Adventures in Spatial Archaeometry: A Survey of Recent High-Resolution Survey and Measurement Applications

Part of: Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Adventures in Spatial Archaeometry: A Survey of Recent High-Resolution Survey and Measurement Applications" at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Geospatial technology is an increasingly integral component in the measurement and analysis of time, space, and form. The democratization of methods in high-density survey and measurement (HDSM), such as photogrammetry and laser scanning, creates new opportunities and challenges alike. Keeping abreast of rapid advances requires a regular survey of applications. Emerging, early career scholars are often among the most innovative of users. SAROI, the Spatial Archaeology Residential and Online Institute, an NEH-funded initiative hosted by the Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies at the University of Arkansas, has provided training to 19 emerging scholars in HDSM. This session showcases the multiple ways that SAROI fellows engage with spatial data to analyze landscapes, sites, features, and objects. Fellowship projects address a wide range of time periods and are unified not just through the use of HDSM techniques but through their commitment to highlighting marginalized histories and through research and representation in the Global South. Applications of HDSM discussed in the session include 3D modeling using sUAS sensors, photogrammetry, and microCT, satellite and aerial imagery analysis, and geospatial database creation and analysis.

Other Keywords
Historic • Landscape Archaeology • Digital Archaeology: GIS • Digital Archaeology: Photogrammetry • digital archaeology • Agriculture • Historical Archaeology • Mounds • Mobility • Archives

Geographic Keywords
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  • Aerial Drone Photogrammetry of Aboveground Mortuary Architecture in the Amazonian Andes (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Daniela Raillard Arias.

    This is an abstract from the "Adventures in Spatial Archaeometry: A Survey of Recent High-Resolution Survey and Measurement Applications" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. For centuries, Indigenous Andean communities known as the Chachapoya placed their ancestral dead in aboveground architecture across the landscape of the Amazonian Andes, in what is now northeastern Peru. The study of Chachapoya ancestral sites presents a series of ethical and...

  • From "Gray Literature" to "Big Data": Synthesizing Archaeological Data in Washington, DC (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer Lupu.

    This is an abstract from the "Adventures in Spatial Archaeometry: A Survey of Recent High-Resolution Survey and Measurement Applications" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The vast array of technical reports produced through cultural resources management (CRM) archaeology are sometimes referred to as “gray literature,” due to their limited reuse after the project is completed. However, archaeologists working in CRM excavate the majority of sites in...

  • From Bluffs to Floodplain: A Spatial Approach to Mississippian Communities in the Ozarks of Arkansas (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessica Kowalski.

    This is an abstract from the "Adventures in Spatial Archaeometry: A Survey of Recent High-Resolution Survey and Measurement Applications" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Mississippian (ca. AD 1000–1500) occupation of the Ozarks in Northwest Arkansas is known through few multiple-mound ceremonial centers in river valleys and from rockshelters along limestone bluff lines. Few permanent habitation sites are recorded, and understanding how sites...

  • Improving Understanding of the Location and Utility of Pueblo Gravel Mulch Fields Using Remote Sensing (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Kaitlyn Davis.

    This is an abstract from the "Adventures in Spatial Archaeometry: A Survey of Recent High-Resolution Survey and Measurement Applications" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this paper, I present the preliminary results of a study using remote sensing to document and better understand the functioning of Pueblo agricultural features. This study built on my dissertation research, which focused on recording and understanding precontact and historic...

  • Landscapes of Stone in Mauritius and Zanzibar (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Wolfgang Alders. Julia Jong Haines.

    This is an abstract from the "Adventures in Spatial Archaeometry: A Survey of Recent High-Resolution Survey and Measurement Applications" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Using archaeological and geospatial methods, we compare landscape modifications associated with the maintenance of the monocropping plantation orders under Omani, French, and British colonialism in nineteenth-century Zanzibar and Mauritius. How do similarities and differences in...

  • Mapping Marronnage: Creating, Managing, and Visualizing Archival Datasets (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Clay.

    This is an abstract from the "Adventures in Spatial Archaeometry: A Survey of Recent High-Resolution Survey and Measurement Applications" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the nineteenth century, captive Africans in Guyane, a French colony and overseas territory in northeastern South America, increasingly sought their own freedom leading up to definitive abolition in 1848. Colonial administrators recognized the practice as a problem and began...

  • MicroCT, Maternal Health, and Stress at the Beginning of Life (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only B Charles.

    This is an abstract from the "Adventures in Spatial Archaeometry: A Survey of Recent High-Resolution Survey and Measurement Applications" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In Winona LaDuke’s “All Our Relations,” the Mohawk midwife and environmental activist Katsi Cook declares that women are the first environment. Fetal growth and development correlate with the condition of that first environment. An infant skeleton with identifiable indicators of...

  • Modeling Mobility and Lithic Raw Material Transport in the Late Pleistocene along the Southern Coast of South Africa (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Sara Watson. Peiqi Zhang. Patricia McNeill. Katie Wyatt.

    This is an abstract from the "Adventures in Spatial Archaeometry: A Survey of Recent High-Resolution Survey and Measurement Applications" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Understanding how hunter-gatherer groups move around the landscape is essential for answering questions about human behavioral ecology and evolution of the social landscape. Lithic raw material proveniencing sheds light on how far people in the past were traveling for toolstone and...

  • Nuna Nalluituq / The Land Remembers: Spatial Technology and Community Engagement to Protect Alaska Native Heritage Landscapes (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Jonathan Lim.

    This is an abstract from the "Adventures in Spatial Archaeometry: A Survey of Recent High-Resolution Survey and Measurement Applications" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Southwest Alaska’s Yukon-Kuskokwim (YK) Delta, where two immense salmon-bearing rivers flow into the Bering Sea, is the ancestral homeland of the Yup’ik people. This biodiverse subarctic tundra wetland is a landscape in constant flux from the annual cycle of flooding, silting, and...

  • Remembering ichaskhah (Camp Creek): Low-Impact Methodologies for Documenting an Early Twentieth-Century Wichita Camp and Dance Ground in Oklahoma (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Brandi Bethke. Sarah Trabert. Gary McAdams.

    This is an abstract from the "Adventures in Spatial Archaeometry: A Survey of Recent High-Resolution Survey and Measurement Applications" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Wichita and Affiliated Tribes have a long history of occupation in Oklahoma. This includes evidence of both pre- and postcontact habitations along major and minor waterways near Anadarko, Oklahoma. Here Wichita peoples camped, built grass houses and arbors, and held social...

  • Using Digital Technologies to Enhance Public Interpretation and Increase Access at Booker T. Washington National Monument (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Kelly Goldberg. Kevin Fogle.

    This is an abstract from the "Adventures in Spatial Archaeometry: A Survey of Recent High-Resolution Survey and Measurement Applications" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The site of Booker T. Washington’s birth and enslavement in Hardy County, Virginia, has been honored since 1945 when the farm was purchased to serve both as a memorial and a school. Eventually incorporated into the National Park system in the 1950s, this site has been the focal...