High-Resolution Landscape-Level Mapping in the Western Lagoon of Belize

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Archaeology and the History of Human-Environment Interaction in the Lower Belize River Watershed" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

During the summer of 2016, large-scale unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) mapping was conducted in the Western Lagoon near Crooked Tree, the largest inland perennial wetland in all of Belize. Our aim was to record a series of linear features in the wetlands that may represent ancient Maya canals and other features possibly related to transportation, irrigation, aquaculture, and agricultural production. The aerial survey, comprising over 44 km2, is the largest ever conducted in Belize with a UAV. The logistics of this large-scale aerial survey will be presented along with our preliminary findings and interpretations of these features. Excavations carried out in subsequent field seasons are aimed at testing some of these hypotheses.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Archaeology and the History of Human-Environment Interaction in the Lower Belize River Watershed   •
• Society for American Archaeology 86th Annual Meeting, Online (2021)

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Abstract Id(s): 32215