Using Archaeogeophysical and 3D Laser Surveying to Visualize an Integrated Landscape

Summary

Archaeogeophysical and 3D laser scanning at the Old Fort Johnson National Landmark site in Fort Johnson, New York provides a case study for creation of an integrated landscape. The ability to digitally image above and below ground features creates a new way of visualizing an integrated landscape. Above ground remains of historic structures often appear out of their original context. Defensive elements, outbuildings, agricultural areas, ceremonial areas, walkways, and shape of the ground surface may be modified or removed. Evidence for these former features on the original landscape may appear in historic documents, artwork, photographs, collective memory, and beneath the subsurface. Archaeogeophysical survey, historic document research, and other archaeological methods have the ability to help us visualize the landscape in its original state, and address anthropological questions.

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This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Crowdsourcing, Co-Creation, and Collaboration through Virtual Curation   •
• Society for American Archaeology 80th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2015)

Keywords

Spatial Coverage