A Geospatial Analysis of Indigenous Habitation Sites 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.

In order to properly characterize and speculate about an ancient group and their apparent subsistence strategies, it is imperative to understand the landscape and regional ecology in which the group inhabited. The widespread adoption of Geographic Information Systems within archaeology has generated new avenues of research surrounding ancient human-environment interactions. Within Central Texas, the convergence of numerous unique physiographic regions and the vast archeological record developed over decades of research in the region both provide a unique setting to apply this technology. This research seeks to identify and analyze the defining characteristics of habitation sites throughout Central Texas in order to predict the location of undiscovered sites and help extrapolate as to why these locations were chosen. These analyses will combine archaeological, environmental, and historical geospatial data relevant to the unique time periods and locations of previously discovered archaeological sites. From this, key determinant features of indigenous habitation sites will be identified and used to help direct future survey efforts. These insights may also contextualize past findings and contribute to a more fully developed understanding of Indigenous groups across time periods.

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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Abstract Id(s): 37247.0