Landscape Archaeology (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Daniela Raillard.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The northeastern slopes of the Peruvian Andes are ruptured by jagged limestone cliffs containing tombs built into caves, ledges, and overhangs. While these tombs vary considerably in structural and stylistic form, ranging from painted sarcophagi to multi-storied mausolea, they have been associated with a single archaeological region defined as Chachapoyas....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Thegn Ladefoged. Benjamin Davies.

Cultivation in the Leeward Kohala Field System (Hawai‘i Island) required sufficient rainfall for crops to flourish. Periodic droughts restricted production to upper elevations where orographic rainfall was higher and more dependable, likely influencing the labour needs and settlement patterns of resident populations. We employ a series of spatially-explicit agent based models incorporating cultural conceptions of kapu (sacred) and noa (profane) in conjunction with environmental parameters and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Klassen.

This is an abstract from the "The Current State of Archaeological Research across Southeast Asia" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent research at Angkor has aggregated over 20 years of archaeological map data, which is providing important new perspectives on the agricultural production system of the polycentric low-density urban complex. Much scholarly attention has been directed towards the functional vs. ritual nature of the huge reservoirs...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eilis Monahan.

Monumental architecture, specifically in the form of structures classified as "fortifications," emerged on Cyprus at the end of the Middle Bronze Age, but these massive constructions remained in use for only a brief period of time. This period, however, is of critical importance to the transformation of Cypriot society from a relatively egalitarian village-based society to the urban-focused, politically complex society of the Late Bronze Age. Using the cluster of fortresses in the Agios...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Currie.

This is an abstract from the "Celebrating the Contributions of Volcanologists Minard Hall and Patricia Mothes to Ecuadorian Archaeology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the Andes, many large mountains are volcanoes, although Indigenous Andean peoples don't necessarily distinguish 'mere mountains' from those that are seismologically active. The name given to the largest and most significant in a region and accorded the highest veneration is...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Justin King. Heather Richards-Rissetto. Kristin Landau.

The concept of visibility: what or who is visible and who can see what, provides archaeologists with information about power, ideology, and interaction. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) allow us to quantify the visibility of archaeological features in landscapes and 3D visualizations and gives us a way to experience these past landscapes. In Maya archaeology, most visibility studies measure the visibility of monuments as a means to understand the role of architecture within ancient Maya...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Oscar Arias Espinoza. Atsushi Yamamoto. Juan Pablo Vargas Díaz.

This is an abstract from the "Beyond Borders at the End of a Millennium: Life in the Western Andes circa 500–50 BCE" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Nuestra exposición abordará la relación existente entre los sitios arqueológicos Cerro Narrio y Loma de Pinzhul durante el Periodo Formativo Final (500 aC-50 aC) de Ecuador. Proponemos que en esta sección del Cañar coexistieron ambos sitios como lugares ceremoniales que tenían relaciones de intercambio...

DOCUMENT Citation Only James Torpy.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During the first millennium BCE the countryside of Cyprus was marked by a large number of extra-urban sanctuaries. Previous studies have discussed the function of these shrines in demarcating or negotiating political boundaries between the island’s city states, and their decline under Ptolemaic and Roman rule. This study seeks to investigate the environmental...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lauren Welch O'Connor. Douglas J. Bolender.

The initial colonization of Iceland in the late 9th century had a profound impact on the fragile environment of the North Atlantic island. Settlement and the introduction of livestock resulted in widespread erosion and the replacement of woodlands with meadows and heaths. Changes in the environment are assumed to have played a role in determining settlement patterning and subsistence strategies. While marginal highland areas were most seriously affected, resulting in farmstead abandonment, the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Searcy. Todd Pitezel. Steve Swanson.

This is an abstract from the "Sacred Southwestern Landscapes: Archaeologies of Religious Ecology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. We develop a hypothesized cosmography in an attempt to evaluate the sacred landscapes of the Casas Grandes cultural tradition of northern Mexico. This analysis includes attention to the relationships among archaeological features and aspects of natural geography in the Casas Grandes region. We draw on previous research...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Philippe De Smedt.

Geophysical prospection methods are coming of age as a standard part of the archeological toolkit. Archaeologists, especially in Europe, are increasingly reliant on geophysical data in both developer-led and research archaeology. More recently, archaeological geophysics is bridging the gap between site and landscape through motorized survey strategies. This upscaling particularly highlights a number of methodological difficulties inherent to geophysical prospecting. A first follows its...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nadia Johnson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During the Formative Period, the Teotihuacan Valley’s population was dispersed in small farming settlements in the piedmont slopes surrounding the valley bottom. The end of this period witnessed a dramatic population shift, with the Valley’s inhabitants clustering near perennial streams on the valley floor, along with thousands of new migrants. Erosion is...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Danielle Phelps.

Howard Carter discovered the relatively intact tomb of Tutankhamun (KV 62), one of the last kings of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt, in the Valley of the Kings in 1922. Prior to the discovery, Carter discovered several small artifacts in the cliffs above the valley’s floor, which he proclaimed were indicators of a possible escape route of the ancient tomb raiders from the Valley of the Kings. During the excavation of the tomb, Carter also claimed to have identified two distinct robberies that...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ileana Echauri. Christophe Helmke.

This is an abstract from the "Recent Archaeological Investigations in Chiapas, Mexico" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A lo largo de tres temporadas de campo el “Proyecto Investigación Arqueológica en Yaxchilán y su entorno. Área del Meandro en el Usumacinta”, se ha centrado en realizar el reconocimiento de superficie de toda el meandro sobre la que se asienta Yaxchilán. Como parte de este proyecto, se detectaron alrededor de 20 pequeñas cuevas con...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Taylor Sink.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Despite nearly a century of archaeological investigations in Joshua Tree National Park, a history of arbitrary and inconsistent nomenclature for lithic materials has precluded any sort of landscape-level assemblage comparisons. To address this, I have assembled a dense catalog of all visually-distinct lithic raw materials and their relative frequencies at...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrew Zipkin. Stanley Ambrose. Gideon Bartov. Alexander Taylor. Mercy Gakii.

Ochre occurs in African archaeological sites from the later Middle Pleistocene to the ethnographic present. Ochre is used worldwide for symbolic and functional purposes, and is often considered to be evidence for symbolic behavior by cognitively modern Paleolithic humans. Geochemical provenience analysis, complemented by ethnographic studies of ochre source exploitation, transport, and use, can elucidate whether culturally mediated source exploitation differs significantly from a least-cost...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Brunswig. Pawel Valde-Nowak. Michael Kimball.

Significant advancements have been made in mountain archaeology throughout the world in recent decades. A central and rapidly expanding research theme has been that of seasonal transhumance, movement of human groups between lower to higher mountain-foothills-piedmont environmental zones in order exploit annual economic resource variability. Emerging European mountain records suggest human transhumance, based in seasonal variability of both economic plants, migratory game species, and, much...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sheila Nightingale. Jessica C. Thompson. Jacob Davis. Flora Schilt. Jeong-Heon Choi.

Abundant surface scatters of Middle Stone Age artifacts are found throughout northern Malawi, eroding from remnant alluvial fan deposits (Chitimwe Beds). Surface surveys documenting these areas have guided the emplacement of 50+ archaeological test pits and excavations, many of which have yielded in situ MSA sites. However, the surficial evidence itself has been subject to less discussion and merits closer attention. At the Bruce site, surface artifacts were identified as part of an assemblage...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Laura Bossio.

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. The Western Lake Erie region of the Lower Great Lakes witnessed immense change at ca. AD 1250. Late Woodland people, who were seasonally mobile on a dynamic riverine and wetland landscape, became settled village agriculturalists. Lifeways, pottery, and toolkits changed drastically. Two hypotheses to explain these...

DOCUMENT Citation Only R. Scott Plumlee.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Cultural Resource Management Program of the Gila River Indian Community recently surveyed over 4,000 acres of Kaibab Paiute tribal lands in northern Arizona, recording over 85 archaeological sites. The survey examined broad basins and small hills, in areas of relatively low slope, but bordered by the Vermillion Cliffs. Most of the newly recorded...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Wright. Scott MacEachern. Stanley Ambrose.

African landscapes have undergone radical ecological transformations since agriculture was introduced and spread across the continent. In some areas, it appears that grassland was encouraged at the expense of forests and woodlands, for agriculture and to provide fodder for livestock. To this point, most of the evidence for such practices has come secondarily from ocean or swamp cores, not directly from archaeological contexts. In this paper, we present a scenario for landscape evolution and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ron Adams.

Expansive outcrops of high-quality cryptocrystalline silicate toolstone occur in many localities within the Columbia Plateau region of North America. Archaeological evidence indicates that these locations were utilized extensively by pre-contact Native American groups. The geological processes that shaped these landforms and produced outcropping lithic material also created ideal conditions for the growth plant food resources, particularly root crops. These root crops thrive on the lithosols...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paulina Przystupa.

Institutions played an important part in American culture during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, serving segments of society that could not take care of themselves. While asylums, orphanages, and boarding schools have come to have a negative connotation in modern American culture, these places played a formative role in the enculturation and care for multiple generations and ethnicities in the United States. Particularly, children’s homes or orphanages and Native American Boarding...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dana Evaschuk. Keli Watson. Mike Robertson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Excavations of natural geological kettle formations are uncommon in Cultural Resource Management projects in British Columbia. Discovery of a large cache of processed red ochre is even more rare with only one similar ochre cache known to exist on the Canadian Plateau. Ochre is an iron oxide prevalent in the Rainbow Mountain Range, part of the Anahim...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eileen Williams.

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