Landscape Archaeology (Other Keyword)
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Throughout history, societies have had a particular worldview and a sense of what’s sacred, so that in each time and space they have expressed in different ways their own awareness of an origin and a destiny. The objective of this paper is to describe and to analyze the sacred Inka landscape in one of the southernmost "New Cuzco" capital of the Kollasuyu: The Shincal of Quimivil, located in the province of Catamarca, Northwestern Argentina. The mythical stories of the Inkas tell that there was a...
Inscribing and Reinscribing Place: The Persistence of Hot Spring Sites in the Northern New Mexico Landscape (2018)
This paper examines the ways in which humans create meaningful and enduring relationships with significantly unique environmental locations through a discussion of hot springs in the Rio Grande Gorge and Taos plateau. These springs demonstrate continual persistence as meaningful sites of visitation, of marking, and of cultural importance for those dwelling in the Taos area from the archaic to the contemporary. Through an exploration of the markings and constructions around the springs, I hope to...
Institutionalized a Sacred Place: Social Logic and Transformation of Space in an Early Northern Thai Cultural Landscape (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Early archaeological sites of Wiang Nong Lom and Chiang Saen in Northern Thailand appear to have a variety of their spatial pattern than the sites in the later periods (late 14th century). Although temples were constructed follow the state-sponsored Buddhist ideology, some building patterns in many early archaeological sites vary from location to location,...
Integrating Aerial Kite and Drone Imagery into the Moche Valley Settlement Database (MVSD) (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster presents the results of 5 seasons (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2022) of aerial kite and drone imagery from the Moche Valley and the integration of these data into the Moche Valley Settlement Database (MVSD). The MVSD is a collaborative initiative that is synthesizing Prehistoric (~10,000 BCE – 1500s CE) and Viceroyalty Era (1500s – 1800s CE)...
Integrating Archaeological and Historical Information to Identify Agricultural Features and Reconstruct Traditional Hawaiian Irrigation Networks in windward Kohala, Hawai‘i Island (2017)
Where landscapes have been modified by recent development, identifying surface archaeological features requires a different analytical approach. In windward Kohala, Hawai‘i Island, after more than 150 years of land conversion to commercial agriculture features that comprised traditional Hawaiian irrigation agriculture have been mostly obscured. To address this, several sources of information were collected including historic documents and maps, previous and recent archaeological surveys, and...
Interpreting a Subterranean Feature at Chichen Itza (2021)
This is an abstract from the "The Subterranean in Mesoamerican Indigenous Culture and Beyond" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During the 2019 season, a subterranean feature was excavated atop a pyramidal structure in the pueblo of San Felipe Nuevo, 839 m northeast of the El Castillo pyramid at Chichen Itza. The entrance is a round, finely finished, chultun-like entrance 53 cm in diameter. The walls are plastered, which suggests its function as a...
Interpreting the Past: How Transdisciplinary Research Advances the Field of Maya Archaeology (2023)
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. Human-nature relationships are key to understanding past societal developments. The value of conducting transdisciplinary research, involving new methods and other investigators, has become increasingly apparent as the field of Maya Studies has matured. While there has continued to be a significant increase in the...
Introduction to the Lower Belize River Watershed: A Deep History of Human-Environment Interaction (2021)
This is an abstract from the "Archaeology and the History of Human-Environment Interaction in the Lower Belize River Watershed" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper situates the results of 10 years of archaeological investigations by the Belize River East Archaeology (BREA) project, beginning more than 10,000 years ago in the preceramic period. We have also documented ample Maya occupation, including their settlement, production activities,...
Investigating Prehistoric Land Use History and Place Use Variability with Low Density Surface Scatters of Stone Artifacts in the Oglala National Grassland, Northwestern Nebraska (2018)
The USDA Forest Service National Grassland System consists of 20 individual native and restored prairie grasslands. While the scale of these areas allows landscape survey, this ‘sea of grass’ is a challenge for artifact and feature discovery due to vegetation cover, meaning archaeologists must use surface visibility created by erosion, deflation, and other natural and anthropogenic processes. Here we report on a collaborative student-training project between the Forest Service and the University...
Investigating the Spatial and Behavioral Factors that Influence Regional Lithic Assemblage Variability (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Lithic scatters are commonly the most abundant site type recorded in regional archaeological surveys. Paradoxically, lithic scatters are widely considered typologically homogeneous and are typically classified as limited-activity sites. These practices have contributed to the view that lithic scatters are of limited research value in understanding the origins...
"Is This A Thing?": Opportunities and Results of the Rock Art Ranch NSF-REU Program (2018)
From 2011-2016 Dr. E. Charles Adams and Richard Lange have organized and directed the Rock Art Ranch field school, a National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates (NSF-REU) Program from 2013-2016. Rock Art Ranch, located just southeast of Winslow, Arizona contains evidence of use/occupation from Paleoindian to Pueblo periods, and yielded a wealth of data that has inspired dissertations, masters theses, senior theses, and student projects. As a participant of the NSF-REU at...
Islands on the Plains Revisited: GIS-Based Predictive Models of Playa Use on the Southern High Plains (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Landscape Archaeology is useful in providing a framework for understanding human movements across various environments. Such an approach relates landscapes as they evolved through time to settlement patterns of human groups occupying the area. Cultural behaviors can then be linked to physiographic and topographic features using such an approach. On the...
Jaketown Re-Revisited (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the summer of 2018, we reopened two previously excavated units at the Jaketown site in Humphries County, Mississippi. We collected geoarchaeological and paleoethnobotanical data from basal Poverty Point contexts. These deposits, dating to the Late Archaic (ca. 4000-3000 cal B.P.), represent the earliest and most intensive occupation at Jaketown. Analyses of...
Just Up the Hill and Not Down the Line: Ancestral Pueblo Obsidian Use at the Source (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Archaeologies of the Eastern Jemez Mountain Range and the Pajarito Plateau: Interagency Collaboration for Management of Cultural Landscapes" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The rich obsidian deposits found in the Jemez Mountains were utilized by all peoples in prehistory, including the Ancestral Pueblo groups who called the mountains home. For most of the geochemically-distinct geologic deposits of obsidian originating...
The Kambos project. Remote sensing applications and archaeological approaches for the reconstruction of the disappeared cultural record of the Western Thessalian plain. (2017)
The Thessalian Plain has been at the fore of Neolithic research in Greece and Europe since early 20th century exploration in the area which documented an intensively occupied landscape during both Prehistoric and Historical periods. Despite the Thessalian Plain's potential for archaeological research, western Thessaly has provided scarce evidence of occupation. This might be related to the extensive modifications it has been subjected to during the last 45 years. These have rendered the Western...
Kaolin as the Stuff of Politics among Recuay Communities? Applying Political Geology to Ancient Andean Ceramics (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Political Geologies in the Ancient and Recent Pasts: Ontology, Knowledge, and Affect" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent scholarship argues that the knowledge and use of earthly materials is a power-laden field that is relationally distributed across everyday activities. This paper draws on these theoretical discussions in “political geology” to grapple with three interpretations for prehispanic Recuay kaolin...
La Cuernavilla, Guatemala: A Fortress and Its Environs (2023)
This is an abstract from the "La Cuernavilla, Guatemala: A Maya Fortress and Its Environs" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. La Cuernavilla is a recently discovered Classic Maya fortress in the central Petén of Guatemala. Situated between the major ancient kingdom of Tikal and the minor city-state capital of El Zotz, the site has a complex history tied into the broader geopolitics of the Buenavista Valley, which it overlooks. This talk introduces the...
La escultura monumental Inka: Chinkana Grande y Teteqaqa, Cusco, Perú (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. En las sociedades andinas como la Inka, la preocupación de las poblaciones agrícolas por el agua para sus cultivos conllevo a realizar dos tipos de obras: las obras hidráulicas que suministraban del líquido vital y las obras artísticas realizadas en las nacientes del agua donde coexistía un afloramiento rocoso de dimensiones monumentales. Estas obras...
The Land of Fantastic Treasures and How to Get There: Modeling Routes to Punt (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The name Punt, the fabulous land of the gods, is known since the discovery and excavation of the temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari. The queen undertook a commercial expedition to the land of Punt to collect precious materials to carry back to Egypt. Such resources were crucial for performing religious ceremonies and funerary rituals. Although the...
Land Use at the Necks of the Moche and Virú Valleys on the North Coast of Peru (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster discusses preliminary dissertation fieldwork at Cerro Oreja and Galindo in the Moche Valley and Castillo de Tomaval in the Virú Valley. These sites were chosen for their location at the neck of each valley and their heavy occupations during the Early Intermediate Period (c. 1 CE – c. 800 CE). This location serves as an inflection point between...
Land Use in the Burro Creek-Pine Creek Survey Area based on Ceramic Analysis (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Community Matters: Enhancing Student Learning Opportunities through the Development of Community Partnerships" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. One hundred and seventy sites were identified during the Burro Creek-Pine Creek (BCPC) Survey conducted by Pima Community College between 2003 and 2018. The BCPC project area is located on BLM land within Yavapai County, Arizona, north and east of the Burro Creek wilderness, in...
Land Use in the High Desert of Northwestern Nevada: Analyzing Settlement Patterns of the Bare Allotment (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Mobility has long been seen as a key strategy for foragers in marginal environments, where movement around the landscape sought to take advantage of natural resources that often have narrow windows of availability. While mobility has often focused solely on obsidian conveyance in the Great Basin, ethnographic accounts suggest that food resources were more...
Land, Labor, and Status: A perspective from Colonial Cusco, Peru. (2017)
Access to land is an important marker of status in agrarian societies. During the Andean Late Horizon (c.1400-1532), land differences grounded status distinctions: nobles developed monumental estate farms and kin-oriented communities collectively administered patchwork fields. Under the Spanish colonial system (1532-1824) access to land and labour came to differentiate status in new ways. Spaniards appropriated labor and property, while indigenous nobility contested Spanish rule and staked new...
Lande: The Calais "Jungle" and Beyond (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Archaeologies of Immigration and Refugee Resettlement" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This talk introduces recent research for the current exhibition at the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford looking at the 2015 refugee crisis in Europe through the lens of a contemporary archaeology of the Calais landscape, with special attention to the site of the Calais "Jungle." The talk explores: (1) the material, visual and digital...
Landscape and Formative Households at Tzacauil and Yaxuná, Yucatán (2016)
A population boom during the Late Formative period (ca. 250 BCE-250 CE) corresponded with the expansion of permanent, aggregated settlements across Mesoamerica. In central Yucatán, Yaxuná was a centralizing focus during the Formative, yet it was not the only place that attracted settlers – so did the nearby, smaller site of Tzacauil. In this dynamic time, what was the relationship between a large center like Yaxuná and its humbler neighbors like Tzacauil? Was Tzacauil an autonomous hamlet, or is...