Landscape Archaeology (Other Keyword)
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This is an abstract from the "2023 Fryxell Award Symposium: Papers in Honor of Timothy Beach Part I" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The ancient inhabitants of the Elevated Interior Region of the Maya Lowlands spent centuries devising ways to capture and store rainwater in this seasonally arid environment devoid of sizeable permanent surface water bodies. Over time, varied methods were created to ensure a sufficient quantity of water to meet the...
How to Characterize in visu Mountains' Shape and Its Significance in Inca Culture? (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Developments and Challenges in Landscape Archaeology" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Beyond geomorphology, mountains are complex cultural entities. In Inca culture, they embodied powerful social agents, wak’as, and constituted meaningful places in the territories that composed the empire. Early colonial chronicles, as well as ethnological heritages, offer abundant data and analogies on mountains' cultural...
How Worlds Collide: Drought and Culture Change in a Late Woodland Frontier (2025)
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. The interwoven pathways of culture and environment are key to the interpretation of the past. Ancient peoples navigated the complexities of environmental changes through strategic decisions and the management of local landscapes. This dynamic holds true for the Chesapeake region where historically...
<html>Duh Jukang, <i>Wak’a</i>, and Other Physical Manifestations of the Volcanic Divine: Indigenous Perceptions of Volcanism in the Barbacoan World</html> (2025)
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. <html> Throughout Spanish colonialism to the modern, written accounts often mentioned Indigenous ontologies of volcanoes and their influence on the lived realities of communities throughout the northern Andes, especially within Barbacoan regions. The Tsáchila referred to volcanoes...
<html>Holocene and Late Pleistocene Shorelines and Settlement on the Outer Northwest Coast: Archaeology of <i>Laxnuganaks/</i>the Moore Islands Archipelago, BC, Canada</html> (2025)
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. The outer coast of western North America is archaeologically significant because it was accessible and inhabitable for humans early on following the Last Glacial Maximum, and because its resource-rich islands necessitate unique lifeways and adaptations. We examine the geoarchaeological record of the Moore Islands, a small...
<html>Knives Out: Excavations at the “House of the Blademaker” in Tututepec (<i>Yucu Dzaa</i>), Oaxaca, Mexico.</html> (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Moving the Needle: Expanding the Discourse on Modern Archaeology in Oaxaca Part II" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Tututepec (Yucu Dzaa) was a Mixtec capital that controlled much of coastal Oaxaca (Mexico) during the Late Postclassic Period (AD 1100-1522). Since 2005, residential excavations have focused on commoner lifeways, including patterns of domestic production, consumption, and exchange, and how these shed...
<html>Seasons of Movement: Omnidirectional Connectivity Modeling of Indigenous Place-Making in the Great Bay Estuary (<i>P8bagok</i>)</html> (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Ancient Pedestrians: Current Research in GIS-Based Movement Modeling for Archaeology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> Movement has featured in archaeological GIS efforts to analyze social uses of landscape since the start. Important work has focused on Least Cost Paths. However, dividing landscapes into a binary of key sites to be connected and a matrix of land between does not always capture the scope of...
<html>Upper Paleolithic Landscapes, Settlement Systems, and the <i>Longue Durée</i></html> (2025)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Published scholarship of the Upper Paleolithic foregrounds the archaeology of cave deposits, larger archaeological sites, and unusual discoveries, an overrepresentation that biases the regional analysis of Late Pleistocene settlement systems. This presentation demonstrates the analytical necessity of systematically sampling and characterizing...
<html>Weathering Change: <i>Responses to Climatic Change along the Black Warrior River</i></html> (2025)
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. During the Late-Mid Holocene the southeast was impacted by dramatic changes in climate causing what appears to be a large shift in past people’s interaction with the landscape seen through a regionwide restructuring of settlement patterns and the abandonment of significant places. Noting these...
Human and Environmental Histories of the Rat Islands, Western Aleutians, Alaska: The 2014-2015 Research Season (2015)
Our multidisciplinary research team is beginning to model the role of humans in shaping the characteristics of existing southern Bering Sea and North Pacific terrestrial and marine ecologies in the Western Aleutians. During this past research season, we defined new cultural loci, acquired on and off-site pollen/tephra cores, and surveyed the coastal zone on areas of Kiska, Segula, and Little Sitkin Islands. The cultural occupations span Aleut prehistory and the World War II Japanese occupation....
Human Biogeography, Life Histories and Bioavailable Strontium in the Southern Andes (Argentina and Chile) (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Patagonian Evolutionary Archaeology and Human Paleoecology: Commending the Legacy (Still in the Making) of Luis Alberto Borrero in the Interpretation of Hunter-Gatherer Studies of the Southern Cone" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. While regionally focused in Patagonia, Luis Borrero’s research has contributed to shape archaeological practice beyond this region, encompassing South America at large. As a regional case...
A Human Geography of Aventura: Lidar and Settlement Survey (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Households at Aventura: Life and Community Longevity at an Ancient Maya City" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A human geography perspective provides our broadest lens to envision the entwined relationships of people, communities, and environments at Aventura. Drawing from an 18 km2 lidar survey and 1 km2 pedestrian survey, this paper presents a human geography of Aventura that links people, settlement, agriculture,...
Human Impact on an Inhospitable Plain: New Insights into the Hydraulic System of the Rio Huaycho (Lake Titicaca, Bolivia) (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Water Management in the Andes: Past, Present, and Future" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The ALTI-plano research project (Archaeological Lake Titicaca Inventory-Mapping) aims, in particular, to provide a complete map of archaeological sites along the eastern shores of Lake Titicaca. Our focus lies primarily on refining our grasp of local chronologies, human settlement patterns, and the environmental change effects on...
A human-environment balance in ancient island seascapes in Asia-Pacific (2025)
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. This paper will focus on the cultural landscapes and seascapes associated with stone-walled tidal fish weirs in Yap, Federated States of Micronesia, the islands of Palau, and in Penghu, Taiwan. In the main volcanic islands of Yap, over 450 of the estimated 800 fish weirs have been located, highlighting 12 different styles that...
Human-Environment Dynamics at the Arid Margin of the Levant: Fluctuating Freshwater Resources between 400,000 and 40,000 Years Ago in the Greater Azraq Oasis Area, Jordan (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Water in the Desert: Human Resilience in the Azraq Basin and Eastern Desert of Jordan" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Azraq Basin is a 12,000 km2 internal drainage system at the eastern margin of the Levant. The center of the basin, which we refer to as the Greater Azraq Oasis Area (GAOA), is characterized by a mudflat flanked by two historical wetlands. Desiccation of these wetlands in the early 1990s and...
Human-Environment Relationships and Spatial Organization in the Nepeña Valley, Ancash Peru (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The built environment is not a simple, haphazardly constructed idea. The human condition and cultural components, combined with environmental factors have undoubtedly influenced the built environment situated within landscapes. Not only are these landscapes environmental, but also social. In addition, these landscapes are not static and are subject to...
Hydraulic Nodes of Empire - Redux: Evaluating the role of artificial water tanks as indicators of territorial control in Cambodia’s medieval landscape (6th to 15th c. CE) (2015)
Elaborate water management systems in the form canals, bridges and massive reservoirs (baray) are a defining characteristic of medieval Khmer occupation across their former territories in mainland SE Asia. Beyond the cities, hydraulic control is further manifest in the widespread distribution of smaller water tanks (trapeang) visible across Cambodia and southern Laos. Found variously in association with temples, road infrastructure and settlement mounds these reservoirs represent a key data set...
Hydraulic Systems and Water Ideology in the Mayan Lowlands (2025)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Urban developments feature monumental architecture as well as diverse engineering systems that were part of daily activities and larger landscape modifications. Some of the urban constructions in ancient Maya cities included reservoirs and canals. Reservoirs were also part of ceremonial activities to maintain good relationships between humans, deities,...
"I Wanna Go Home, They Need Me:" Archaeological Investigation of German POW Camp D-D, Fort Campbell, KY (2022)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. From 1943-1946, Fort Campbell housed three separate German POW camps. An early cursory examination assumed all sub-surface archaeological deposits were destroyed by camp demolition and subsequent land use. No further investigations were conducted, and the POW camps were largely forgotten. That is, until a new housing development...
Iconographies of Interaction: Relating Rock Art Images in Western Colorado (2025)
This is an abstract from the "(Re) Imagining Rock Art Research" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. North American rock art researchers have long relied on stylistic conventions for identifying the age, cultural association, and, therefore, presumed “meaning” of petroglyphs and pictographs. These categories project archaeological lenses onto Indigenous iconography; when employed at rock art sites baring multiple iconographic “styles”, this approach...
Identifying Ancient Mesoamerican Fortifications with a Bayesian Network Model (2025)
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. Identifying fortifications in the archaeological record can lead to inferences of important elements of past human behavior and social evolution. However, identifying ancient fortifications can often be difficult and contentious. One solution is to avoid a binary approach to identification and instead utilize a...
Identifying Cultural Landscapes in Wilderness Areas on the Francis Marion National Forest (2018)
Wilderness is often interpreted to mean areas of pristine nature lacking evidence of human activity. But how realistic is this view given the length of human occupation where many endeavored to mold the landscape to suit their needs? The Francis Marion National Forest is positioned at the northern end of the Sea Islands Coastal Region of the South Atlantic Slope and contains four designated wilderness areas. Given the size and condition of the two largest wilderness areas the Forest Service...
Identifying Hunter-Gatherer Socialized Landscapes in the Bridger Mountains, Montana (2018)
Archaeologists working in the Rocky Mountains and throughout the world have long recognized that people invest social meanings into the landscape around them. Based on de Certeau’s (1984) "Spatial Stories," these "socialized landscapes" consist of two archaeologically identifiable components: espaces (practiced spaces) and tours (practiced paths). I operationalize these ideas by creating archaeological expectations for six socialized landscape types and ask what types of socialized landscapes...
Illuminating High Elevation Seasonal Occupational Duration in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem Using Patterning in Lithic Raw Materials and Tool Types (2019)
This is an abstract from the "New and Ongoing Research on the North American Plains and Rocky Mountains" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In recent years, our understanding of high elevation landscapes’ potential contribution to prehistoric foragers’ seasonal rounds has developed significantly. This paper advances that understanding further by offering a method for estimating relative occupational duration through time for high elevation landscapes....
(Im)movable Stone: a Comparative Analysis of Fieldstone Concentrations in Southern New England (2018)
Fieldstone concentrations are rarely accorded much significance in historical and archaeological studies of eighteenth and nineteenth century farmsteads in southern New England. This poster highlights research addressing the surface piles of stone remaining in and beyond the abandoned fields of colonial and early American farms. Whereas many have assumed that fieldstone was eventually or meant to be incorporated into the thousands of miles of stone walls that crisscross New England’s...