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.

Cite this Record

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)

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