Detecting Anthropogenic Earthworks in the North River Valley of Northeast Missouri via Lidar
Author(s): Jonathan Schaefer
Year: 2023
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.
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Detecting Anthropogenic Earthworks in the North River Valley of Northeast Missouri via Lidar. Jonathan Schaefer. Presented at The 88th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. 2023 ( tDAR id: 474458)
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Keywords
General
Landscape Archaeology
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Mounds
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Remote Sensing/Geophysics
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Woodland
Geographic Keywords
North America: Midwest
Spatial Coverage
min long: -103.975; min lat: 36.598 ; max long: -80.42; max lat: 48.922 ;
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 35955.0