Journal
JOURNAL OF FIELD ARCHAEOLOGY
Volume 45, Issue -, Pages S27-S38Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/00934690.2020.1713435
Keywords
Lidar; Landscape Archaeology; Great Lakes; Remote Sensing; Maximum Entropy; Food Storage
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- National Science Foundation [1659000]
- Direct For Social, Behav & Economic Scie
- Division Of Behavioral and Cognitive Sci [1659000] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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The concept of big data is nothing new to archaeologists; we have long made a profession of collecting, organizing, and analyzing a surfeit of data describing everything from minute artifact attributes to landscape-wide environmental characteristics. Regardless of this abundance, we have and continue to confront the self-same problem inherent in big data, namely what analyses will actually help us use these data to advance understandings of past human behaviors. With burgeoning remote sensing technologies archaeology faces a new wave of big data, but how do these techniques improve our ability to make the inferential leaps to bridge the present to the past and bring new insights forward? We argue that, to date, remote sensing techniques (satellite, aerial, and unpersonned aerial imagery) have been applied somewhat narrowly to mostly high-resolution site-based research in archaeology. To truly unleash the capabilities of these techniques, and expand our capacity for wrangling big data to more fully investigate past patterns, we need to conduct iterative analyses incorporating remotely sensed data on bounded archaeological sites and regions and unbounded landscapes. A case study from the Late Precontact (ca. A.D. 1200-1600) period in the northern Great Lakes of North America detailing how such an iterative approach can be initiated is explored here.
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