Report
SPARC Project Report: Mapping Chacoan Roads in SE Utah Woodlands
Washington State University
02/22/2022
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7273/000003786
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/123884
Abstract
In July, 2019, a Collaborative Research Agreement was signed between SPARC and four of the Archaeological Collaborators listed above; Wintch was added as a fifth in early 2020. Katie Simon and her assistant Emma Menio were delegated as the representatives for SPARC. The proposed fieldwork was on public land under permit from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). The purpose of the collaborative research was to evaluate the ability of drone-based remote sensing to identify and map prehistoric road traces, especially those occurring primarily in mature pinyon-juniper woodlands on Cedar Mesa in southeastern Utah. The main prior use of drone-based LiDAR mapping of ancient Southwestern roads had been in unforested areas of the San Juan Basin in New Mexico (Friedman et al. 2017; Reese 2018). It was also hoped that the project would lead to better understanding of the scale of Chaco era (A.D. 1075-1140) and immediately post-Chaco (1140-1240 A.D.) roads on Cedar Mesa and in southeastern Utah generally.
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- Title
- SPARC Project Report: Mapping Chacoan Roads in SE Utah Woodlands
- Creators
- William D. Lipe - Washington State University, Anthropology, Department ofJonathan TillWinston B. HurstR. G. MatsonKenny WintchKatie SimonEmma MenioOwen Severance
- Academic Unit
- Cedar Mesa Research Materials
- Publisher
- Washington State University
- Identifiers
- 99900861640401842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Report