Multiscale Data and the History of Human Development in the US Southwest

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Multiscale Data and the History of Human Development in the US Southwest" at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

It is increasingly clear that sustainable and inclusive human development is a primary challenge of our time. Most investigations of this process in sustainability science have assumed that human development began with the industrial revolution, but the archaeological record provides many examples of human development that proceeded in the absence of fossil fuel use. What does the archaeological record of the US Southwest reveal about the fundamental processes of sustainable and inclusive human development, and the specific ways Indigenous societies promoted climate adaptation? The papers in this session leverage cyberSW and SKOPE, an interoperable research infrastructure that integrates archaeological and paleoenvironmental data from across the greater US Southwest, to address these questions.