Landscape Archaeology (Other Keyword)
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This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Evidence of a large site in southern Monterey County, California, is likely the ethnohistoric village of Assil, chiefly capital of a district of the same name. Part of the site is submerged by the waters of Lake San Antonio. The site played a crucial role in an 1818 battle between the Yokuts invaders and the Spanish with their Salinan allies. The village...
Rediscovering the San Martín Pajapan Volcano in the Gulf Coast of México: An Analysis of its Archaeological Context (2018)
San Martín Pajapan is one of the most important and prominent volcanos that constitute Los Tuxtlas mountain system of the Gulf Coast of México. From the Preshipanic period to the present time the San Martín Pajapan volcano has been considered a natural place of the landscape with cultural significance, which is indicated by the presence of archaeological remains on its summit. The most remarkable archaeological element of this volcano is a monumental Olmec sculpture, which iconographic...
Referencing the Archaic on a Woodland Landscape on Florida’s Northern Gulf Coast (2018)
During a period of uniformity in ceremonial practices, coastal dwellers of the Lower Suwannee diverged from the architectural norm. Although these coastal people were under the larger influence of Woodland-period traditions, their construction efforts continued to follow ancestral ideals in the form shell rings and ridges. Here I argue that differences in terraforming practices along Florida’s Northern Gulf Coast were a citation to a revered and observed local history formulated by natural...
Regional Analysis in Perspective: An Epistemological Assessment for Paleo-Inuit Archaeology (2018)
The increasing accessibility of archaeological data from the Canadian Arctic has promoted a recent influx of macro-scale analyses. Drawing insights from our ongoing research project in the Foxe Basin region, we address some challenges regarding the synthesis of archaeological information, especially as it pertains to Paleo-Inuit studies. We discuss the importance of data quality and address issues of variability in occupation density, duration, and seasonality, both at the household and...
Regular Irregularity: Archaeological Evidence at Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest for Intersecting Garden Traditions (2018)
The geometric structure of 17th through 19th century designed landscapes in Virginia has been well documented archaeologically. The composition of elements in these landscapes shows how their designers manipulated geometric forms, architectural conventions, and standardized measurements to impose order in the garden. By the end of the 18th century fashionable American gardens tended towards irregular picturesque compositions, however the arrangement of individual garden elements to achieve that...
Remote Sensing and Dynamic, Unique Landscape Perspectives (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Living Landscapes: Disaster, Memory, and Change in Dynamic Environments " session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Remote sensing has been fundamental since the establishment of landscape archaeology, from capturing site layout to aiding in the synthesis of human-environmental relationships. Geospatial technology and its analytical software continue to advance at an accelerated pace and are considered almost integral to...
Remote Sensing Methods for Investigating Modern-Day Land-Use Intensity in Archaeological Landscapes: A Case Study from the Sinis Archaeological Project, Sardinia (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Many archaeological surveys are conducted in landscapes that are today being actively used for agricultural production. Farming practices, such as plowing, are in fact often essential for exposing and bringing to the surface formerly buried archaeological materials—the study of which allows archaeologists to develop regional-scale assessments of where...
Remote Sensing of Chacoan Roads in the Middle San Juan Region (2021)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster demonstrates recent applications of remotely sensed data to track Chacoan roads in the Middle San Juan Region, specifically the use of high resolution (1 meter) Digital Elevation Models obtained from Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) data and multispectral imagery obtained from the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission Reflectance Radiometer...
Remote Sensing of Constructed Landscapes in Northern Guatemala (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Innovations and Transformations in Mesoamerican Research: Recent and Revised Insights of Ancestral Lifeways" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Maya sites of San Bartolo and Xultun, Guatemala, provide compelling evidence for ancient Maya agricultural interventions and shifting perspectives about the regional ecological landscape. The first line of evidence is visual: murals there catalog political and religious...
Remote Sensing’s Capacity to Identify Shell Deposits at the Silver Glen Springs Complex, Florida (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 fundamentally directed towards understanding the intersection of natural and constructed places, and their reciprocal influence on history. Mounds constructed of earth or shell have been the predominant focus of Southeastern archaeologist for generations. Subsequently, the spaces outside the bounds of mounded places have not been...
Resistance, Refuge, and Retaliation: The Use of Caves during the Spanish Civil War in Asturias (2015)
During the 2014 field season of the Archaeology of Violence in Asturias Project, a survey of caves in the Spanish province of Asturias was undertaken with the aim to document the usage of these subterranean shelters during the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) and their continued importance as vital landscape features in the guerrilla resistance movement (1939-65). These caves-- as well as other features such as roads, valleys, industrial buildings, and villages-- have long been ignored in...
Resource, Transportation and the Political Landscape of the Chinese Bronze Age (2018)
The political landscape of the Chinese Bronze Age was characterized by controlling the key resource situated in the distant regions from the Luoyang Basin. The study of key natural resources and their transportation networks should therefore be an important facet of research into state formation during the Chinese Bronze Age. The extraction and transportation of key resource, and its relationship with the cultural landscape addresses the basic political framework of the states in Early China....
Restoration Archaeology Report: Archaeological Investigations in the first terrace at Mount Clare Mansion, Baltimore, Maryland, (18BC106) (1987)
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Restoration Archaeology Report: Archaeological Investigations in the forecourt at Mount Clare Mansion, Baltimore, Maryland (18BC10H) (1986)
This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us at comments@tdar.org.
Resurrecting Lost Landscapes: Global-Scale Archaeological Prospection Using Cold War-Era CORONA Satellite Imagery (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Archaeological Vision in the Age of Big Data" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Declassified CORONA spy satellite imagery, collected from 1960-1972, has proven to be a uniquely valuable resource for discovery, mapping, and interpretation of archaeological landscapes. These high-resolution, stereo photographic images preserve a picture of sites and cultural landscape features that have been impacted or destroyed by...
Revealing the Local: A Look Inwards at the Archaeology of Southeastern Arabia (2018)
Rita Wright’s valuable contributions to the archaeology of urbanism and holistic, multi-scalar approaches to settlement patterns is well-attested in her survey work along the Beas River Valley. This paper picks up these themes in a different region of the interconnected Bronze Age world that has been the focus of her research—ancient Oman. Known as Magan in Mesopotamian texts, a considerable amount of research has been conducted on Bronze Age Oman by focusing on its external connections to...
Revealing Woodland Period Landscape Use at Rat Island, Hamilton Ontario Using Itrax™ XRF Soil Chemical Analysis (2018)
With its ability to identify slight changes in chemical signatures from small easily obtained soil cores, Itrax™ core scanning provides an unparalleled opportunity to understand anthropogenic impacts on soils and explore the history of landscapes. Located in Lake Ontario less than 500 meters off the shore of Cootes Paradise, Rat Island (AhGx-7) enabled the integration of multi-element x-ray fluorescence analyses into a traditional excavation program. This small island, initially surveyed and...
Revisiting Terrestrial And Maritime Cultural Landscapes In Coastal Sierra Leone (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Maritime Archeology of the Slave Trade: Past and Present Work, and Future Prospects", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper will assess the current state of the maritime and cultural landscapes of the region from a historical archaeological perspective and highlight their potential for present and future research. It centers on the spatial and material practices on Bunce Island and related trade sites in...
Revisiting the Mortuary Function of Chultunes (2018)
Excavations at Mul Ch’en Witz uncovered a series of chultunes just below the escarpment on which the ceremonial core of La Milpa is located. Of the six chultunes identified during the 2017 field season, Chultun 3 has produced the most cultural material. In addition to several complete vessels excavated, human bone fragments were recovered. The remains, found next to the chultun capstone, revive questions surrounding the mortuary function of chultunes. Dennis Puleston, among others, considered...
Rice Cultivation and the Craft of the State (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Crafting Culture: Thingselves, Contexts, Meanings" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. 19th century oral histories from the highlands of Madagascar traced a history of sovereignty and governance through a narrative of major landscape transformation. The construction of dikes, canals and rice fields around the capital city was figured as part of the work of building the kingdom. This was an expansive and expanding craftwork...
The Rings of Poverty Point, UNESCO World Heritage Site: A Geophysical Investigation. (2018)
The concentric ring features at the Poverty Point World Heritage site are monumental structures a kilometer and a half in diameter at their widest point. Though these impressive structures went unnoticed for many years after the identification of the area’s other archaeological resources, they are now recognized as a unique attribute of an already remarkable site. Here, we use multiple geophysical methods to attempt to characterize the construction of these features. Initially assumed to have...
Risk and Resilience in the Dynamic Lower Lacantun River Landscape (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Dynamic Frontiers in the Archaeology of Chiapas" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Maya have inhabited diverse environments in southern Mesoamerica, typified by marked seasonal contrasts between wet and dry periods. Access to water as a resource for agriculture and transportation varied spatially and seasonally for Maya communities, with scholarly and public attention often focusing on the challenges posed by...
Ritual and Movement in the Preclassic Hinterlands of the Mopan River Valley (2021)
This is an abstract from the "The Preclassic Landscape in the Mopan Valley, Belize" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Evidence from the Mopan River valley continues to clarify the nature and extent of Preclassic occupation of the region. The hinterland community of San Lorenzo sits directly across the river from both Xunantunich and Actuncan, sites with substantial Preclassic construction and ritual use. Using data gathered from this ancient...
Ritual Movement on Chacoan Roads: Insights from Recent Fieldwork, Ethnography, and Cross-Cultural Comparison (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper highlights some results of my four year fieldwork project to document monumental roads throughout the Greater Chaco Landscape and on Navajo Nation in particular. I place particular emphasis on the question of why and how people moved along Chacoan roads as a dimension of ritual practice. Using a combination of LiDAR, drone-based SfM...
“A River Runs through It”: Reinterpreting Late Woodland Settlement Patterns in the Upper Delaware Valley (2021)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Rivers are important natural boundary markers that, in modern contexts, commonly form political boundaries and, in archaeological contexts, are commonly used to delineate culture areas. In eastern North America, river drainages are often used for both purposes, which has impacted how archaeologists interpret the archaeological record. In the history of the...