Landscape Archaeology (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alden Yépez.

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. Many authors who have studied the upper Upano region of the Ecuadorian Amazon have suggested that a significant shift occurred between AD 300 and 600, followed by a hiatus of 200 years until AD 800, which is attributed to a supposed catastrophic eruption of the Sangay volcano. This...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Zachary Silvia.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper presents preliminary results of systematic aerial and geophysical survey in the Kyzylkum Desert, west of the Bukhara Oasis (Uzbekistan) from 2023-24. Our work utilizes a combined approach of magnetometry, ground penetrating radar, traditional panchromatic aerial photography, and aerial thermography to document land use patterns of relict...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Florencio Delgado Espinoza.

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. The history of northern Ecuador is marked by the enduring resilience of its inhabitants, who have continuously adapted to a dynamic and often challenging environment. Along the northern coast, communities have repeatedly faced significant hardships, including frequent flooding...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Frachetti. Edward Henry. Taylor Hermes. Elissa Bullion. Farhod Maksudov.

Using remote sensing techniques along with standard archaeological survey in 2011 our collaborative team discovered the Silk Road city of Tashbulak, located at roughly 2000m elevation, in the mountains of Uzbekistan. The modern environmental and political particulars of this high-altitude city made the use of aerial photography and Geophysics essential tools for documenting this unexpected mountain site and allowing for clear documentation and targeted research in a (geographically) restricted...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Pedro Urquijo.

This is an abstract from the "Landscapes: Archaeological, Historic, and Ethnographic Perspectives from the New World / Paisajes: Perspectivas arqueológicas, históricas y etnográficas desde el Nuevo Mundo" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Through a geographical and historical analysis, we propose to interpret the territorial and ritual organization of the landscapes in the Colombino Codex, which alludes mainly to the heroic feats of Lord 8 Venado...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Abigail Buffington. Smiti Nathan. Mary Lawrence Young.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeologists use charcoal assemblages principally to reconstruct chronologies and past vegetative landscapes, especially when sampled from long-used refuse features, though human decision-making plays a role in the construction of these assemblages. In this paper, we will gather together a dataset reflecting an unpublished dataset from three sites in the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Glenn W. Sheehan.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only William White. Brandi E. Bethke.

The boarding school system of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was designed by the United States government as a formal program to eradicate Native American cultural identities and lifeways. It was a system that removed Native children from their families and forced them into to a way of life that garishly clashed with their traditional beliefs and culture. One of the primary goals of the Cut Bank Boarding School on the Blackfeet Reservation in Browning, Montana was to transform...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Gustas. Kisha Supernant.

Spatial modeling of early prehistoric maritime movement on the Pacific Northwest Coast is important in contemporary archaeology because it can help locate new sites in a landscape which has radically changed over the last 20,000 years. Here we present the theoretical framework used in a research project which modeled maritime movement using least cost path analysis (LCP) to determine the routes most likely to have been traveled by the inhabitants of the Dundas Islands, British Columbia over the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Charles Andrews.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Along with many other disciplines, Space and Power are both topics of long-standing interest within archaeology. Space has been heavily theorized by authors such as LeFebvre, de Certeau, Soja, and Adam Smith. While there has not been an equivalent to the “Spatial Turn,” Power has also received much attention, and authors such as Marx, Althusser, Bourdieu,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Parcak.

This paper will discuss the range and type of studies possible based on past and current advances in the field of satellite remote sensing. It will focus on work in the Middle East, North Africa, the Mediterranean, Europe, and North Atlantic. The paper will primarily focus on the range and type of questions is it possible to ask (and in some cases answer) using a diverse range of satellite datasets combined with intensive ground survey and excavation. It will also provide a range if...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cristina Incio-DelRio.

This is an abstract from the "On Both Sides of the Atlantic: Historical Archaeology of Rural Modernization from the American and European Traditions" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Although peasant communities seem to have changed little from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century according to the prevailing historical narratives, the analysis of their materiality indicates the opposite. Thus, this presentation brings the case of Terra de...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Diego Bitencourt Mañas. Bruno Trípode Bartaquini. Rui Sérgio Sereni Murrieta. Marcia Maria Arcuri Suñer. Ignácio Alva Meneses.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This work seeks to analyze the continuities and discontinuities on the landscapes occupied by ancient Moche (an archaeological culture which flourished on the north coast of the central Andes between the first and eighth centuries) and contemporary populations. We intend to refine the discussion about the effectiveness and limitations of the ecotopes concept –...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Annabelle Lewis.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Geospatial analysis has much to offer historic cemetery archaeology. Recognizing the lived-in landscapes past people moved within through geospatial analysis allows us to visualize historic cemeteries more holistically and recognize their important roles as sites for social and economic interactions at multiple scales. This paper follows the author’s...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Antoine Dorison. Gregory Pereira. Marion Forest.

Thirty years ago, investigations in the city of Las Milpillas in the Malpaís of Zacapu, provided unprecedented insights on the origins of Late Postclassic tarascan social organization. One was the highlighting of a unique kind of urban organization upon lava flows ; as in all four tarascan cities of the Malpaís. Yet, unlike its counterparts, Las Milpillas specificity resides in the fact that a site portion lies upon older volcanics, providing arable lands at hand for the city dwellers to use....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chelsea Fisher.

Tzacauil is a small archaeological site in the hinterlands of Yaxuná, a major center in the central Yucatán region of the northern Maya lowlands. Excavations of Tzacauil’s nine house groups suggest that a community formed here twice: first during the Late Formative period (250 BCE – 250 CE) and again in the Terminal Classic period (700 – 1100 CE). Both of these occupations coincide with population peaks at nearby Yaxuná. Judging by the ample open spaces surrounding the site’s house groups,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Samuel Duwe. Kurt Anschuetz.

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. Pueblo worlds are remarkably similar, yet completely distinct. This paradox has challenged Southwestern anthropologists: how do Pueblo people, from Hopi to Taos, share similar worldviews and beliefs, but maintain unique histories of their paths of becoming? Elsie Clews Parsons and Edward Dozier characterized Pueblo...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Patrick Mullins. Amedeo Sghinolfi. Dana Bardolph. Elvis Monzon.

This is an abstract from the "After the Feline Cult: Social Dynamics and Cultural Reinvention after Chavín" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Following the dusk of Chavín, the traditional narrative for the Virú and Moche Valleys—as well as many parts of the Northern Andes—has been one of conflict and upheaval. Though the late Early Horizon (~500–200 BCE) and Early Intermediate period (~200 BCE–600 CE) landscapes in these areas surely saw an explosion...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sharon DeWitte.

This is an abstract from the "Living and Dying in 19th-Century Farming Communities During Westward Expansion, from New England to the Mountain West" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Numerous studies of 20th- and 21st-century populations have produced evidence of a health-promoting effect of marriage. Fewer studies have examined this effect in older historical populations. In an effort to contribute to our understanding of the potentially...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Susan Ryan.

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 Hampton Pueblo is an ancestral site located in modern-day southwest Colorado and dating to the Pueblo I though Pueblo III periods (A.D. 750-1300). With over 100 kivas, 600 surface rooms, one great kiva, and a road, this village is one of the largest and longest occupied in the central Mesa Verde region. Located near a large seep spring, deep...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sonia Alconini.

The Kallawaya region was an important imperial breadbasket of the Collasuyu, located to the east of the Titicaca basin. Formed by a set of narrow temperate valleys, this region was a natural corridor that led to Apolo and the Mojos savannas to the north, and to the east to the tropical Yunga mountains. Because of its marked altitudinal variation, this region was suitable for pastoralism, the production of corn and coca, and farther east, the exploitation of gold mines. The Inkas at their arrival...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hannah Mattson.

This is an abstract from the "Field Houses and Traditional Agricultural Landscapes of the Northern US Southwest" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Between 2012 and 2024, portions of a large parcel of private land near Placitas, New Mexico, were investigated as part of four seasons of the University of New Mexico field school and several CRM projects. This area, located south of Tonque Pueblo along the eastern Sandia foothills, was found to contain a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elise Laugier.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Dryland regions—arid to sub-humid environments—are where the needs of the past, present, and future intersect, creating tensions between intensifying agricultural practices and cultural heritage protection. Currently, drylands support 18.5% of global agriculture and nearly 2 billion people, while facing challenges from growing urban populations,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Forrest Follett. Adam Barnes. Katie Simon. Carla Klehm.

This paper is an effort to create a predictive model for archaeological sites in an area of Eastern Botswana. With a rather arid climate, much of Botswana’s ground surface (and archaeology) is easily visible to airborne and spaceborne sensors. Without sufficient training data for supervised classification, an iterative spectral clustering method was used to group spectrally similar pixels from multispectral imagery into a large number of spectrally distinct but unknown classes. By visually...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Seth Quintus. Jeffrey Clark.

Star mounds, named for their star-like shape, have been an enigmatic feature class in the Samoan Archipelago. Researchers have posited several potential functions for these monumental architectural features, including grave and territorial markers, but their primary function appears to have been as surfaces for pigeon catching. But, excavations of these features have been few and data limited. Here, we review old as well as recent data on star mounds relating to their physical attributes (size,...