preHispanic population or the site’s economic activities. Therefore, this...
Online Cultural and Historical Research Environment: Flexibility versus Standardization (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this first season of excavations by the Corral Redondo project in southern Peru, a database was needed to capture excavation, conservation, and survey data in the field and later respond to the reporting standards set by the Peruvian government. The Online Cultural and Historical Research Environment (OCHRE) proved to be a powerful tool for this data...
Online Data Curation: CAVEBase, ArchaeoSTOR, University Libraries and Long-Term Digital Archiving (2018)
Although new technologies have made it possible to document historical and archaeological sites in greater detail than ever before, and have made it faster and easier to disseminate information, they have also brought about new challenges, especially in connection to long term data preservation. As the quantity of information stored digitally continues to grow it becomes increasingly important to actively curate the information now, for present and future reuse. Not only does data need to be...
Online Digital Pedagogy and the Database of Religious History (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, scholars in the fields of archaeology and history have come to appreciate the potential of digital tools for transforming how we excavate, organize data, and share it with the world. As these various approaches become more integral to these disciplines, instructors have also been working on improving the digital literacy of their students....
Online Education on African Archaeology and Heritage: The ONLAAH Platform (2021)
This is an abstract from the "Archaeology in Mozambique: Current Issues and Topics in Archaeology and Heritage Management" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Onlaah platform is formed by a consortium of institutions and partners, from Africa and around the world, such as the German Archaeological Institute (DAI), the University of Namibia (UNAM), the University Eduardo Mondlane (Angola), the ICArEHB (Algarve University, Portugal), the Autonoma...