Geospatial Modeling of Regional Site Data

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Historical Archaeology of the Mid-Atlantic (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

Archaeologists collect and store a great deal of information from sites, but the underlying, non-agricultural data are not readily available to other researchers. Layers of information are contained in a loose web of paper forms, digital data spreadsheets or PDF files, if they can be accessed at all. We discuss a framework for making archaeological data available using a combination of spatial and tabular data that creates a powerful analytical tool to expand our understanding of the past. We demonstrate how the Smithsonian Environmental Archaeology Laboratory team pilots this concept as part of our Agricultural Land Study for late 19th-century Anne Arundel County, Maryland.

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• Society for Historical Archaeology 2021   •
• Historical Archaeology of the Mid-Atlantic (General Sessions)

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