Space And Spatial Analysis in Archaeology

by Robertson, Elizabeth C.

• ISBN13: 9780826340221
• ISBN10: 0826340229
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-06-15
• Publisher: Univ of New Mexico Pr

Summary

Spatial analysis is the archaeology of space and place and is concerned with the creation of a cultural landscape focusing on archaeoastronomy, geoarchaeology, and ancient landscapes. Incorporating emerging technology such as GPS positioning and new forms of diagnostic imaging, spatial analysis can enable scientists to study the wider landscape of ancient human settlements. The ability to peer through time and clearly view the distribution of settlements and particular landforms and to determine resource areas provides researchers with invaluable information regarding the social relations, economy, and ecology of any community in the distant past. These papers were selected from the 34th annual Chacmool Archaeological Conference held at the University of Calgary and are designed to examine human interaction with the environment, both physically and cognitively.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Beyond geoarchaeology : pragmatist explorations of alternative viewscapes in the British Bronze Age and beyond	p. 3
Perceptions of landscapes in uncertain times : Chunchucmil, Yucatan, Mexico and the Volcan Baru, Panama	p. 15
Specialization, social complexity and vernacular architecture : a cross-cultural study of space construction	p. 29
Maya mortuary spaces as cosmological metaphors	p. 37
The behavioural ecology of early Pleistocene hominids in the Koobi Fora region, East Turkana Basin, Northern Kenya	p. 49
Spatial models of intrasettlement spatial organization in the EIA of Southern Africa : a view from Ndondondwane on the central cattle pattern	p. 61
The intrasettlement spatial structure of early Neolithic settlements in temperate Southeastern Europe : a view from Blagotin, Serbia	p. 69
The inhabitation of Rio Viejo's acropolis	p. 83
Who put the "Haram" in the Mahram Bilqis?	p. 97
The form, style and function of structure 12A, Minanha, Belize	p. 107
The machine in the ceremonial centre	p. 115
Messages in stone : constructing sociopolitical inequality in late Bronze Age Cyprus	p. 123
Individual, household, and community space in early Bronze Age Western Anatolia and the nearby islands	p. 133
Body, boundaries, and "lived" urban space : a research model for the eighth-century city at Copan, Honduras	p. 143
The symbolic space of the ancient Maya sweatbath	p. 157
Space, place, and the rise of "urbanism" in the Canadian Arctic	p. 169
Architectural variability in the Maya lowlands of the late classic period : a recent perspective on ancient Maya cultural diversity	p. 177
Maya readings of settlement space	p. 189
Spatial alignments in Maya architecture	p. 199
Archaeological approaches to ancient Maya geopolitical borders	p. 205
Reconstructing ritual : some thoughts on the location of petroglyph groups in the Nasca Valley, Peru	p. 217
"What you see is where you are" : an examination of Native North American place names	p. 227
Burials and the landscapes of Gournia, Crete, in the Bronze Age	p. 233
The origins of transhumant pastoralism in temperate Southeastern Europe	p. 243
Clovis progenitors : from Swan Point, Alaska to Anzick site, Montana in less than a decade?	p. 253
Impacts of imperialism : Nabataean, Roman, and Byzantine landscapes in the Wadi Faynan, Southern Jordan	p. 269
Comparing landscapes of transportation : riverine-oriented and land-oriented systems in the Indus civilization and the Mughal Empire	p. 281
The life and times of a British logging road in Belize	p. 293
Moving mountains : the trade and transport of rocks and minerals within the greater Indus Valley region	p. 301
Hidden passage : Graeco-Roman roads in Egypt's eastern desert	p. 315
Boats, bitumen and bartering : the use of a utilitarian good to track movement and transport in ancient exchange systems	p. 323
Weaving space : textile imagery and landscape in the Mixtec codices	p. 333
Engendering Roman spaces	p. 343
A star of Naranjo : the celestial presence of God L	p. 355
Performing Coatepec : the raising of the banners festival among the Mexica	p. 371
Archaeology in the new world order : what we can offer the planet	p. 383
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