Remote Sensing/Geophysics (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Falicia Gordon. A. Brooke Persons.

In 2010, a tropical storm disturbed human remains and archaeological deposits at the Fort Frederik Archaeological Site, a multicomponent site consisting of dense 18th-19th century midden deposits associated with Fort Frederik, a two-story fortification (est. 1760) dating to the colonial development of St. Croix, then a part of the Danish West Indies. Subsequent investigations, including a geophysical survey, subsurface testing, and osteological analysis, have identified a cemetery within the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elise Jakoby Laugier.

This poster presents results of the Sirwan (Upper Diyala) Regional Project's (Kurdish Region, Iraq) 2017 offsite research in the Kurdish Region of Iraq. Off-site investigations of Mesopotamian landscapes provide evidence of land-use practices and inform our understanding of strategies and structures of past agro-economic systems. Thus, the aim of the 2017 season was to employ multiple remote sensing technologies (including magnetic gradiometry and drone-based imaging) to prospect for and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeffrey Shanks. Dawn Lawrence. Andrew McFeaters.

This is an abstract from the "Seeking Freedom in the Borderlands: Archaeological Perspectives on Maroon Societies in Florida" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 1814, the British began construction of a large fort on a site known as Prospect Bluff on the Apalachicola River. There they trained a corps of Colonial Marines made up primarily of freedom seekers and maroons of African descent who fought in the War of 1812. The heart of the fort was a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alven Miller.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological sites in the American Southwest are known to have indicator plants associated with these sites. At times these plants are used as ‘site indicators’, such as Wolfberry (Lycium pallidum) (Yarnell 1965). In addition, there is an anecdotal belief that archaeological sites in the Southwest can be identified by locating healthy, dense clusters of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carla Klehm. Camille Westmont. Kaitlyn Davis.

This is an abstract from the "Living Landscapes: Disaster, Memory, and Change in Dynamic Environments " session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Remote sensing has been fundamental since the establishment of landscape archaeology, from capturing site layout to aiding in the synthesis of human-environmental relationships. Geospatial technology and its analytical software continue to advance at an accelerated pace and are considered almost integral to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Adam Wiewel. Rebecca Wiewel.

Arzberger is a fifteenth- or sixteenth-century fortified Plains Village site located near present-day Pierre, South Dakota. Although it is an important example of an Initial Coalescent settlement in the Middle Missouri subarea of the Plains, its most intensive study occurred in 1939 when the village was accurately mapped and test excavations were made of four lodges and the fortification. This early work identified a surprisingly low number of houses for such a large settlement. In recent...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Daniel Plekhov. Linda Gosner. Jessica Nowlin.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Many archaeological surveys are conducted in landscapes that are today being actively used for agricultural production. Farming practices, such as plowing, are in fact often essential for exposing and bringing to the surface formerly buried archaeological materials—the study of which allows archaeologists to develop regional-scale assessments of where...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Witt.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster demonstrates recent applications of remotely sensed data to track Chacoan roads in the Middle San Juan Region, specifically the use of high resolution (1 meter) Digital Elevation Models obtained from Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) data and multispectral imagery obtained from the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission Reflectance Radiometer...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Timothy De Smet. Sean Field.

The focus of this research is to demonstrate the efficacy of data processing methodologies of remotely sensed data to detect the Chacoan Great North Road between Pueblo Alto and Pierre’s group. This research highlights a scaled approach to the analysis and processing of remotely sensed data to efficiently identify prehispanic roads. The data analyzed in this project includes: thermal infrared multispectral scanner (TIMS), light detection and ranging (LiDAR), orthoimagery from Google Earth and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Charles Rainville.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Landscape archaeology is fundamentally directed towards understanding the intersection of natural and constructed places, and their reciprocal influence on history. Mounds constructed of earth or shell have been the predominant focus of Southeastern archaeologist for generations. Subsequently, the spaces outside the bounds of mounded places have not been...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jesse Casana.

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. Declassified CORONA spy satellite imagery, collected from 1960-1972, has proven to be a uniquely valuable resource for discovery, mapping, and interpretation of archaeological landscapes. These high-resolution, stereo photographic images preserve a picture of sites and cultural landscape features that have been impacted or destroyed by...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marion Forest. Andrew Somerville.

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. Recent archaeological research in central Mexico has examined the transformations of prehispanic communities during the Epiclassic period (AD 550–850) from the perspective of Teotihuacan’s neighboring settlements and peripheral regions. Less attention, however, has been given to the concomitant...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Daniel Cearley. Andrew Bair. Samuel Connell.

This is an abstract from the "Exploring the Gaelic Social Order through Castle Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Geophysical surveys have become a common feature in archaeological investigations in Ireland and the United Kingdom. The collection of data sets tend to be carried out rapidly and in many cases results can be immediate, however the interpretation of this data is not necessarily consistent nor are the formative processes of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Bret Ruby. Friedrich Lueth. Rainer Komp. Jarrod Burks. Timothy Darvill.

Hopewell Culture National Historical Park preserves six monumental mound and earthwork complexes in south-central Ohio. Archaeological attention in the 19th and 20th centuries remained narrowly focused on mounds and mortuary contexts, ignoring the vast spaces between the monuments. At the same time, agricultural plowing steadily eroded the above-grade features. Recently, the National Park Service forged an international partnership to conduct high-resolution, landscape-scale geomagnetic surveys...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Gilleland. Jennifer Amico. Anna Patchen. Tiffany Raymond. Rebecca Hunt.

The concentric ring features at the Poverty Point World Heritage site are monumental structures a kilometer and a half in diameter at their widest point. Though these impressive structures went unnoticed for many years after the identification of the area’s other archaeological resources, they are now recognized as a unique attribute of an already remarkable site. Here, we use multiple geophysical methods to attempt to characterize the construction of these features. Initially assumed to have...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Whittaker Schroder.

This is an abstract from the "Dynamic Frontiers in the Archaeology of Chiapas" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Maya have inhabited diverse environments in southern Mesoamerica, typified by marked seasonal contrasts between wet and dry periods. Access to water as a resource for agriculture and transportation varied spatially and seasonally for Maya communities, with scholarly and public attention often focusing on the challenges posed by...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hayden Bassett. Christopher P. Chilton. Bruce J. Larson. E. Clay Swindell.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. From the terminal Early to late-Middle Woodland periods (500 BC – AD 500), Native groups living in the central Saginaw Valley of Michigan dramatically shifted subsistence strategies from a reliance on medium to large game, to a focus on aquatic resources. Regional sites illustrate this shift, though from the point of deposition in central domestic spaces,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Levi Keach.

This is an abstract from the "Crucial Issues in United States Department of Defense Cultural Resources Management " session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The United States Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District (USACE) has approximately 850,000 acres of land within its jurisdiction. Much of this land is rich in both historic and prehistoric archaeological resources and located on reservoir shoreline that is subject to erosion. Erosion is exacerbated by...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sean Reid.

Humans have inhabited southern Ghanaian forest for millennia, and nearly everywhere there are traces of human activity in the deep past. This paper discusses my integration of satellite remote sensing with traditional archaeological field methods to study longue durée continuity and transformation in both West African societies and the landscape itself. I am consolidating previous survey data and expanding upon them using several methods of archaeological survey and remote sensing with the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Diane Chase. Arlen Chase.

This is an abstract from the "Regimes of the Ancient Maya" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Interpretations of ancient Maya society may be cast in different ways based on the bodies of data that are used and on the frame of analysis considered. New data and syntheses are changing what sometimes have been polarized perspectives. Excavation, survey, and particularly lidar data show both scalar relationships and regional variability on all levels,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joel Grossman.

This is an abstract from the "The Legacies of Archaeologists in the Andes: Second Symposium, the Institutionalization and Internationalization of Andean Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper reports programmatic recommendations, an advanced seminar series in archaeology, and field tests in geophysics undertaken during a consultancy with the Peruvian Institute of Culture (INC) in October 1982. The invited international program...

DOCUMENT Citation Only William Frazer. James Bourke. Timothy de Smet. Alex Nikulin.

Poverty Point is a UNESCO World Heritage Site known for its monumental earthworks. The largest and most significant feature on the site, Mound A, is over 21 meters high and 200 meters long. Currently, it is believed to have been built in three months at most. This supports the idea that there was a central leader directing its construction, a more socio-politically complex society than previous hunter-gatherer populations in North America. Evidence of stratigraphic layering, however, is an...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ryan Collins.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper explores methodological opportunities for comparative settlement survey by applying ground-penetrating radar (GPR) as an augmentative remote sensing lens. In the last decade, remote sensing in Mesoamerica has undergone a renaissance through the application of Lidar to survey the landscape, providing immense quantities of data on new potential...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katherine Peck. Michael Graves.

This is an abstract from the "Geospatial Studies in the Archaeology of Oceania" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The South Kohala Field System (SKFS), Hawai‘i Island, is a network of contoured and sloping field borders first constructed in the prehistoric period but utilized into the 19th century. Many features are located below the 750 mm rainfall isohyet, the lower boundary for rainfed agriculture in Hawai‘i. In order to sustain agriculture in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Timothy Canaday. Bryan Hanks. Marc Bermann. Rosemary Capo.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Collaboration between the University of Pittsburgh and the Salmon-Challis National Forest has focused on a multi-year campaign of geophysical and geochemical surveys. This work has employed a suite of techniques to develop a better understanding of prehistoric social organization and a comparative spatial study of early village sites along the Salmon River and...