The application of lidar remote-sensing technology has revolutionized the practice of
settlement and landscape archaeology, perhaps nowhere more so than in the Maya …

One of the critical factors affecting travel rates while hiking, jogging, or running along a trail
is the slope of the underlying terrain. Models for predicting this effect have been used in a …

Abstract Traditionally, Least Cost Paths (LCP) are used for exploring mobility across
archaeological landscapes. However, LCPs only highlight optimal paths, and implementing …

Access to social capital and valued resources modulates household decision-making as
people seek to occupy the best-quality patches of land available. Prior occupancy …

Inequality is present to some degree in all human societies. In prehispanic Mesoamerica,
wealth inequality has been linked to forms of governance, where Classic Maya (250–800 …

Due to the proliferation of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software and the
improvement of graphic user interfaces, least-cost analysis has become one of the most …

Present theory suggests that neighborhoods form through frequent, repeated face-to-face
interactions among people in groups of spatially co-located residences. Over time, layered …

This research combines traditional archaeological analysis with lidar data to investigate
infrastructure, residential architecture, and neighborhoods in a completely new way. Taken …

Food security in ancient urban centers is often discussed but rarely formally modelled.
Despite its location in an inhospitable desert where food production is a constant challenge …

This paper investigates ancient pastoral mobility in a high mountain area of the Pyrenees.
Firstly, modern transhumant routes were analysed using GIS tools in order to understand …