Space and Spatial Analysis in Archaeology
Spatial analysis is the archaeology of space and place and is concerned with the creation of a cultural landscape focusing on archaeoastronomy, geoarchaeology, and ancient landscapes. Incorporating emerging technology such as GPS positioning and new forms of diagnostic imaging, spatial analysis can enable scientists to study the wider landscape of ancient human settlements. The ability to peer through time and clearly view the distribution of settlements and particular landforms and to determine resource areas provides researchers with invaluable information regarding the social relations, economy, and ecology of any community in the distant past.

These papers were selected from the 34th annual Chacmool Archaeological Conference held at the University of Calgary and are designed to examine human interaction with the environment, both physically and cognitively.

1007427330
Space and Spatial Analysis in Archaeology
Spatial analysis is the archaeology of space and place and is concerned with the creation of a cultural landscape focusing on archaeoastronomy, geoarchaeology, and ancient landscapes. Incorporating emerging technology such as GPS positioning and new forms of diagnostic imaging, spatial analysis can enable scientists to study the wider landscape of ancient human settlements. The ability to peer through time and clearly view the distribution of settlements and particular landforms and to determine resource areas provides researchers with invaluable information regarding the social relations, economy, and ecology of any community in the distant past.

These papers were selected from the 34th annual Chacmool Archaeological Conference held at the University of Calgary and are designed to examine human interaction with the environment, both physically and cognitively.

65.0 In Stock
Space and Spatial Analysis in Archaeology

Space and Spatial Analysis in Archaeology

Overview

Spatial analysis is the archaeology of space and place and is concerned with the creation of a cultural landscape focusing on archaeoastronomy, geoarchaeology, and ancient landscapes. Incorporating emerging technology such as GPS positioning and new forms of diagnostic imaging, spatial analysis can enable scientists to study the wider landscape of ancient human settlements. The ability to peer through time and clearly view the distribution of settlements and particular landforms and to determine resource areas provides researchers with invaluable information regarding the social relations, economy, and ecology of any community in the distant past.

These papers were selected from the 34th annual Chacmool Archaeological Conference held at the University of Calgary and are designed to examine human interaction with the environment, both physically and cognitively.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780826340221
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Publication date: 07/01/2006
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 430
Product dimensions: 8.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 1.03(d)

About the Author

Elizabeth C. Robertson is in the University of Calgary's Ph.D. program in archaeology.


Jeffrey D. Seibert is in the University of Calgary's Ph.D. program in archaeology.


Deepika C. Fernandez holds a master's degree in archaeology from University of Calgary.


Marc U. Zender is a lecturer in anthropology at Harvard University.

Table of Contents

Preface
Kathryn V. Reese-Taylor

Acknowledgements
Elizabeth C. Robertson, Jeffrey D. Siebert, Deepika C. Fernandez, and Marc U. Zender

Introduction
Jeffrey Seibert

Part I: Theoretical and Conceptual Approaches

Beyond Geoarchaeology: Pragmatist Explorations of Alternative Viewscapes in the British Bronze Age and Beyond
Mary Ann Owoc

Perceptions of Landscapes in Uncertain Times: Chunchucmil, Yucatan , Mexico and the Volcan Baru, Panama
Karen G. Holmberg, Travis W. Stanton, and Scott R. Hutson

Specialization, Social Complexity, and Vernacular Architecture: A Cross-Cultural Stud of Space Construction
Elizabeth A. Bagwell

Maya Mortuary Spaces as Cosmological Metaphors
Pamela L. Geller

Part II: Intrasite Spatial Analysis

The Behavioural Ecology of Early Pleistocene Hominids in the Koobi For a Region, East Turkana Basin, Northern Kenya
S.M. Cahel and J.W.K. Harris

Spatial Models of Intrasettlement Spatial Organization in the EIA of Southern Africa: A View from Ndondondwane on the Central Cattle Pattern
Haskel Greenfield and Len O. van Schalkwyk

The Intrasettlement Spatial Structure of Early Neolithic Settlement in Temperate Southeastern Europe: A View from Blagotin, Serbia
Hasken Greenfield and Tina Jongsma

Part III: Architectural Complexes

The Inhabitation of Rio Viejo’s Acropolis
Arthur A. Joyce

Who put the "Haram" in the Mahram Bilquis?
William D. Glanzman

The Form, Style, and Function of Structure 12A, Minanha, Belize
Jeffrey Seibert

Messages in Stone: Constructing Sociopolitical Inequality in Late Bronze Age Cyprus
Kevin D. Fisher

Individual, Household and Community Space in Early Bronze Age Western Anatolia and the Nearby Islands
Carolyn Aslan

Part IV: Urban Spaces and Cityspace

Body, Boundaries, and "Lived" Urban Space: A Research Model for the Eighth-Century City at Copan, Honduras
Allan L. Maca

The Symbolic Space of the Ancient Maya Sweatbath
Mark B. Child

Space, Place, and the Rise of "Urbanism" in the Canadian Arctic
Peter C. Dawson

Architectural Variability in the Maya Lowlands of the Late Classic Period: A Recent Perspective on the Ancient Maya Cultural Diversity
Martin Lominy

Maya Readings of Settlement Spaces
Denise Fay Brown

Spatial Alignments in Maya Architecture
Annegrete Hohmann-Vogrin

Archaeological Approaches to Ancient Maya Geopolitical Borders
Gyles Iannone

Part V: Landscapes and Natural Environment

Reconstructing Ritual: Some Thoughts on the Location of Petroglyph Groups in the Nasca Valley, Peru
Ana Nieves

"What You See is Where You are": An Examination of Native North American Place Names
Christine Schreyer

Burials and Landscapes of Gournia, Crete, in the Bronze Age
Georgios Vavouranakis

The Origins of Transhumanist Pastoralism in Temperate Southeast Europe
Elizabeth R. Arnold and Haskel J. Greenfield

Clovis Progenitors: From Swan Point, Alazka to Anzick Site, Montana in Less than a Decade?
C. Vance Haynes, Jr

Impacts of Imperialism: Nabataean, Roman, and Byzantine Landscapes in the Wadi Faynan, Southern Jordan
Graeme Barker, Patrick Daley, and Paul Newson

Part VI: The Archaeology of Transportation

Comparing Landscapes of Transportation: Riverine-Oriented and Land-Oriented Systems in the Indus Civilization of the Mughal Empire
Heather M-L Miller

The Life and Times of a British Logging Road in Belize
Olivia Ng and Paul R. Cackler

Moving Mountains: The Trade and Transport of Rocks and Minerals within the Greater Indus Valley Region
Randall Law

Hidden Passage: Graeco-Roman Roads in Egypt’s Eastern Desert
Jennifer E. Gates

Boats, Bitumen , and Bartering: The Use of a Utilitarian Good to Track Movement and Transport in Ancient Exchange Systems
Mark Schwartz and David Hollander

Part VII: Textual and Iconographic Approaches

Weaving Space: Textile Imagery and Landscape in the Mixtec Codices
Sharisse D. McCafferty and Geoffrey G. McCafferty

Engendering Roman Spaces
Penelope M. Allison

A Star of Naranjo: The Celestial Presence of God L
Michele Mae Bernatz

Performing Coatepec: The Raising of the Banners Festival Among the Mexica
Rex Koontz

Part VIII: Framework for the Future

Archaeology and the New World Order: What We Can Offer the Planet
Carole L. Crumley

Index

From the B&N Reads Blog
Page 1 of

Related Subjects

Social Sciences
Anthropology & Archaeology
Archaeology
Archaeology - General & Miscellaneous
Social Sciences
Anthropology & Archaeology
Archaeology
Archaeology - General & Miscellaneous

Customer Reviews