GIS Analysis of Environmental Change during the Paleoindian Period in Central Texas

Summary

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

With the advent of GIS (Geographic Information Systems) technologies, GIS has allowed archaeologists to ask new questions of the archaeological record. The state of Texas has one of the richest archaeological records in North America from decades of work by professional, academic, and avocational archaeologists. Due to Texas’ rich archaeology record, ample archaeological site data is available to utilize with GIS data to ask new questions of the state’s archaeological record. In particular this research will utilize novel GIS methods and techniques to demonstrate environmental change during the Paleoindian period to understand environmental change and its impact on human culture, movement of peoples, and site selection. Although Paleoindian sites in Central Texas are fairly rare, these analyses hope to illuminate patterns of Paleoindians peoples movement and settlement to better pinpoint potential Paleoindian sites for future archaeological endeavors.

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): 37154.0