Ancient Landscapes and Cosmic Cities out of Eurasia: Transdisciplinary Studies with New Lidar Mapping
Part of: Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Ancient Landscapes and Cosmic Cities out of Eurasia: Transdisciplinary Studies with New Lidar Mapping" at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
We search for models of distinctive human biocultural evolutionary processes through transdisciplinary studies of purely aboriginal complex societies that developed out of Eurasia for millennia, particularly in the New World. Since they formed independently without the influence of the Old World civilizations until European contact, we expect to extract evolving behavioral characteristics of Homo sapiens through time. We particularly focus on human’s uniquely developed cognitive systems through which we conceptualize, categorize, and often quantify time, space, nature, and societies (ourselves). We record ancient ritual centers and/or cities three-dimensionally with newly developed mapping systems to elucidate ideological, technological, and social advances as materialized. Combining detailed and precise maps created by drone-lidar, Slam-lidar, scanner, or photogrammetry devices, with archaeological information, we apply them to our enhanced archaeoastronomy programs to better understand how humans developed cognitive systems to meaningfully divide and quantify time and space, often in relation to astronomical movements creating calendar systems, and finally located the nature and societies in them. We hope to ambitiously discuss the themes with experts in brain sciences, evolutionary psychology, and astronomy, among other related natural and social sciences.
Other Keywords
Digital Archaeology: 3D Modeling •
Landscape Archaeology •
digital archaeology •
Highland Mesoamerica: Classic •
Ideology •
Architecture •
Astronomy •
LiDAR •
ontology •
Andes: Late Intermediate
Geographic Keywords
United Mexican States (Country) •
North America (Continent) •
Kyrgyz Republic (Country) •
Japan (Country) •
Asia (Continent) •
Mongolia (Country) •
Republic of India (Country) •
People's Republic of Bangladesh (Country) •
Democratic People's Republic of Korea (Country) •
Union of Myanmar (Country)
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Cosmology and Lunar Calendar of a Prehistoric Rice Farming Society in Japan: An Experimental Simulation with arcAstroVR (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "Ancient Landscapes and Cosmic Cities out of Eurasia: Transdisciplinary Studies with New Lidar Mapping" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In Japanese prehistory, the foraging of the Jomon economy was followed by the Yayoi period, which was based on rice cultivation and metal tools introduced from China. During the Yayoi period, social stratification developed, and small chiefdoms arose in western Japan. According to...
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The Lambayeque Political System Viewed from the Lidar Map of Sicán Archaeological Complex (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "Ancient Landscapes and Cosmic Cities out of Eurasia: Transdisciplinary Studies with New Lidar Mapping" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Lambayeque refers to the late prehispanic archaeological culture that emerged after the political demise of the preceding Moche Culture and reached its height of prosperity during the late tenth century, centering on a large city called Sicán on the Peruvian north coast. The Lambayeque...
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Materialization of Time, Space, Nature, and Societies Denoted by New Lidar Maps at Teotihuacan (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "Ancient Landscapes and Cosmic Cities out of Eurasia: Transdisciplinary Studies with New Lidar Mapping" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Primary archaeological data indicate that the current reconstruction of the city of Teotihuacan was apparently built with a master plan around AD 200. Three major monuments were harmoniously integrated into a rigorously calculated city layout with functional and/or symbolic units...
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New Perspectives of Monte Albán-Atzompa Complex through New Lidar Mapping Survey (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "Ancient Landscapes and Cosmic Cities out of Eurasia: Transdisciplinary Studies with New Lidar Mapping" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Monte Albán, the central mountain area in the Oaxaca Valley was largely modified around 500 BC and functioned as a ceremonial precinct and state headquarters for more than 1,300 years. As one of the objectives under the umbrella program of “Out of Eurasia,” we here explore the...
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Orientation of Tsukuriyama Kofun Tumulus: Examination from Lidar Survey (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "Ancient Landscapes and Cosmic Cities out of Eurasia: Transdisciplinary Studies with New Lidar Mapping" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Tsukuriyama Kofun in Okayama is a massive burial mound from the fifth century that spans over 350 m and ranks third-largest in Japan. The Okayama University team used lidar to survey the mound and integrated the data into arcAstroVR, a visualization software for archaeological...
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Theory, Strategies, Objectives, and Preliminary Results of Transdisciplinary Studies of Ancient Consciousness on Time and Space out of Eurasia (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "Ancient Landscapes and Cosmic Cities out of Eurasia: Transdisciplinary Studies with New Lidar Mapping" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Ancient consciousness may be a key concept to discern human biocultural evolutionary processes. We reassess how indigenous people out of Eurasia developed consciousness about time and space and created conceptual dividing apparatuses, like calendar systems. We begin with theoretical...