Rethinking the landscape: Emerging approaches to archaeological remote sensing

J Casana - Annual Review of Anthropology, 2021 - annualreviews.org
An emerging arena of archaeological research is beginning to deploy remote sensing
technologies—including aerial and satellite imagery, digital topographic data, and drone …

Regional response to drought during the formation and decline of Preclassic Maya societies

CE Ebert, NP May, BJ Culleton, JJ Awe… - Quaternary Science …, 2017 - Elsevier
The earliest complex societies and a distinctive set of pan-regional social, political, and
economic institutions appeared in the southern Maya lowlands during the Preclassic period …

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 …

Global-scale archaeological prospection using CORONA satellite imagery: Automated, crowd-sourced, and expert-led approaches

J Casana - Journal of Field Archaeology, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Declassified CORONA satellite imagery, collected from 1960–1972 as part of the world's first
intelligence satellite program, provides nearly global, high-resolution, stereo imagery that …

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 …

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 …

Understanding and calculating household size, wealth, and inequality in the Maya Lowlands

ASZ Chase, AE Thompson, JP Walden… - Ancient …, 2023 - cambridge.org
Inequality is present in all human societies, but building a robust understanding of how that
inequality developed and persisted for centuries requires historical and archaeological data …

Assessing Classic Maya multi-scalar household inequality in southern Belize

AE Thompson, GM Feinman, KM Prufer - Plos One, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Inequality is present to varying degrees in all human societies, pre-modern and
contemporary. For archaeological contexts, variation in house size reflects differences in …

Archaeological application of airborne LiDAR with object-based vegetation classification and visualization techniques at the lowland Maya site of Ceibal, Guatemala

T Inomata, F Pinzón, JL Ranchos, T Haraguchi… - Remote sensing, 2017 - mdpi.com
The successful analysis of LiDAR data for archaeological research requires an evaluation of
effects of different vegetation types and the use of adequate visualization techniques for the …

Drought and its demographic effects in the Maya lowlands

JA Hoggarth, M Restall, JW Wood… - Current …, 2017 - journals.uchicago.edu
Increasing evidence supports the role of climate change in the disintegration of regional
polities in the Maya lowlands at the end of the Classic Period (750–1000 CE). However, the …