Transcending Transects: Research Contexts for a Landscape View of Highway Corridor Archaeology in California.

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Byways to the Past: An American Highway Archaeology Symposium" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Archaeology within highway corridors is too easily hampered by an inability to adequately address bigger research issues due to the narrow slices of landscapes crossed, access restrictions, project-specific limitations on funding and focus of attention on isolated or smaller pieces of larger archaeological resources. Research contexts developed for the California Department of Transportation (CALTRANS) attempt to broaden the scope of research concerns addressed, provide methodological guidance and add value to the investigations undertaken here. District-scale geoarchaeological sensitivity models, a regionally focused research design for the San Francisco Bay Area, and a bedrock milling feature thematic context offer examples of ways to address resources that may be hidden, disturbed, or otherwise dismissed due to a lack of appropriate contextual scale. Highlights are presented with added emphasis on tribal cultural values and concerns not readily addressed by more narrowly focused compliance studies.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Byways to the Past: An American Highway Archaeology Symposium   •
• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 23681