Human-Environment Relationships and Spatial Organization in the Nepeña Valley, Ancash Peru

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The built environment is not a simple, haphazardly constructed idea. The human condition and cultural components, combined with environmental factors have undoubtedly influenced the built environment situated within landscapes. Not only are these landscapes environmental, but also social. In addition, these landscapes are not static and are subject to change based on many factors including human to human interactions, human to environment interactions, and environmental processes. This investigation explores an ontological approach to landscape, movement and spatial organization. It uses ethnographic and geospatial approaches to explore interactions between humans, social, and environmental spaces. This study takes place in the Nepeña Valley in Ancash Peru, host to archaeological sites spanning from the Preceramic to Late Horizon. This work will focus on utilizing Geographic Information Systems and spatial analyses in order to discuss human-environment interactions through time and space taking advantage of several techniques such as ecological modeling, historical environmental datasets, and landscape models while considering the ontological approach when constructing datasets, defining significant variables, and interpreting data outputs.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Record Identifiers

Abstract Id(s): 40461.0