Landscape Archaeology (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Estanislao Pazmiño.

This is an abstract from the "The Archaeology of Tropical Montane Cloud Forests" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The cloud forests along the eastern and western foothills of the northern Andes have received little attention in the overall archaeology of South America. These regions of broken geography and dense forests have historically been considered culturally poor, with little impact on the sociocultural transformations of the Andean and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rachel Cajigas.

This is an abstract from the "Culture, Climate, and Connections: Eventful Histories of Human-Environment Relations" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Creighton Island shell ring (9MC87) is a crescent-shaped shell midden, approximately 40 m in diameter, that was constructed by Native Americans participating in multi-seasonal, cooperative and sustainable shell-fish mass capture and fishing techniques during the Late Archaic period (3000–1000 B.C.)....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rui Gomes Coelho.

The expansion of modern capitalism in the 19th century led to higher demands for commodities such as coffee, sugar, and cotton. The production of these commodities, however, was associated to an increasing industrialization of slave labor ("Second slavery"). The Paraíba valley in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, produced most of the coffee consumed in Europe and North America. The central question is: how was the valley constructed over the 19th century as a landscape of enslavement? Labor routines...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Deborah Rotman.

Nineteenth-century tenant families on the Bingham Estate and throughout rural Ireland resided in cottage clusters known as clachans, nucleated groups of farmhouses, where land-holding was communal and often had considerable ties of kinship. These settlements were intimately associated with rundale farming, a system of cooperative or collective agriculture. This system was a sophisticated response to specific ecological conditions. Lands within infields, outfields, and commonage were allocated so...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Winston Hurst.

This is an abstract from the "Lidar Research in the US Southwest" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Comb Wash Great House was the first ancient Puebloan community center in Utah west of Comb Ridge to be formally recognized and described in the archaeological literature (W. H. Jackson 1875). It was ignored for more than a century before Owen Severance recognized and documented several Puebloan road swales there in the late 1980s. Subsequent...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Maddox.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During the Classic Period the ancient Maya ballgame has been seen as a focal point of religious and political ritual practices. These activities primarily take place in spaces where commoners are traditionally thought to have been excluded and serve to reinforce the ideology and legitimacy of elite religious beliefs. This paper will outline excavations of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Reeves.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Historical Archaeology of Chesapeake Landscapes in Transition", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Clientage Model, as defined by Dr. Michael Blakey and his team, is one in which the archaeologists give the descendants primacy in defining the research and interpretive agenda directed towards their ancestral material record. We have strove to have descendants guide our approach to the archaeological record at...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Heather Richards-Rissetto. Ellis Codd.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. For decades, many archaeologists did not consider ancient Maya centers such as Tikal, Palenque, and Copan to be cities. While today most archaeologists would agree that large Maya centers were cities, the nature of Maya urbanism is still little understood. Maya cities seem different, and in attempt to explain these differences, they have been termed "Garden...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Byron Ortiz.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Esta investigación se basa en estudios y uso de caminos, en la región Noroccidental de Pichincha y la meseta de Quito, desde distintas perspectivas como: la arqueología del paisaje, memoria oral y análisis de la ruta óptima (LCP). Para empezar mi investigación se enfoca en la evolución de los caminos en la región, desde la época precolombina hasta...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hetty Jo Brumbach. Robert Jarvenpa.

The sexual division of labor in many societies situates women and men in livelihood activities which differ markedly in their locations, facilities, and relationship to other features in both the built and non-built environment. The repeated juxtaposition of these behaviors and elements over time result in rather distinctive female and male viewsheds or vistas and, ultimately, gendered perceptions and interpretations of the landscape. Consider the perceptual field of a woman scraping hides on...

DOCUMENT Citation Only James Boone.

This is an abstract from the "Mind the Gap: Exploring Uncharted Territories in Medieval European Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Attempts to describe and explain differences between Western and Asian state structures have a long history, starting with Marx’s Asiatic Mode of Production and Wittfogel’s Oriental Despotism.The bottom-up approach offered here argues that differences between the two forms are due largely to the way primary...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mary De La Garza.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The use of aerial remote sensing technology to detect, collect, and investigate archaeological data is an increasingly popular component of archaeological research. Data from drone-based lidar collected below 400 feet allows archaeologists to construct detailed 3D images of the ground surface. During 2023, the University of Iowa Office of the State...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Leonid Vyazov. Carlos Cordova. Mikhail Blinnikov. Elena Ponomarenko. Ayrat Sitdikov.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The results of on-site archaeological investigations alone are not enough to reconstruct landscape histories, because they provide incomplete information on past environments. In contrast, off-site sedimentary archives can provide information on the interaction of natural and human processes that modify the landscape. Our initial research on the sedimentary...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Caitlin Rankin.

This is an abstract from the "Geoarchaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Ongoing geoarchaeological research studying the relationship between urbanism and environmental change at the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Cahokia Mounds has begun to unravel a pre-contact landscape concealed by historic land-use practices. Archaeological excavations and sediment coring conducted to understand the environmental conditions during the construction and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Timothy Hare.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. I present an analysis of the landscape connecting shifting ceremonial groups and settlement distributed across the Terminal Classic and Postclassic landscapes in the Mayapán region. Mayapán is the largest Postclassic urban center in the Maya Lowlands and has been the focus of previous research in the area. Traditional and lidar surveys at Mayapán reveal a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lauren Lippiello.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper provides a detailed interpretation of the rock art site Khor Abu Subeira South 1 (KASS1), Egypt during a transitional stage in the political and social development of ancient Egypt. The various thematic programs in use at the site indicate that the site transforms from its initial use as a hunting ground to a location used for ritual...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessica Smeeks.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. According to landscape archaeologists, structures are not passive forms of material culture or passive backdrops of culture. They are cultural modifications that not only reflect, communicate, or symbolically express past ideas and cultures but also actively mold or influence future human actions. Architectural form depends on functional and social demands—a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Castillo Acal.

This is an abstract from the "The Bolonchen Regional Archaeological Project: 25 Years of Research in the Puuc" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological investigations in the Bolonchen district have as one of their goals the understanding of the variation of the natural resource exploitation by the ancient settlers in the region. An approach that has been a relevant for reconstruction of the landscape and prehispanic forest management is...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Muñiz. Kimberly Sumano.

Northern Mexico has traditionally been underrepresented in received archaeological scholarship on Mesoamerica, and in this sense the Guadiana branch of the Chalchihuites Culture in Durango is no exception. Nonetheless, in recent years archaeological research in the region has produced a body of new data that permits a deeper understanding of the ancient inhabitants of Durango. This paper explores archaeological evidence from the Santiago Bayacora basin, a riverine watershed whose lower portion...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Troy Lovata.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Wickiups—sometimes labeled as lean-tos or even misidentified as tipis—are relatively ephemeral, petite wooden structures with a clear presence in the American Intermountain West. Extensive archaeological research has been conducted into wickiups created by Numic peoples and Utes and Apaches in the protohistoric and historic periods. Yet, as with artifacts and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lindsay Montgomery.

This is an abstract from the "Contested Landscapes: The Archaeology of Politics, Borders, and Movement" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 1878, the Rosebud agency moved to its contemporary location at the junction of Rosebud Creek and the south fork of the White River. Over the course of the next decade, members of the Sincangu (Brulé) Sioux led by the charismatic headmen Spotted Tail came to settle within the reservation. While the reservation’s...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrew McCarthy. Arthur Krupicz. Kevin Rafferty. Barbara Roth. Samantha Rubinson.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeology of the Virgin Branch Puebloan Region" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Famous for its striking natural landscapes, abundant petroglyphs and important prehistory, Nevada’s Valley of Fire State Park is well known to the public, but our picture of the archaeological remains from here is piecemeal rather than comprehensive. A new joint project by College of Southern Nevada, Nevada State Parks, the State Historic...

DOCUMENT Citation Only William Balco.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological investigations of the Kohler Dunes and Swales site (47SB0713) situated in Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, identified overwhelming evidence of precontact occupation and land use by Archaic, Early Woodland, Middle Woodland, Late Woodland, and Oneota populations. This paper parses the more than 1,000 features, 75 cultural strata, and 11...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jo Burkholder.

Data from excavations at the site of Pisanay, a Late Intermediate Period "sanctuary" with some remains of Early Intermediate Period ceremonialism, can be used to frame a sort of "before and after" picture of Middle Horizon developments in the Sihuas Valley of Arequipa and the changing nature of cultural ties to the region. Most striking of these is the shifting pattern of materials ties impacted by the intervening influence of the Wari cultural horizon, seen in the ceramics and textiles...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexis Mantha.

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. Late Intermediate settlements in the Rapayán/Tantamayo region are distributed in two main ecological zones: quechua/suni between 2500 to 3900 m.a.s.l. and puna above 4000 m.a.s.l. The majority of residential sites occupy the quechua/suni ecological zone. These settlements display a fairly...