Geospatial Analysis of Material Culture in the Hinterlands in Northwestern Belize
Author(s): Jason Laugesen; Marisol Cortes-Rincon; Ravyn Torres
Year: 2021
Summary
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
The Belize archaeology field school, Dos Hombres to Gran Cacao (DH2GC), has been active since 2009, gathering cultural remains from different excavations. Using ArcGIS, the excavations and associated ceramic artifacts can be used for geospatial analyses of human settlement, occupation, and trading patterns. The general goal of the project is to create a geodatabase of all of the artifactual remains excavated in the project area, which can be expanded with future project research. Data was collected in the field using tape and compass, GPS units, a total mapping station, and an aircraft for light detection and ranging (LiDAR). The implications of using an interdisciplinary approach of archaeology and geospatial analysis to study settlement patterns in ancient Mesoamerica include identifying new patterns and locating new settlements.
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Geospatial Analysis of Material Culture in the Hinterlands in Northwestern Belize. Jason Laugesen, Marisol Cortes-Rincon, Ravyn Torres. Presented at The 86th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. 2021 ( tDAR id: 467774)
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Keywords
Geographic Keywords
Mesoamerica: Maya lowlands
Spatial Coverage
min long: -94.197; min lat: 16.004 ; max long: -86.682; max lat: 21.984 ;
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 33501