Digital Archaeology: 3D Modeling (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ted Parsons.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. 3D modeling is an integral part of many archaeology projects. Photo-based 3D modeling using Structure from Motion and Multiview Stereo (SfM/MVS) algorithms is widely used. SfM/MVS requires minimal field gear and can produce very high-quality output: Agisoft’s PhotoScan Professional® is the most popular commercial implementation of SfM/MVS. Adequate...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Timothy Pugh.

The site of Nixtun-Ch’ich’ in Petén, Guatemala is the only known lowland Maya site with an urban grid. Such grids are composed of perpendicular streets forming quadrilateral city blocks. They are common elements of city planning as they increase the legibility of city space and the interconnectivity of occupants. The urban grid at Nixtun-Ch’ich’ is the earliest known in the Americas (ca. 800-500 BCE) and was built when social complexity was emerging in the Maya region. Like many Preclassic...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sean Farrell.

This paper reports the results of new excavations of Late Pleistocene deposits at Bonfire Shelter, a stratified rockshelter in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands of Val Verde County, Texas. Previous excavations identified three bone deposits. Bone Bed 1, the oldest deposit, yielded a single uncalibrated radiocarbon date of 12,460 +/- 490 BP. Investigators in the 1960s and 1980s argued that the patterned distribution of megafaunal elements associated with large limestone cobbles in Bone Bed 1 suggests...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nelly Robles García. Saburo Sugiyama. Yuma Takada. Damián Martínez. Miguel Ángel Galván.

This is an abstract from the "Ancient Landscapes and Cosmic Cities out of Eurasia: Transdisciplinary Studies with New Lidar Mapping" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Monte Albán, the central mountain area in the Oaxaca Valley was largely modified around 500 BC and functioned as a ceremonial precinct and state headquarters for more than 1,300 years. As one of the objectives under the umbrella program of “Out of Eurasia,” we here explore the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kayeleigh Sharp.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Gallinazo sociopolitical organization is rarely considered outside the Virú Valley heartland. My recent work in the Lambayeque region of northern coastal Peru brings to light several anomalies that force reevaluation of long-standing ideas. Today, there are several persistent yet mistaken observations that continue to skew the perception of prehispanic Andean...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sandra Viskanta Khokhriakova. Alexandre Tokovinine. Dmitri Beliaev. Sandra Balanzario.

This is an abstract from the "New Light on Dzibanché and on the Rise of the Snake Kingdom’s Hegemony in the Maya Lowlands" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper presents some preliminary results of the first field season of 3D documentation of buildings, monuments, and portable artifacts from the archaeological site of Dzibanché in Quintana Roo, Mexico. Four building facades, 20 stairway blocks, nine miscellaneous sculpture fragments, and six...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jared Katz.

Over the past several years, the Maya Music Project has documented over 430 ancient Maya musical instruments. In addition to photographing all of the instruments, over 160 musical artifacts have been 3D scanned, and audio recordings were made of many of the artifacts. This paper will focus on the typological analysis of instruments based not only on their stylistic and technological attributes, but also on the tones the instruments are able to produce, as it is clear the artisans who created...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kazuhiro Sekiguchi. Yoshitaka Hojo.

This is an abstract from the "Ancient Landscapes and Cosmic Cities out of Eurasia: Transdisciplinary Studies with New Lidar Mapping" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Tsukuriyama Kofun in Okayama is a massive burial mound from the fifth century that spans over 350 m and ranks third-largest in Japan. The Okayama University team used lidar to survey the mound and integrated the data into arcAstroVR, a visualization software for archaeological...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Shott. Erik R. Otárola-Castillo.

Points were designed for use but also for repair or rejuvenation. Points accumulated in the archaeological record at stages from first use to extensively resharpened. Thus, specimens of a single type could enter the record in a range of sizes and shapes. Resharpening allometry has been documented in many studies, including geometric-morphometric (GM) ones. One hypothesis is that flintknappers designed points as separate "modules" to accommodate their overall function. This hypothesis views the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mara Horowitz.

The small (1 hectare) site of Phlamoudhi-Vounari was built in Late Cypriot IA:1 and abandoned early in Late Cypriot IIA, a lifespan of c. 200 years. This paper presents a 3D model and spatial analysis suggesting that the site functioned as a stage during community gatherings (and greeting visitors). Vounari’s plan is unique on Cyprus: a likely man-made, eight-meter-high mound topped with a sequence of superimposed structures. Initially built with open access to the summit from the higher south...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christine Markussen. Ian Hough. Blayne Brown.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the fall of 2017, EnviroSystems Management, Inc. conducted architectural mapping of three sites at Wupatki National Monument, part of Flagstaff Area National Monuments, Coconino County, Arizona. The Monument required scaled planimetric drawings and cross-sections of standing architecture at WS323/Small Tower, WS1027/Cloud House, and WS1762/Coyote Water....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eric Heller. Benjamin Bellorado.

This is an abstract from the "Transcending Modern Boundaries: Recent Investigations of Cultural Landscapes in Southeastern Utah" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent technological advances, including photogrammetric capture and virtual reality visualization, offer exciting new means to document, analyze, and reconceptualize archaeological landscapes. Minimally invasive, cost effective, and extremely precise, these methods and technologies provide...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rosa María Varillas.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Puerto Inka, also known as Quebrada de la Vaca, which lies on the Pacific shore in southern Peru, near the modern town of Chala, was connected to the Inka capital of Cuzco (over 800 km away) by the Royal Inca Road network, now known as the Qhapaq Ñan. Because of its preservation, its distinct administrative structures, its unique geographic position, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ellie Minette.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. With the increasing accessibility of digital technologies, photogrammetry and digital modeling have grown in popularity and applicability as archaeological tools. Recently, archaeologists have used digital models of sites and artifacts for various teaching and research purposes, with specific emphasis on 3D-printed replicas and augmented-reality content....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Laura Recklies. Loren Davis. Daniel Bean. Alexander Nyers.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Caches of stone tools offer unique opportunities to study lithic technology crafting at extremely short temporal scales. We created digital 3D models of 378 obsidian bifaces from a cache located in central Oregon (35DS751) and submitted them for x-ray fluorescence and geometric lithic morphometric research (GLiMR) analyses. The raw materials from this...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Evalyn Stow. Desiree Clark. Jacob Harris. Curtis Marean. Erik Otarola-Castillo.

This is an abstract from the "Novel Statistical Techniques in Archaeology II (QUANTARCH II)" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Toward the end of the Pleistocene, North America experienced a mass extinction of large mammals, including Proboscideans such as mammoths and mastodons. The role of human predation in these extinctions is widely debated across several scientific disciplines, including Conservation Biology, Paleontology, and Archaeology. A...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Trevor Keevil. Melissa Torquato. Sarah Coon. Jacob Harris. Erik Otárola-Castillo.

This is an abstract from the "Geometric Morphometrics in Archaeology" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. At the end of the Pleistocene, North America experienced a mass extinction of megafauna, including proboscideans—mammoths and mastodons. Archaeologists and other scientists continue to debate the role of human predation in these extinctions. Some point to traces of human butchery, such as cut marks and other bone surface modifications (BSM), as...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kevin Austin. Benjamin Baaske. Robert Warden.

This is an abstract from the "Ancient Maya Landscapes in Northwestern Belize, Part II" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Maya architecture at Xno’ha has been recorded digitally every field season since 2012 by the Blue Creek Archaeological Project in conjunction with the Center for Heritage Conservation at Texas A&M University. Through the application of preservation technologies such as laser scanning, it is now possible to juxtapose completely...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ted Parsons.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster examines the development of new, highly portable, entries into the short-range (~5m) scanning arena use LiDAR sensors in recent iPhones and iPads and how they impact archaeological data collection. Previous small 3D capture systems included specialized Google and Sony smartphones, and the moderately expensive DotProduct DPI-8X handheld scanner....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Xóchitl Martínez Martínez. Cesar Dante García Ríos. Eduardo García Wigueras.

This is an abstract from the "Avances en los estudios de la arquitectura de Monte Albán" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Las exploraciones arqueológicas del Edificio P de Monte Albán, enmarcadas en el Proyecto de Conservación de los Edificios dañados por los Sismos del 2017 en Monte Albán-Atzompa, han permitido identificar evidencias arqueológicas que muestran las etapas y sistemas constructivos que se realizaron en el mismo entre el Clásico...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Clara Alexander. Sandra Balanzario. Alexandre Tokovinine.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. El asentamiento prehispánico de El Resbalón está ubicado en el sur de Quintana Roo y alberga la segunda escalera jeroglífica más grande conocida en el área Maya. El proyecto “Levantamiento digital de los bienes muebles e inmuebles de los sitios arqueológicos de Dzibanché, Ichkabal y El Resbalón”, en colaboración con el Instituto Nacional de Antropología e...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emma Ludvigsen. Emily Demers. Jacqueline Nash.

This is an abstract from the "Capturing and Sharing Vermont’s Past: 3D Imaging as a Tool for Undergraduate Research and Community Engagement" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Castleton campus of the new Vermont State University is one of the oldest institutions of higher education in the country, first opening its doors to students in 1787 and serving as one of New England’s leading medical colleges from 1818 to 1867. Today, the few reminders of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jacob DeGayner. Iraida Rodriguez.

This is an abstract from the "The Vanishing Treasures Program: Celebrating 20 Years of National Park Service Historic Preservation" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Terrestrial laser scanning has emerged as a versatile tool and standard practice for the documentation, analysis, and storage of spatial information related to cultural resource management. While laser scanning surveys are completed with multiple outcomes in mind, cultural resource...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Justin Mohammadi. Stefan Woehlke. Olivia Meoni.

This is an abstract from the "Unsettling Infrastructure: Theorizing Infrastructure and Bio-Political Ecologies in a More-Than-Human World" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. North Brentwood is a historic Black community on the outskirts of Washington, DC. It is the second Black town incorporated in Maryland, and the first suburban one in the state. Its founding is steeped in the exploitation of social and environmental infrastructures to turn a profit...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ellen Moriarty. Matthew Moriarty.

This is an abstract from the "Capturing and Sharing Vermont’s Past: 3D Imaging as a Tool for Undergraduate Research and Community Engagement" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Community outreach has played a major role in the Castleton Hidden History Project, which highlights a diverse and inclusive history of the Castleton, VT area from the end of the Ice Age through the present day. Since 2023, a significant part of outreach programming has...