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This is a poster submission presented at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Viewshed analysis is a powerful tool employed by archaeologists to understand the experiences of people in the past. At their core, such analyses estimate what parts of the landscape people could see from specific locations. To do this, these models accept assumptions about similarities between past and present landscapes and statistical complications involved in quantification, such as...
Sight Communities in the American Southwest (2015)
Communities can be conceptualized along a number of dimensions – spatial, demographic, economic, ritual, among others. This study proposes that it may also be productive to consider communities organized around vision. It is well established that people construct mental representations or "cognitive maps" of their surroundings to organize spatial information and experiences and for spatial orientation and navigation. Populations who shared significant portions of their cognitive maps are...