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In the battle to preserve vulnerable historic maritime resources, recovery efforts after the unprecedented devastation of Superstorm Sandy highlighted a desperate need to locate, identify, and catalog the submerged resources of New Jersey. Today, resiliency undertakings, new development projects, plans to address rising sea levels and severe storms, have all encountered maritime archaeological resources. With over 1,600 known historic shipwrecks crowding only 150 miles of Atlantic coastline, and...
The Geophysical Investigations at the Tzib Group in Pacbitun, Belize (2016)
The archaeological site of Pacbitun is one of the ancient sites that was inhabited by the Maya for approximately two thousand years. It is located in the west central side of Belize, near the town of San Antonio. Exploration of the surveyed areas revealed a smaller archaeological site in 2011 known as the Tzib Group, also known as “Mano Mound” due to the significant amounts of mano fragments found on the surface. In the 2014 summer season, geophysical data was collected using an instrument...
GIS Let Me See It: Building More Robust Models of Past Movement with Geospatial Modeling (2016)
Geospatial technologies allow archaeologists to study past social processes at a spatial scale previously unimaginable. Here, I ask how we may realize more fully the potential created by this fact, namely that these tools let us ask questions we have never asked, nor could think of asking, before we had access to them. I explore this by focusing on one area of study with a notable amount of untapped potential: movement. Archaeologists recover material items which show people moved themselves,...
Landscape Modelling and Geospatial Analysis of Fort Mose Environs (2022)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Fort Mose Above and Below: Terrestrial and Underwater Excavations at the Earliest Free Afro-Diasporic Settlement in the United States" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The site of Fort Mose has a complex history involving multiple occupations by different groups between 1738 and 1812. Other earthwork and wooden installations were also constructed in the area during these 75 years, most of which have not yet...
The San Lorenzo Geospatial Project: Mapping the Olmec City and Landscape (2016)
For the past decade, we have applied a series of nested geospatial techniques to better understand the development and evolution of the Olmec city of San Lorenzo and the surrounding regional landscape. Built on a foundation of more than two decades of traditional archaeological excavation, settlement survey and artifact analysis, the geospatial project expands the coverage and confirms much of what is known about San Lorenzo’s evolution and settlement ecology. The project also provides...
Using Geospatial Strategies and Ground-Penetrating Radar to Study Sites in the American Southwest (2015)
In American archaeology, ground-penetrating radar (GPR) has enjoyed its longest use in the Southwest. While this method has long been used to locate features of archaeological interest, much of the focus has now shifted from using this technique as a prospection tool to one that can be used directly in the study of archaeological sites. This reflects an increasing sophistication in the ways practitioners process, interpret, and visualize GPR data, which capitalizes on this method's...