Ancient Maya impacts on the Earth's surface: An Early Anthropocene analog?

T Beach, S Luzzadder-Beach, D Cook… - Quaternary Science …, 2015 - Elsevier
The measure of the “Mayacene,” a microcosm of the Early Anthropocene that occurred from
c. 3000 to 1000 BP, comes from multiple Late Quaternary paleoenvironmental records. We …

Ancient lowland Maya complexity as revealed by airborne laser scanning of northern Guatemala

MA Canuto, F Estrada-Belli, TG Garrison, SD Houston… - Science, 2018 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Lowland Maya civilization flourished from 1000 BCE to 1500 CE in and
around the Yucatan Peninsula. Known for its sophistication in writing, art, architecture …

Urbanism and anthropogenic landscapes

AF Chase, DZ Chase - Annual Review of Anthropology, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Humans consistently modify their environments—both directly and indirectly. However, the
linkage between human activity and anthropogenic landscapes intensifies in urban …

Ancient Lowland Maya neighborhoods: Average Nearest Neighbor analysis and kernel density models, environments, and urban scale

AE Thompson, JP Walden, ASZ Chase, SR Hutson… - PloS one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Many humans live in large, complex political centers, composed of multi-scalar communities
including neighborhoods and districts. Both today and in the past, neighborhoods form a …

Origins and spread of formal ceremonial complexes in the Olmec and Maya regions revealed by airborne lidar

T Inomata, JC Fernandez-Diaz, D Triadan… - Nature Human …, 2021 - nature.com
City plans symbolizing cosmologies have long been recognized as a defining element of
Mesoamerican civilizations. The origins of formal spatial configurations are thus the key to …

LiDAR for archaeological research and the study of historical landscapes

ASZ Chase, DZ Chase, AF Chase - Sensing the Past: From artifact to …, 2017 - Springer
Remote sensing technologies have helped to revolutionize archaeology. LiDAR (light
detection and ranging), a remote sensing technology in which lasers are used as …

Caracol, Belize, and changing perceptions of ancient Maya society

DZ Chase, AF Chase - Journal of Archaeological Research, 2017 - Springer
Archaeological research at Caracol, an ancient Maya site that was rediscovered in 1937,
has become a major resource in the interpretation and understanding of the ancient Maya …

Machine learning-ready remote sensing data for Maya archaeology

Ž Kokalj, S Džeroski, I Šprajc, J Štajdohar, A Draksler… - Scientific Data, 2023 - nature.com
In our study, we set out to collect a multimodal annotated dataset for remote sensing of Maya
archaeology, that is suitable for deep learning. The dataset covers the area around Chactún …

Automated mound detection using lidar and object-based image analysis in Beaufort County, South Carolina

DS Davis, MC Sanger, CP Lipo - Southeastern Archaeology, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
The study of precontact anthropogenic mounded features—earthen mounds, shell heaps,
and shell rings—in the American Southeast is stymied by the spotty distribution of systematic …

[HTML][HTML] Archaeological application of airborne LiDAR to examine social changes in the Ceibal region of the Maya lowlands

T Inomata, D Triadan, F Pinzón, M Burham… - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Although the application of LiDAR has made significant contributions to archaeology, LiDAR
only provides a synchronic view of the current topography. An important challenge for …