Digital Archaeology: Photogrammetry (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gerad Smith.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper seeks to interpret the spatial patterning of the Swan Point Locus 2 site, interpreted to be a seasonal residential site. The site, located on a hill overlooking a small northern tributary of the Tanana River, consists of several features in excellent preservation. The assemblage suggests a pattern of features and artifacts consistent with a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Faithleigh Podzimek. Ben Kreimer. Phil Geib.

This is an abstract from the "Interdisciplinary Approaches to Rock Art Documentation, Research, and Analysis" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Our research involves creating and analyzing a 3D model of an inaccessible petroglyph panel in southeastern Utah. The rock art panel occupies the cliff face of an alcove approximately 10–30 m above the modern ground surface. Such heights make documentation difficult; this lofty position likely caused the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Albert Waters. John Vandergugten. Gavin Donathan.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeology is of great public interest, but a lack of approachable academic and popular materials may deter public engagement with our field and our research, meaning archaeologists must develop innovative means of communication. It is also vital that we make our work more accessible to local community members, whose history we are often excavating. Digital...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Genevieve Lucet. Irais Hernández.

To study Mesoamerican architecture and urbanism, their graphic description is required. This description must be accurate, and it is traditionally expressed in coded and scaled drawings. For decades, archaeologists have produced extensive documentation of their excavations, which institutional services in charge of the registration of monuments have supplemented to obtain complete inventories in order to support conservation and restoration activities. However, this material has been...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Lynch.

This is an abstract from the "Digitizing the Past: Studying Ancient Ground Stone Toolkits Using Modern Technology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Nine ground stone tool (GST) artifacts were recovered during the 1960s and 1990s excavations at the Hell Gap National Historic Landmark. They were found in units dating to ~10,800 - 10,000 years ago. These GST artifacts are on loan to Eastern New Mexico University digital archaeology lab from the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brendan Cassidy. David Robinson. Devlin Gandy.

This presentation showcases the contemporary value of Virtual Reality as a means to experience difficult to access, sensitive cultural sites for different stakeholder groups including researchers, land owners, and Native groups. Here, we show the enhanced virtual reality environment of Pleito Cave, a fragile world class rock art site with accessibility limitation. We discuss how scientific research can be translated into VR data sets to speak to diverse communities and different needs, providing...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Danielle Buffa. George Manahira. Zafy Maharesy Chrisostome. Felicia Fenomanana. Kristina Douglass.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In African and Indo-Pacific contexts, beads play a significant role in the maintenance of social and economic networks across long distances. In modern continental African contexts, these networks are argued to represent delayed reciprocity, with beads acting as a currency to secure the relationship between distant gifting partners. However, archaeological...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Daniela Raillard Arias.

This is an abstract from the "Adventures in Spatial Archaeometry: A Survey of Recent High-Resolution Survey and Measurement Applications" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. For centuries, Indigenous Andean communities known as the Chachapoya placed their ancestral dead in aboveground architecture across the landscape of the Amazonian Andes, in what is now northeastern Peru. The study of Chachapoya ancestral sites presents a series of ethical and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kelsey Pennanen. Peter Dawson. Christian Thomas.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. There is a strong need to document heritage landscapes impacted due to rapidly changing climates in Canada. This paper presents two case studies about using UAV-based technology to better understand landscapes impacted by climate change. Both examples use UAV photogrammetric methods to monitor large and complex archaeological heritage sites. The first case...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Timothy Scheffler.

This is an abstract from the "The Value of Rock Art: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Current Rock Art Documentation, Research, and Analysis, Part I" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> The 2014 eruption of Kīlauea Volcano prompted the emergency survey of a cave in the Puna District of Hawaiʻi Island. The survey recorded several kilometers of cave passage including stacked rock structures, midden, and also a distinctive feature in the form of a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alex Badillo. Aaron Estes. Zachary Brown. Hannah Redlin.

This is an abstract from the "The Bethel Cemetery Relocation Project: Historical, Osteological, and Material Culture Analyses of a Nineteenth-Century Indiana Cemetery" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During the summer of 2018, cultural resource management professionals in collaboration with local universities excavated a nineteenth-century cemetery as part of planned infrastructure expansion by the Indianapolis International Airport. Project...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kelly Cresci-Fulmer.

This is an abstract from the "Digitizing the Past: Studying Ancient Ground Stone Toolkits Using Modern Technology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The discovery and archaeological excavation of the Hell Gap National Historic Landmark, north of Guernsey, Wyoming provided archaeologists with a breadth of knowledge of North American cultures, ranging from Folsom to Archaic. One set of artifacts recovered from the site is an ancient ground stone tool...

DOCUMENT Citation Only William Zimmerle.

This is an abstract from the "Interdisciplinary Approaches to Rock Art Documentation, Research, and Analysis" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Protected in cave shelters, Dhofar's painted rock art in Oman are well-preserved and give an unprecedented glimpse into Arabia's pre-Islamic history. The pictographs and accompanying South Arabian inscriptions, which extend from the coastal plain to the Rub' Al Khali desert and to the Jebel Qara mountains at...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Steve Kosiba. Bruce Mannheim.

This is an abstract from the "Beyond the Round House: Spatial Logic and Settlement Organization across the Late Andean Highlands" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Scholars of the Andes often assume that the social units they study—residence, community, and region—are monotonically scaled, nested from smaller to larger. This suggests universal correspondences between the analytical and observational objects through which social units are known; hence...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lauren Franklin.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The creation of 3D models using photogrammetry has become an increasingly important aspect of archaeological investigation and outreach, allowing researchers to ask deeper quantitative questions and reach wider audiences. As technological advancements continue, it is crucial to assess how effectively photogrammetry applications are producing...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Summer Kiker.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since the early 2000s, the Belize Institute of Archaeology has been expending considerable effort to enhance the tourism potential of its archaeological sites, to contribute to heritage education in rural areas of the country, and to provide information that can be used by tourism stakeholders. To assist these Belizean initiatives, archaeologists from...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lisa Monetti.

This is an abstract from the "The Arch Street Project: Multidisciplinary Research of a Philadelphia Cemetery" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The highly collaborative nature of the Arch Street Project allowed for hands-on learning opportunities for university students. This was an especially valuable experience at universities that traditionally rely on replica human remains for teaching as it increased student access to taphonomic conditions,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Radoslaw Palonka. Katarzyna Ciomek. Vincent MacMillan. Ross Gralia. Maiya Gralia.

This is an abstract from the "From the Plains to the Plateau: Papers in Honor of James D. Keyser" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper focuses on the presentation of selected examples of Ancestral Pueblo and historic Ute rock art panels located in the Sand Canyon and Sandstone Canyon areas within the Canyons of the Ancients National Monument (CANM), southwestern Colorado, USA, and raises some methodological questions. Some of the panels...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Benjamin Van Alstyne. Karen Harry. Daniel Perez.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During the summer of 2019, members of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas excavated two rooms within Pete’s Pocket, a Virgin Branch Pueblo cultural site located on the Shivwits Plateau in Arizona. The rooms, which were located about 300 meters from the north rim of the Grand Canyon, were contiguous and circular, forming an almost figure-eight shape. An...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Beatriz Menéndez Iglesias.

This is an abstract from the "The Value of Rock Art: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Current Rock Art Documentation, Research, and Analysis, Part I" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Cucurpe is in northwestern Sonora (Mexico), in the lower foothills of the Sierra Madre Occidental. The region is characterised by rock art in small caves and rock shelters of volcanic tuff with a higher concentration of paintings than engravings. During the recording of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brady Liss. Matthew Howland. Anthony Tamberino. Scott McAvoy. Thomas Levy.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Using photography to thoroughly document the excavation process is a common and long-standing practice on most archaeological excavations. Moreover, since the advent of digital photography, the number of photos captured of an excavation has generally increased. The Edom Lowlands Regional Archaeology Project (directed by Thomas E. Levy and Mohammad Najjar) has...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mikael Fauvelle.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Located on the Pacific Coast of Chiapas, Mexico, the site of Fracción Mujular is best known for its corpus of carved stone monuments. First investigated by Carlos Navarrete in the 1960’s, the site is characterized by multiple stelae and carved altars. Several of Fracción Mujular’s stelae contain circular glyphs which seem to associate the site with the nearby...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Arkush.

This is an abstract from the "Beyond the Round House: Spatial Logic and Settlement Organization across the Late Andean Highlands" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. At hilltop sites in the Titicaca basin, the good architectural preservation of house foundations, patios, walkways, tombs, and dividing walls offers a glimpse of the organization and day-to-day functioning of LIP communities. These architectural choices potentially had implications for the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Alex Badillo.

This is a field manual that describes the procedures and protocols for 3D documentation of historic cemeteries using structure from motion photogrammetry.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joshua Myers. Alex Badillo.

This is an abstract from the "Towards a Standardization of Photogrammetric Methods in Archaeology: A Conversation about 'Best Practices' in An Emerging Methodology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During the summer of 2018, cultural resource management professionals, in collaboration with local universities, relocated a nineteenth-century cemetery from an urban setting, as a component of planned infrastructure expansion by the Indianapolis...