Monte Alban’s Main Plaza: New Perspectives Gained Through Geophysical Prospection and Digital Mapping
Author(s): Marc Levine; Alex E. Badillo; Scott Hammerstedt; Amanda Regnier; Marcus Winter
Year: 2018
Summary
Ongoing scholarly debate concerning the function, meaning, and history of Monte Albán’s Main Plaza have important ramifications for our understanding of sociopolitical, economic, and religious life at the Zapotec capital. Although previous investigations have targeted many of the buildings that surround the plaza, none have focused explicitly on the plaza itself. This paper presents the preliminary results of the Proyecto Geofísico de Monte Albán (PGMA), a non-invasive study of the entire Main Plaza utilizing multiple geophysical prospection techniques, as well as microtopographic mapping via drone-aided photogrammetry and a robotic total station.
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Monte Alban’s Main Plaza: New Perspectives Gained Through Geophysical Prospection and Digital Mapping. Marc Levine, Alex E. Badillo, Scott Hammerstedt, Amanda Regnier, Marcus Winter. Presented at The 82nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Washington, DC. 2018 ( tDAR id: 444907)
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Keywords
General
digital archaeology
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Highland Mesoamerica: Classic
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Monumentality
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Remote Sensing/Geophysics
Geographic Keywords
Mesoamerica: Oaxaca or Southern Highlands
Spatial Coverage
min long: -98.679; min lat: 15.496 ; max long: -94.724; max lat: 18.271 ;
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 22549