Mapping the Adena-Hopewell Landscape in the Middle Ohio Valley, USA: Multi-Scalar Approaches to LiDAR-Derived Imagery from Central Kentucky

Henry, Edward R.; Shields, Carl R.; Kidder, Tristram R.

doi:10.1007/s10816-019-09420-2

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“…Unlike previously recorded council circles, the circular feature and extraction pits recorded in our survey have little in the way of topographic expression, and the center of the feature is elevated only a small amount above the surrounding fields, as revealed in a high-resolution DSM generated from visible light imagery (Figure 7d). However, other recent studies of known mounds and enclosures in the Midwest show that modern agriculture and pasture activities can obscure or remove all topographic expression of such features, even while traces of their existence are extant below ground and in geophysical data (Henry et al 2019; Riley and Tiffany 2014): a similar process could have affected the feature we observe in our data.…”

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A Council Circle at Etzanoa? Multi-sensor Drone Survey at an Ancestral Wichita Settlement in Southeastern Kansas

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This article presents results of a multi-sensor drone survey at an ancestral Wichita archaeological site in southeastern Kansas, originally recorded in the 1930s and believed by some scholars to be the location of historical “Etzanoa,” a major settlement reportedly encountered by Spanish conquistador Juan de Oñate in 1601. We used high-resolution, drone-acquired thermal and multispectral (color and near-infrared) imagery, alongside publicly available lidar data and satellite imagery, to prospect for archaeological features across a relatively undisturbed 18 ha area of the site. Results reveal a feature that is best interpreted as the remains of a large, circular earthwork, similar to so-called council circles documented at five other contemporary sites of the Great Bend aspect cultural assemblage. We also located several features that may be remains of house basins, the size and configuration of which conform with historical evidence. These findings point to major investment in the construction of large-scale ritual, elite, or defensive structures, lending support to the interpretation of the cluster of Great Bend aspect sites in the lower Walnut River as a single, sprawling population center, as well as demonstrating the potential for thermal and multispectral surveys to reveal archaeological landscape features in the Great Plains and beyond.

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A Council Circle at Etzanoa? Multi-sensor Drone Survey at an Ancestral Wichita Settlement in Southeastern Kansas

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“…A variety of applications and methods-oriented publications have been presented over the past decade to approach these problems (e.g., Chase et al 2016; Evans et al 2013; Guyot et al 2018; Henry et al 2019; Opitz et al 2015; Quintus et al 2015), and multiple approaches (or combinations of approaches) are adopted by specialists today. Regarding the desk-based analysis of lidar information, the common approach involves the interpretation of digital elevation models (DEMs) produced from the lidar raw data (initially point clouds) using a series of possible visualizations (e.g., Chase and Weishampel 2016; Ebert et al 2016).…”

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Testing Web Mapping and Active Learning to Approach Lidar Data

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Combey

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Adv. archaeol. pract.

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After acquiring 91 km2 of lidar data from the Zacapu region, West Mexico, we confronted a series of issues that most archaeologists using this technology face. These include the large volume of data available, the limited training of potential “analysts,” the difficult development of a collective mapping tool and protocol, and the reliability of desk-based interpretation of archaeological features. In this article, we present an initiative conducted in 2015 and 2017 as an attempt to answer these methodological and pedagogical issues. We developed a web mapping platform to collectively interpret archaeological features using lidar-derived imagery and to train volunteer students to participate in this desk-based web mapping within a crowdsourcing framework. After evaluating the results of this initiative, we discuss the potential and limitations of this method for both lidar-based research and future training.

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“…Regarding earthworks, resurveys of Ohio Valley Hopewell and Adena enclosures are refining legacy maps, finding new features, and recording new sites in previously unsurveyed tracts. Most of the newly detected earthworks are geometric enclosures whose surface evidence was plowed away but whose highly magnetic infilled ditches contrast well with surrounding subsoil (Burks and Cook 2011; Henry et al 2019; Horsley et al 2014; Wright 2014). Few of these leveled earthworks appear in aerial imagery, and nearly none in lidar coverage.…”

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Geophysical Detection and Assessment of Leveled Mounds: An Example from the Upper Mississippi Valley

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Wiewel²,

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2021

Am. Antiq.

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Most earthen burial mounds of eastern North America have been destroyed—or have they? We review geophysical methods for assessing whether leveled mounds retain intact deposits or features. Magnetic survey holds promise for locating and evaluating leveled mounds because it is rapid and sensitive to magnetic variations associated with anticipated features such as pits and deposits of mound fill. As a case study, we discuss our magnetic survey of the Gast Farm site (13LA12) in eastern Iowa. The survey covered 8.64 ha, encompassing loci of one previously reported mound and possible geometric earthworks as well as Middle and Late Woodland habitation areas. Interpretation of survey results incorporated quantitative differentiation of magnetic anomaly types using GIS techniques, along with standard visual inspection. We found no evidence of geometric earthworks but identified at least six leveled mounds. Displaced mound fill appears to account for the earthwork-like features. We conclude that leveled mounds are detectable and may retain subsurface integrity. Their associated features, including burials, may be identifiable even when above-ground evidence has disappeared.

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Mapping the Adena-Hopewell Landscape in the Middle Ohio Valley, USA: Multi-Scalar Approaches to LiDAR-Derived Imagery from Central Kentucky

Cited by 25 publications

References 86 publications

A Council Circle at Etzanoa? Multi-sensor Drone Survey at an Ancestral Wichita Settlement in Southeastern Kansas

A Council Circle at Etzanoa? Multi-sensor Drone Survey at an Ancestral Wichita Settlement in Southeastern Kansas

Testing Web Mapping and Active Learning to Approach Lidar Data

Geophysical Detection and Assessment of Leveled Mounds: An Example from the Upper Mississippi Valley

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