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
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Etzanoa 的议会圈？
DOI：
10.1017/aaq.2020.49
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发表时间：
2020
影响因子：
2.8
通讯作者：
Blakeslee, D.
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作者：
Casana, J.;Laugier, E.;Hil, l A.C.;Blakeslee, D.
本文介绍了多传感器无人机在堪萨斯东南部的一个祖先威奇托考古遗址进行调查的结果，该遗址最初记录于20世纪30年代，一些学者认为它是历史上的“Etzanoa”所在地，据报道，这是西班牙征服者Juan de Oñate在1601年遇到的一个主要定居点。我们使用高分辨率，无人机获取的热和多光谱（彩色和近红外）图像，以及公开的激光雷达数据和卫星图像，在相对未受干扰的18公顷区域内对考古特征进行前景。结果揭示了一个功能，最好的解释是一个大的，圆形的遗迹，类似于所谓的理事会圈记录在其他五个当代网站的大弯曲方面的文化组合。我们还发现了几个可能是房屋盆地遗迹的特征，其大小和配置符合历史证据。这些研究结果表明，在大规模的仪式，精英，或防御结构的建设，贷款支持集群的解释大弯曲方面的网站在较低的核桃河作为一个单一的，庞大的人口中心，以及展示的潜力，热和多光谱调查，以揭示在大平原及以外的考古景观特征。
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.