Finding Fields: Locating Archaeological Agricultural Landscapes Using Historical Aerial Photographs
Finding Fields: Locating Archaeological Agricultural Landscapes Using Historical Aerial Photographs
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寻找田地:利用历史航空照片定位考古农业景观
DOI:
10.1017/aaq.2020.102
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发表时间:
2021
影响因子:
2.8
通讯作者:
Casana, Jesse
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作者:
McLeester, Madeleine;Casana, Jesse
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, over 450 precolumbian and historic Indigenous agricultural fields were documented across the state of Wisconsin. Today, the vast majority of these features are generally assumed to have been destroyed. Focusing on the Wisconsin River basin, which has the highest concentration of known archaeological field systems in the Midwest, this study explores the potential of using historical aerial photographs to identify and interpret archaeological agricultural features. Relying on state site records, an archive of high-resolution 1930s aerial images, and modern lidar data, we carefully examine the region surrounding 59 sites where fields had previously been documented. At a quarter of the sites we investigated, we successfully identified both known and unrecorded archaeological features—including agricultural fields, effigy mounds, earthworks, and house basins—most of which have been destroyed by recent land use practices. Our analysis sheds light on the complexity and richness of the archaeological landscape, with vast agricultural spaces situated beyond traditional site boundaries, and suggests that precolumbian and historic Indigenous agricultural fields may have been much larger and more widespread than conventionally understood.
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