Detecting Anthropogenic Earthworks in the North River Valley of Northeast Missouri via Lidar

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Lidar’s utility in detecting anthropogenic topographic features, especially those occurring in forested environments, is well established within the archaeological literature. Here, lidar data produced and made publicly available by the state is utilized in the detection of earthworks within the North River Valley, a relatively small tributary of the Mississippi River located in northeast Missouri that has received little prior archaeological attention. Remote-sensing methods coupled with targeted ground truthing have resulted in the identification of over 40 newly identified conical burial mounds indicative of a sustained late Archaic–Woodland period presence in the valley.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Record Identifiers

Abstract Id(s): 35955.0