Landscape Archaeology (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Manuel Calongos Curotto.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Cañete Valley was of great economic importance to the Inca Empire. The presence of sites like Huacones/Vilcahuasi in the lower section of the valley or Incahuasi in the middle section, both of them having various sets of storage facilities, shows the significance of the intensive agricultural production of the valley. However, we still do not...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Whitley.

This is an abstract from the "Interdisciplinary Approaches to Landscape Archaeology - Part 1" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Ritual landscape studies have been bedeviled by confusions of correlation with causation. Rock art sites in the North American desert west, for example, are often said to signal the locations of water, because the sites are (sometimes) found at springs. But this is a clear confusion of correlation with causation: anyone...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katie Simon.

This is an abstract from the "Lidar Research in the US Southwest" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Documentation of precontact and historic roads/trails can suffer from subjective identification criteria by the average archaeologist. This is due to frequently subtle physical expressions that compromise our ability to accurately map them with consistency, and ultimately manage them. This presentation will review LiDAR data processing, analytics, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Daniel Hansen.

This is an abstract from the "Reinvent, Reclaim, Redefine: Considerations of "Reuse" in Archaeological Contexts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent archaeological work on the people known as the Picts of northern Britain (ca. 300–900 CE) has revealed that many of the Picts’ characteristic monuments and structures made use of materials previously made significant in prehistory. A portion of the Pictish “symbol stones”— a class of stone monuments...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alesha Marcum-Heiman. Diana Greenlee.

The monumental core of Poverty Point (16WC5) has been the focus of considerable archaeological research, particularly since the early 1980s, but the broader spatial context of the site is less well known. Indeed, it has been estimated that < 12% of the Poverty Point Compatible Use Zone (PPCUZ), a nearly 5-km radius catchment area around the site, has been formally surveyed. The PPCUZ, which was established for management purposes, approximates the daily foraging radius for hunter-gatherers in a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cameron Gokee.

Over the past century, archaeological reconnaissance and survey in the Senegambia region of West Africa has identified more than 2000 megalithic cemetery sites dating to the Iron Age (circa 500 BC – AD 1500). Although a number of research programs have explored the histories of individual sites, it remains unclear how these related to one another within a regional tradition of mortuary practice and monument construction. This paper begins to address this issue through integrated geospatial and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Austin Tranberg.

This is an abstract from the "Ancient Seashore Sites and Environments in Geoarchaeology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Shell rings appear along the coast of the Southeastern U.S. during the Late Archaic period (3000—1000 cal B.C.). These circular depositions of marine shell were abandoned as a result of fluctuating sea levels before the start of the Woodland period, around 1000 cal B.C. This research looks to the landscape surrounding the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only D. Shane Miller. Ashley Smallwood. Phillip Carr. I. Randolph Daniel. Jesse Tune.

This is an abstract from the "*SE Big Data and Bigger Questions: Papers in Honor of David G. Anderson" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The early record of the American Southeast is best characterized as consisting of relatively few stratified, dated sites, yet an abundant surface record. In this paper, we discuss the pioneering work of David Anderson, who has spent a career cobbling together large datasets from academia, cultural resource...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brian Billman. Patrick Mullins. Nicole Payntar.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. We present the preliminary results of the Moche Valley Ancient Settlement Survey. MVASS involves systematic recording of all known prehistoric sites in the Moche Valley (2,708 km2) and creation of an open-access GIS environmental and archaeological database. The project involves archival research, drone mapping of key sites, and additional pedestrian survey. ...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Colin Quinn. Jess Beck.

This is an abstract from the "Living and Dying in Mountain and Highland Landscapes" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this paper, we introduce the agenda for the session Living and Dying in Mountain and Highland Landscapes. Mountains and high altitude areas are ideal spaces where archaeologists can examine the relationship between social action and the environment. As this session will show, the study of human remains must be situated with a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lia Kitteringham. Caroline Graham. Abhishek Sathiakumar. Edward Henry.

This is an abstract from the "Advances in Geoarchaeology and Environmental Archaeology Perspectives on Earthen-Built Constructions" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Pinson Mounds is a large Middle Woodland monument complex centrally located between two other mound centers in west Tennessee. Despite intermittent archaeological research, the Eastern Precinct of Pinson Mounds has remained understudied compared to earthen monuments situated throughout...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Daniel Hampson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Historically, research on prehistoric roads in the southwest has been heavily focused on Chaco and the San Juan Basin, however, these enigmatic anomalies extend into the Central and Western Mesa Verde Regions as well. LiDAR data for the Four Corners area has made it possible to peer through the trees and shrubs of the Great Sage Plain and observe the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Johnson.

This is an abstract from the "The State of the Art in Medieval European Archaeology: New Discoveries, Future Directions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper discussed the results of buildings and landscape survey at Bodiam Castle, SE England, 2010-2015. Bodiam is a much discussed site, a classic case study in the 'defense versus status' debate in castle studies. Our project moved beyond this false and misleading binary framing of a tired...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kyle Wright. Lawrence Todd.

In the early 21th Century, the Washakie Wilderness, which encompasses roughly 2850 km2 of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, was a virtual blank spot on the map of prehistoric archaeology with only three sites reported and no systematic inventories having been completed. By 2017 cooperative investigation between the Shoshone National Forest and Greybull River Sustainable Landscape Ecology (GRSLE) has completed 16 field seasons in the Washakie and documented 388 previously unknown prehistoric...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard Wilshusen. Kellam Throgmorton. Grant Coffey.

This is an abstract from the "Research, Education, and American Indian Partnerships at the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Research by the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center and affiliates has illuminated many periods of history in the central Mesa Verde region; it has also highlighted several lacunae. The Long Tenth Century (AD 890–1030) is one of these lacunae. There is a conspicuous gap in the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Linda Stine.

North Carolina’s Department of Cultural Resources is pressed by state legislators to justify keeping Historic Site’s properties open, and its Office of State Archaeology (OSA) staff gainfully employed. The state university system has also seen its share of cuts. By pooling research interests and resources, OSA and University of North Carolina Greensboro archaeologists and geography professors and students could highlight potential below ground features and excavate at two sites. The project...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert C. Chidester.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Colonial Forts in Comparative, Global, and Contemporary Perspective", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Fort Miamis, a British military outpost built in 1794 near present-day Toledo, Ohio, was an attempt to establish the British Empire and British identity in hotly contested territory. Poorly located and poorly constructed, the fort was never actually completed before it was turned over to U.S. forces in 1796....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark Golitko.

This is an abstract from the "Theorizing Warfare: Global Perspectives on Defense and Fortification" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Buffer zones, areas unoccupied due to conflict or threat of conflict, have been abundantly documented historically and ethnographically and recognized archaeologically in some regions. In the context of ecological models of warfare, their existence was taken by some to suggest that population and resource pressure did...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher Kerns.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. It is well known that archaeology is done in the present with the future in mind, something archaeologists can sometimes easily forget. We care about the remnants of the past and put an extraordinary amount of effort into studying, preserving and protecting them because they tell a story about the people and places that matter to us, today, in the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ramie Gougeon. Gregory Cook.

This is an abstract from the "Submerged Paleolandscape Investigations in the Gulf of Mexico" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In spite of an increased interest in submerged terrestrial landscapes and an increased need for trained professional archaeologists to support offshore energy development projects, educational programs in the advanced survey technologies, analytical software and methodologies, and educational coursework necessary to discover...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jon Spenard.

This presentation offers an analysis of the architectural modifications made to the limestone karst landscape in the Classic period Maya polity of Pacbitun in the Cayo District, Belize. The Maya concepts ch’een (hole in the ground for communication with the supernatural world), and k’aax (wilderness) provide the overall framework for this paper. Through two case studies, I explore the range of karst features the Pacbitun Maya used as ch’een, the variety of ways the landmarks were modified for...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Craig Shapiro.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Analyses of lidar datasets have allowed archaeologists to expand the study of archaeological landscapes to study extensively human-modified environments at regional scales with more advanced geospatial methods. In Sāmoa, lidar reveals networks of ditches, terraces, and other earthen- and stone-monumental architectural features which extend from the coast...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher Ringstaff.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Buttermilk Creek Ranch (BCR) is located within the upper Buttermilk Creek Valley in Bell and Williamson Counties, Texas. Across this landscape, valley incision dissects chert-bearing limestones of the Lower Cretaceous Edwards Group exposing extensive outcrops of tool quality stone. In direct proximity to BCR, are the well-known multi-component sites...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Melonie R Shier.

When thinking about open range cattle production, seldom is that image linked to a picture of corporate America. The Kern County Land Company operating on over 2 million acres of land in the American West, much of it devoted to animal husbandry. All stages of husbandry was operated by the Kern County Land Company from the cow / calf operations to the abattoir and shipping to supermarkets.  In the San Emigdio Hills in south central California, where this paper will focus, the Emigdio Ranch was...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard Espino Huaman. Jo Osborn. Camille Weinberg. Brittany Hundman.

This is an abstract from the "Developments through Time on the South Coast of Peru: In Memory of Patrick Carmichael" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. En los últimos años, investigaciones arqueológicas en los valles de Cañete y Chincha han avanzados nuestro conocimiento de estas regiones, sus sociedades, y sus transformaciones durante el Intermedio Tardío y el Horizonte Tardío. Sin embargo, aunque queda claro que había conexiones fuertes entre las...