Landscape-Scale GIS and Multisensor Geophysics for Interpretation of the Civil War Battle at Pea Ridge, Arkansas

Summary

This is an abstract from the "New and Emerging Geophysical and Geospatial Research in the National Parks" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

This presentation highlights GIS and remote sensing components of a four-year project completed by the Arkansas Archeological Survey as part of a Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Units (CESU) program with Pea Ridge National Military Park and the National Park Service’s Midwest Archeological Center. The research was conducted to expand and detail interpretations of a major trans-Mississippi Civil War battle fought March 7 and 8, 1862. Hundreds of battle-related artifacts and multiple contemporaneous cultural features were discovered, excavated, catalogued, mapped, analyzed, and interpreted using a landscape-scale, GIS-informed methodology.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• New and Emerging Geophysical and Geospatial Research in the National Parks   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Record Identifiers

Abstract Id(s): 39588.0