Survey in the Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument: Emerging Insights from Growing Geodatabase- and Landscape-Based Approaches

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This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

EnviroSystems Management has surveyed over 30,000 acres and recorded over 1,000 sites in the Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument. The company's growing geodatabase is beginning to illustrate interesting settlement pattern changes from the Late Archaic to the late Pueblo II period. While insights garnered by inquiry into geodatabases offers a high resolution of comparative datasets, working and living in such a remote areas also offers a unique experience of cultural landscapes and evokes the significance of place. CRM pedestrian survey of large landscapes such as those in the Monument present unique opportunities for professional archaeologists to participate in land management grounded in positivist conceptions of data, as well as engage in landscape based approaches. In this paper I will highlight interesting insights emerging from out geodatabase coupled with on the ground experiences of the cultural landscapes we have surveyed.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 90th Annual Meeting, Denver, CO (2025)   •
• SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts

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Abstract Id(s): 52941