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Remote Sensing of Chaco Roads Revisited: Lidar Documentation of the Great North Road, Pueblo Alto Landscape, and Aztec Airport Mesa Road
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This paper reports on the first and highly effective use of Light Detection and Ranging (lidar) technology to document Chaco roads, monumental linear surface constructions of the precolumbian culture that occupied the Four Corners region of the American Southwest between approximately AD 600 and 1300. Analysis of aerial photographs supplemented by ground survey has been the traditional methodology employed to identify Chaco roads, but their traces have become increasingly subtle and difficult to detect in recent years due to the impacts of natural weathering, erosion, and land development. Roads that were easily visible in aerial photography and on the ground in the 1980s are now virtually invisible, underscoring the need for new, cutting-edge techniques to detect and document them. Using three case studies of the Aztec Airport Mesa Road, the Great North Road, and the Pueblo Alto Landscape, we demonstrate lidar's unprecedented ability to document known Chaco roads, discover previously undetected road segments, and produce a precise quantitative record of these rapidly vanishing features.
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After two decades of computational advances and recent expansions in recognition of Chaco roads, sufficient information on the Chaco road network is now available to apply LCA on a larger geographic scale.
“After two decades of computational advances in pathway modeling and recent expansions in the recognition of Chaco roads (Field 2017; Friedman et al. 2017; Till 2017), sufficient information on the Chaco road network is now available to apply LCA on a larger geographic scale.”
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Sufficient information on the Chaco road network is now available to apply LCA on a larger geographic scale.
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- Friedman, R. A., Sofaer, A., & Weiner, R. S.
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- Advances in Archaeological Practice
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- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
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- 2017-09-12
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