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Austin C Hill

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ID125587
NAMEAustin C Hill
GIVEN NAMESAustin C
FAMILY NAMEHill
SIGNATUREHILL A C
AFFILIATIONSDartmouth College
ORCID0000-0002-8397-8105
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS27
TOTAL CITATIONS124
AUTHOR COUNT27
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2010
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX7
  • Finding Ashmounds

    Open Access•Austin C Hill, Mark T Lycett et al.•ARTICLE•American Antiquity•2026

    Electrical Resistance Tomography (ERT) is commonly used in geophysical and environmental surveys because it allows for rapid and high-quality resolution of large depositional features over a wide area. It is generally less able to resolve small anthropogenic features, however, so it has had a slower uptake among archaeologists despite several promising applications over the last two decades. Traditional soil resistivity (ER) surveys are generally…

  • Fieldwork in an Increasingly Variable Climate

    Austin C Hill, Yorke M Rowan et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Field Archaeology•2024•References: 13

    Archaeologists commonly include climatic data in their analyses of living in the past, but rarely do current weather conditions achieve mention in our professional considerations. The Kites in Context Project (KiC) focuses on a multi-scalar investigation of desert kites in the eastern badia region of Jordan. During the Neolithic (7000–5000 b.c.) period, people began building large animal traps, known as desert kites, across a wide swath of southw…

  • Multi-sensor drone survey of ancestral agricultural landscapes at Picuris Pueblo, New Mexico

    Open Access•J Casana, Severin Fowles et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Archaeological Science•2023•Cited by: 5•References: 13

  • Mapping Ancient Architecture via Unpiloted Aerial Vehicle-acquired LiDAR

    M D Mccoy, J Casana et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of the Polynesian Society•2022

    At present there is no systematic record of the size, form or density of architecture at Hawaiian royal centres. We report on the results of a UAV LiDAR survey of one of the best-preserved examples of a royal centre in the archipelago: Hōlualoa Royal Centre, Kona District, Hawai'i Island. The resolution of our data (0.3-0.1 m) is far superior to previous airborne LiDAR surveys (1.0 m); however, several factors, including thick understory vegetati…

  • The Jarigole mortuary tradition reconsidered

    Open Access•E A Sawchuk, E A Hildebrand et al.•ARTICLE•Antiquity•2022•Cited by: 3

    The megalithic pillar sites found around Lake Turkana, Kenya, are monumental cemeteries built approximately 5000 years ago. Their construction coincides with the spread of pastoralism into the region during a period of profound climate change. Early work at the Jarigole pillar site suggested that these places were secondary burial grounds. Subsequent excavations at other pillar sites, however, have revealed planned mortuary cavities for predomina…

  • Exploring archaeological landscapes using drone-acquired lidar

    Open Access•J Casana, Elise Jakoby Laugier et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Archaeological Science…•2021•Cited by: 1•References: 24

  • On Hedgehogs and Marvelous Minds

    Open Access•Austin C Hill, Morag M Kersel et al.•ARTICLE•Advances in Archaeological Practice•2021•References: 9

    The collection of 3D point data is a common bottleneck for archaeological excavations despite an increasing range of powerful spatial data collection technologies. Total stations often require a dedicated operator, and they are optimal for excavation-level data collection over relatively short line-of-site distances. Precision Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) require reliable communication with constellations of distant satellites and m…

  • Unpiloted Aerial Vehicle Acquired Lidar for Mapping Monumental Architecture

    Open Access•M D Mccoy, J Casana et al.•ARTICLE•Advances in Archaeological Practice•2021•Cited by: 4•References: 18

    As lidar becomes a regular part of surveying, ground-based platforms (handheld, mobile, and terrestrial lidar) and airborne platforms (piloted aircraft) are being joined by unpiloted aerial vehicle (UAV)–acquired lidar. We present a method for leveraging UAV-acquired lidar data with data collected using different lidar platforms (terrestrial and piloted aircraft), at a range of resolutions (1 to +1,000 points per m 2 ) and geographic scales. We u…

  • Late Prehistory of the Lower Galilee

    Yorke M Rowan, Morag M Kersel et al.•ARTICLE•Bulletin of the American Schools…•2020

    In the southern Levant, fundamental changes in economic organization, mortuary practices, and settlement patterns took place during the 5th to early 4th millennium b.c.e., or the Chalcolithic period (ca. 4500–3700/3600 b.c.e.). Our best evidence derives from sites in the Negev, and to a lesser degree, the Jordan Valley and Golan Heights, and the mortuary sites along the coast. The goal of the Galilee Prehistory Project is to examine this period b…

  • Inscribed landscapes in the Black Desert

    Open Access•Austin C Hill, Yorke M Rowan et al.•ARTICLE•Arabian archaeology and epigraphy•2020•Cited by: 5•References: 28

    Petroglyphs are well known in the Negev, eastern and southern Jordan, and the Arabian Peninsula. Intensive documentation of hundreds of petroglyphs at the site of Wisad Pools in the Black Desert of eastern Jordan records animals, humans, hunting traps and geometric designs, connecting people and places to the larger landscape. These were recorded at the landscape scale with drones and photogrammetry, and the local scale through the construction o…

  • Databases, Drones, Diggers, and Diplomacy

    Open Access•Morag M Kersel, Austin C Hill•ARTICLE•Journal of Field Archaeology•2020•Cited by: 6•References: 39

    Looting of archaeological sites and thefts from cultural institutions in the Middle East is driven by an international demand for artifacts. Despite the efforts of Ministries of Culture, Departments of Antiquities, cultural heritage NGOs, and local communities, landscapes are destroyed, sites are pillaged, and museums are ransacked across the region. Like other countries, Jordan has a demand driven looting problem rooted in the legal and illegal …

  • A Council Circle at Etzanoa? Multi-sensor Drone Survey at an Ancestral Wichita Settlement in Southeastern Kansas

    Open Access•J Casana, Elise Jakoby Laugier et al.•ARTICLE•American Antiquity•2020•Cited by: 2•References: 24

    This article presents results of a multi-sensor drone survey at an ancestral Wichita archaeological site in southeastern Kansas, originally recorded in the 1930s and believed by some scholars to be the location of historical 'Etzanoa,' a major settlement reportedly encountered by Spanish conquistador Juan de Oñate in 1601. We used high-resolution, drone-acquired thermal and multispectral (color and near-infrared) imagery, alongside publicly avail…

  • Economical drone mapping for archaeology

    Open Access•Austin C Hill•ARTICLE•Journal of Archaeological Science…•2019•Cited by: 1•References: 6

  • A New Era in Spatial Data Recording

    Open Access•Austin C Hill, Fred Limp et al.•ARTICLE•Advances in Archaeological Practice•2019•Cited by: 8•References: 3

    Archaeologists have long recognized that precise three-dimensional coordinates are critical for recording objects and features across sites and landscapes. Traditionally, for relatively small areas, an optical transit or, more recently, an electronic distance measurement device (EDM) has been used to acquire these three-dimensional points. While effective, such systems have significant limitations in that they require a clear line of site. Real-t…

  • The (W)Hole Picture

    Open Access•Morag M Kersel, Austin C Hill•ARTICLE•International Journal of Cultural…•2019•Cited by: 12•References: 41

    How do archaeologists, governments, law enforcement, and a local non-governmental organization react to a hole in the ground—a hole that is the direct result of archaeological site looting? Whatever the response, the aim is the same: the protection of Jordanian cultural heritage through a curtailing of archaeological looting. New to the standard suite of responses are unpiloted aerial vehicles (UAVs). A comprehensive approach to the landscape, wh…

  • The bioarchaeology of mid-Holocene pastoralist cemeteries west of Lake Turkana, Kenya

    Open Access•E A Sawchuk, Susan Pfeiffer et al.•ARTICLE•Archaeological and Anthropological…•2019•Cited by: 14•References: 42

    Early herders in eastern Africa built elaborate megalithic cemeteries ~ 5000 BP overlooking what is now Lake Turkana in northwestern Kenya. At least six 'pillar sites' were constructed during a time of rapid change: cattle, sheep, and goats were introduced to the basin as the lake was shrinking at the end of the African Humid Period. Cultural changes at this time include new lithic and ceramic technologies and the earliest monumentality in easter…

  • Detecting prehistoric landscape features using thermal, multispectral, and historical imagery analysis at Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie, Illinois

    Open Access•Madeleine Mcleester, J Casana et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Archaeological Science…•2018•Cited by: 11•References: 22

  • Droning on in the Badia

    Austin C Hill, Yorke M Rowan et al.•ARTICLE•Near Eastern Archaeology•2017•Cited by: 1•References: 11

    Drones, or Unpiloted Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), are quickly changing approaches to archaeological mapping. They are effective tools for documenting smaller ancient features that might be missed by the resolution limitations of satellite imagery. As part of the Eastern Badia Archaeological Project, this article presents the preliminary results of a large-scale aerial survey of Wadi al-Qattafi, Jordan undertaken to map the kites and smaller features c…

  • The Late Neolithic Presence in the Black Desert

    Yorke M Rowan, Gary Rollefson et al.•ARTICLE•Near Eastern Archaeology•2017•Cited by: 5•References: 9

    Major cultural transformations took place in the southern Levant during the late prehistoric periods (ca. mid-seventh through fourth millenna B.C.E.). General syntheses rarely include more than cursory mention of the more arid regions of the southern Levant (Negev, eastern and southern Jordan). The Eastern Badia Archaeological Project [EBAP] study area comprises a west–east transect across the southern part of the eastern badia, selected to inclu…

  • Gazelles, Liminality, and Chalcolithic Ritual

    M Price, Max D Price et al.•ARTICLE•Bulletin of the American Schools…•2016

    Endangered today, gazelles were both economically and symbolically important to the peoples of the ancient Near East. In various contexts, the gazelle has represented liminality, death, and rebirth. Gazelles held special significance in the southern Levant, where archaeologists have documented cases, spanning 20,000 years, of ritual behavior involving gazelle body parts. What roles did gazelles play during the Chalcolithic (ca. 4500–3600 B.C.), a…

  • Feasting at Marj Rabba, An Early Chalcolithic Site in the Galilee

    Open Access•Austin C Hill, M Price et al.•ARTICLE•Oxford Journal of Archaeology•2016•Cited by: 2•References: 26

    Feasting is a common part of human culture in the present and past that can serve a variety of roles such as creating and maintaining social identities within and between social groups. In zooarchaeology, feasting evidence, rather than the accumulated and mixed refuse from long‐term consumption, often gives us some of the only data from individual events at a site. A cattle bone refuse pit at the site of Marj Rabba, Israel, provides evidence for …

  • Ruwayda

    Andrew Petersen, Faisal Abdullah Al-Naimi et al.•ARTICLE•Post-Medieval Archaeology•2016•References: 3

    Ruwayda was first identified as an archaeological site in the 1970s and was excavated between 2009 and 2014. Despite a paucity of documentary evidence, this large settlement, which extends over an area of more than 90 hectares, contains a number of features indicative of an urban settlement including two mosques, a series of warehouses, a large multi-period fort, large courtyard houses interspersed with smaller, less substantial structures and a …

  • The “land of conjecture

    Yorke M Rowan, Gary O Rollefson et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Field Archaeology•2015•Cited by: 9•References: 17

    Major cultural transformations took place in the southern Levant during the late prehistoric periods (ca. late 7th–4th millennia b.c.). Agropastoralists expanded into areas previously only sparsely occupied and secondary animal products played an increasingly important economic role. In the arable parts of the southern Levant, the olive in particular became increasingly significant and may have played a part in expanded exchange contacts in the r…

  • Back to Tel Tsaf

    D Rosenberg, Florian Klimscha et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of the Israel Prehistoric…•2014

    Danny Rosenberg, Florian Klimscha, Philip J. Graham, Austin (Chad) Hill, Lior Weissbrod, Inbar Ktalav, Serena Love, Sonia Pinsky, Emily Hubbard, Elisabetta Boaretto, דני רוזנברג, פלוריאן קלימשה, פיליפ גרהם, צ'אד היל, ליאור וויסברוד, ענבר קטלב, סרינה לאב, סוניה פינסקי, אמילי הוברד, אליזבטה בוארטו, בחזרה לצף - דו"ח ראשוני על עונת 2013 של הפרויקט המחודש / Back to Tel Tsaf: A Preliminary Report on the 2013 Season of the Renewed Project, Mitekufat Hae…

  • Mapping with Aerial Photographs

    Austin C Hill, Austin Hill et al.•ARTICLE•Near Eastern Archaeology•2014•Cited by: 6•References: 2

    A rapidly expanding array of innovative technologies, combined with traditional techniques, allow more sophisticated photographic and photogrammetric techniques to document and analyze archaeological features, sites, and landscapes. With multiple ways to put a camera aloft over archaeological sites and landscapes, aerial photographs are more than a “bird's eye view.” Over five seasons at the Chalcolithic Period (c. 4500–3700 b.c.e.) site of Marj …

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  • Feasting between the Revolutions

    David Ben-Shlomo, Austin C Hill et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Mediterranean…•2010•Cited by: 15

    Feasting has attracted much attention in archaeological research, both within the Near East and elsewhere in the world. Recent evidence of feasting includes occurrences in the Near East at prehistoric as well as Bronze and Iron Age sites, reflecting the diversity of types and functions of feasts. This article presents new evidence for feasting related to the intermediate protohistoric period in the southern Levant, coming from Middle Chalcolithic…

  • The bioarchaeology of mid-Holocene pastoralist cemeteries west of Lake Turkana, Kenya

    Open Access•E A Sawchuk, Susan Pfeiffer et al.•ARTICLE•Archaeological and Anthropological…•2019•Cited by: 14•References: 42

    Early herders in eastern Africa built elaborate megalithic cemeteries ~ 5000 BP overlooking what is now Lake Turkana in northwestern Kenya. At least six 'pillar sites' were constructed during a time of rapid change: cattle, sheep, and goats were introduced to the basin as the lake was shrinking at the end of the African Humid Period. Cultural changes at this time include new lithic and ceramic technologies and the earliest monumentality in easter…

  • An exploration of character traits and linear measurements for sexing mountain gazelle (Gazella gazella) skeletons

    Open Access•N D Munro, Guy Bar-Oz et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Archaeological Science•2011•Cited by: 14•References: 23

  • The (W)Hole Picture

    Open Access•Morag M Kersel, Austin C Hill•ARTICLE•International Journal of Cultural…•2019•Cited by: 12•References: 41

    How do archaeologists, governments, law enforcement, and a local non-governmental organization react to a hole in the ground—a hole that is the direct result of archaeological site looting? Whatever the response, the aim is the same: the protection of Jordanian cultural heritage through a curtailing of archaeological looting. New to the standard suite of responses are unpiloted aerial vehicles (UAVs). A comprehensive approach to the landscape, wh…

  • Detecting prehistoric landscape features using thermal, multispectral, and historical imagery analysis at Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie, Illinois

    Open Access•Madeleine Mcleester, J Casana et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Archaeological Science…•2018•Cited by: 11•References: 22

  • The “land of conjecture

    Yorke M Rowan, Gary O Rollefson et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Field Archaeology•2015•Cited by: 9•References: 17

    Major cultural transformations took place in the southern Levant during the late prehistoric periods (ca. late 7th–4th millennia b.c.). Agropastoralists expanded into areas previously only sparsely occupied and secondary animal products played an increasingly important economic role. In the arable parts of the southern Levant, the olive in particular became increasingly significant and may have played a part in expanded exchange contacts in the r…

  • A New Era in Spatial Data Recording

    Open Access•Austin C Hill, Fred Limp et al.•ARTICLE•Advances in Archaeological Practice•2019•Cited by: 8•References: 3

    Archaeologists have long recognized that precise three-dimensional coordinates are critical for recording objects and features across sites and landscapes. Traditionally, for relatively small areas, an optical transit or, more recently, an electronic distance measurement device (EDM) has been used to acquire these three-dimensional points. While effective, such systems have significant limitations in that they require a clear line of site. Real-t…

  • Databases, Drones, Diggers, and Diplomacy

    Open Access•Morag M Kersel, Austin C Hill•ARTICLE•Journal of Field Archaeology•2020•Cited by: 6•References: 39

    Looting of archaeological sites and thefts from cultural institutions in the Middle East is driven by an international demand for artifacts. Despite the efforts of Ministries of Culture, Departments of Antiquities, cultural heritage NGOs, and local communities, landscapes are destroyed, sites are pillaged, and museums are ransacked across the region. Like other countries, Jordan has a demand driven looting problem rooted in the legal and illegal …

  • Mapping with Aerial Photographs

    Austin C Hill, Austin Hill et al.•ARTICLE•Near Eastern Archaeology•2014•Cited by: 6•References: 2

    A rapidly expanding array of innovative technologies, combined with traditional techniques, allow more sophisticated photographic and photogrammetric techniques to document and analyze archaeological features, sites, and landscapes. With multiple ways to put a camera aloft over archaeological sites and landscapes, aerial photographs are more than a “bird's eye view.” Over five seasons at the Chalcolithic Period (c. 4500–3700 b.c.e.) site of Marj …

  • Multi-sensor drone survey of ancestral agricultural landscapes at Picuris Pueblo, New Mexico

    Open Access•J Casana, Severin Fowles et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Archaeological Science•2023•Cited by: 5•References: 13

  • Inscribed landscapes in the Black Desert

    Open Access•Austin C Hill, Yorke M Rowan et al.•ARTICLE•Arabian archaeology and epigraphy•2020•Cited by: 5•References: 28

    Petroglyphs are well known in the Negev, eastern and southern Jordan, and the Arabian Peninsula. Intensive documentation of hundreds of petroglyphs at the site of Wisad Pools in the Black Desert of eastern Jordan records animals, humans, hunting traps and geometric designs, connecting people and places to the larger landscape. These were recorded at the landscape scale with drones and photogrammetry, and the local scale through the construction o…

  • The Late Neolithic Presence in the Black Desert

    Yorke M Rowan, Gary Rollefson et al.•ARTICLE•Near Eastern Archaeology•2017•Cited by: 5•References: 9

    Major cultural transformations took place in the southern Levant during the late prehistoric periods (ca. mid-seventh through fourth millenna B.C.E.). General syntheses rarely include more than cursory mention of the more arid regions of the southern Levant (Negev, eastern and southern Jordan). The Eastern Badia Archaeological Project [EBAP] study area comprises a west–east transect across the southern part of the eastern badia, selected to inclu…

  • Unpiloted Aerial Vehicle Acquired Lidar for Mapping Monumental Architecture

    Open Access•M D Mccoy, J Casana et al.•ARTICLE•Advances in Archaeological Practice•2021•Cited by: 4•References: 18

    As lidar becomes a regular part of surveying, ground-based platforms (handheld, mobile, and terrestrial lidar) and airborne platforms (piloted aircraft) are being joined by unpiloted aerial vehicle (UAV)–acquired lidar. We present a method for leveraging UAV-acquired lidar data with data collected using different lidar platforms (terrestrial and piloted aircraft), at a range of resolutions (1 to +1,000 points per m 2 ) and geographic scales. We u…

  • The Jarigole mortuary tradition reconsidered

    Open Access•E A Sawchuk, E A Hildebrand et al.•ARTICLE•Antiquity•2022•Cited by: 3

    The megalithic pillar sites found around Lake Turkana, Kenya, are monumental cemeteries built approximately 5000 years ago. Their construction coincides with the spread of pastoralism into the region during a period of profound climate change. Early work at the Jarigole pillar site suggested that these places were secondary burial grounds. Subsequent excavations at other pillar sites, however, have revealed planned mortuary cavities for predomina…

  • A Council Circle at Etzanoa? Multi-sensor Drone Survey at an Ancestral Wichita Settlement in Southeastern Kansas

    Open Access•J Casana, Elise Jakoby Laugier et al.•ARTICLE•American Antiquity•2020•Cited by: 2•References: 24

    This article presents results of a multi-sensor drone survey at an ancestral Wichita archaeological site in southeastern Kansas, originally recorded in the 1930s and believed by some scholars to be the location of historical 'Etzanoa,' a major settlement reportedly encountered by Spanish conquistador Juan de Oñate in 1601. We used high-resolution, drone-acquired thermal and multispectral (color and near-infrared) imagery, alongside publicly avail…

  • Feasting at Marj Rabba, An Early Chalcolithic Site in the Galilee

    Open Access•Austin C Hill, M Price et al.•ARTICLE•Oxford Journal of Archaeology•2016•Cited by: 2•References: 26

    Feasting is a common part of human culture in the present and past that can serve a variety of roles such as creating and maintaining social identities within and between social groups. In zooarchaeology, feasting evidence, rather than the accumulated and mixed refuse from long‐term consumption, often gives us some of the only data from individual events at a site. A cattle bone refuse pit at the site of Marj Rabba, Israel, provides evidence for …

  • Exploring archaeological landscapes using drone-acquired lidar

    Open Access•J Casana, Elise Jakoby Laugier et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Archaeological Science…•2021•Cited by: 1•References: 24

  • Economical drone mapping for archaeology

    Open Access•Austin C Hill•ARTICLE•Journal of Archaeological Science…•2019•Cited by: 1•References: 6

  • Droning on in the Badia

    Austin C Hill, Yorke M Rowan et al.•ARTICLE•Near Eastern Archaeology•2017•Cited by: 1•References: 11

    Drones, or Unpiloted Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), are quickly changing approaches to archaeological mapping. They are effective tools for documenting smaller ancient features that might be missed by the resolution limitations of satellite imagery. As part of the Eastern Badia Archaeological Project, this article presents the preliminary results of a large-scale aerial survey of Wadi al-Qattafi, Jordan undertaken to map the kites and smaller features c…

  • Feasting between the Revolutions

    David Ben-Shlomo, Austin C Hill et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Mediterranean…•2010•Cited by: 15

    Feasting has attracted much attention in archaeological research, both within the Near East and elsewhere in the world. Recent evidence of feasting includes occurrences in the Near East at prehistoric as well as Bronze and Iron Age sites, reflecting the diversity of types and functions of feasts. This article presents new evidence for feasting related to the intermediate protohistoric period in the southern Levant, coming from Middle Chalcolithic…

  • An exploration of character traits and linear measurements for sexing mountain gazelle (Gazella gazella) skeletons

    Open Access•N D Munro, Guy Bar-Oz et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Archaeological Science•2011•Cited by: 14•References: 23

  • Back to Tel Tsaf

    D Rosenberg, Florian Klimscha et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of the Israel Prehistoric…•2014

    Danny Rosenberg, Florian Klimscha, Philip J. Graham, Austin (Chad) Hill, Lior Weissbrod, Inbar Ktalav, Serena Love, Sonia Pinsky, Emily Hubbard, Elisabetta Boaretto, דני רוזנברג, פלוריאן קלימשה, פיליפ גרהם, צ'אד היל, ליאור וויסברוד, ענבר קטלב, סרינה לאב, סוניה פינסקי, אמילי הוברד, אליזבטה בוארטו, בחזרה לצף - דו"ח ראשוני על עונת 2013 של הפרויקט המחודש / Back to Tel Tsaf: A Preliminary Report on the 2013 Season of the Renewed Project, Mitekufat Hae…

  • Mapping with Aerial Photographs

    Austin C Hill, Austin Hill et al.•ARTICLE•Near Eastern Archaeology•2014•Cited by: 6•References: 2

    A rapidly expanding array of innovative technologies, combined with traditional techniques, allow more sophisticated photographic and photogrammetric techniques to document and analyze archaeological features, sites, and landscapes. With multiple ways to put a camera aloft over archaeological sites and landscapes, aerial photographs are more than a “bird's eye view.” Over five seasons at the Chalcolithic Period (c. 4500–3700 b.c.e.) site of Marj …

  • The “land of conjecture

    Yorke M Rowan, Gary O Rollefson et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Field Archaeology•2015•Cited by: 9•References: 17

    Major cultural transformations took place in the southern Levant during the late prehistoric periods (ca. late 7th–4th millennia b.c.). Agropastoralists expanded into areas previously only sparsely occupied and secondary animal products played an increasingly important economic role. In the arable parts of the southern Levant, the olive in particular became increasingly significant and may have played a part in expanded exchange contacts in the r…

  • Gazelles, Liminality, and Chalcolithic Ritual

    M Price, Max D Price et al.•ARTICLE•Bulletin of the American Schools…•2016

    Endangered today, gazelles were both economically and symbolically important to the peoples of the ancient Near East. In various contexts, the gazelle has represented liminality, death, and rebirth. Gazelles held special significance in the southern Levant, where archaeologists have documented cases, spanning 20,000 years, of ritual behavior involving gazelle body parts. What roles did gazelles play during the Chalcolithic (ca. 4500–3600 B.C.), a…

  • Feasting at Marj Rabba, An Early Chalcolithic Site in the Galilee

    Open Access•Austin C Hill, M Price et al.•ARTICLE•Oxford Journal of Archaeology•2016•Cited by: 2•References: 26

    Feasting is a common part of human culture in the present and past that can serve a variety of roles such as creating and maintaining social identities within and between social groups. In zooarchaeology, feasting evidence, rather than the accumulated and mixed refuse from long‐term consumption, often gives us some of the only data from individual events at a site. A cattle bone refuse pit at the site of Marj Rabba, Israel, provides evidence for …

  • Ruwayda

    Andrew Petersen, Faisal Abdullah Al-Naimi et al.•ARTICLE•Post-Medieval Archaeology•2016•References: 3

    Ruwayda was first identified as an archaeological site in the 1970s and was excavated between 2009 and 2014. Despite a paucity of documentary evidence, this large settlement, which extends over an area of more than 90 hectares, contains a number of features indicative of an urban settlement including two mosques, a series of warehouses, a large multi-period fort, large courtyard houses interspersed with smaller, less substantial structures and a …

  • Droning on in the Badia

    Austin C Hill, Yorke M Rowan et al.•ARTICLE•Near Eastern Archaeology•2017•Cited by: 1•References: 11

    Drones, or Unpiloted Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), are quickly changing approaches to archaeological mapping. They are effective tools for documenting smaller ancient features that might be missed by the resolution limitations of satellite imagery. As part of the Eastern Badia Archaeological Project, this article presents the preliminary results of a large-scale aerial survey of Wadi al-Qattafi, Jordan undertaken to map the kites and smaller features c…

  • The Late Neolithic Presence in the Black Desert

    Yorke M Rowan, Gary Rollefson et al.•ARTICLE•Near Eastern Archaeology•2017•Cited by: 5•References: 9

    Major cultural transformations took place in the southern Levant during the late prehistoric periods (ca. mid-seventh through fourth millenna B.C.E.). General syntheses rarely include more than cursory mention of the more arid regions of the southern Levant (Negev, eastern and southern Jordan). The Eastern Badia Archaeological Project [EBAP] study area comprises a west–east transect across the southern part of the eastern badia, selected to inclu…

  • Detecting prehistoric landscape features using thermal, multispectral, and historical imagery analysis at Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie, Illinois

    Open Access•Madeleine Mcleester, J Casana et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Archaeological Science…•2018•Cited by: 11•References: 22

  • Economical drone mapping for archaeology

    Open Access•Austin C Hill•ARTICLE•Journal of Archaeological Science…•2019•Cited by: 1•References: 6

  • A New Era in Spatial Data Recording

    Open Access•Austin C Hill, Fred Limp et al.•ARTICLE•Advances in Archaeological Practice•2019•Cited by: 8•References: 3

    Archaeologists have long recognized that precise three-dimensional coordinates are critical for recording objects and features across sites and landscapes. Traditionally, for relatively small areas, an optical transit or, more recently, an electronic distance measurement device (EDM) has been used to acquire these three-dimensional points. While effective, such systems have significant limitations in that they require a clear line of site. Real-t…

  • The (W)Hole Picture

    Open Access•Morag M Kersel, Austin C Hill•ARTICLE•International Journal of Cultural…•2019•Cited by: 12•References: 41

    How do archaeologists, governments, law enforcement, and a local non-governmental organization react to a hole in the ground—a hole that is the direct result of archaeological site looting? Whatever the response, the aim is the same: the protection of Jordanian cultural heritage through a curtailing of archaeological looting. New to the standard suite of responses are unpiloted aerial vehicles (UAVs). A comprehensive approach to the landscape, wh…

  • The bioarchaeology of mid-Holocene pastoralist cemeteries west of Lake Turkana, Kenya

    Open Access•E A Sawchuk, Susan Pfeiffer et al.•ARTICLE•Archaeological and Anthropological…•2019•Cited by: 14•References: 42

    Early herders in eastern Africa built elaborate megalithic cemeteries ~ 5000 BP overlooking what is now Lake Turkana in northwestern Kenya. At least six 'pillar sites' were constructed during a time of rapid change: cattle, sheep, and goats were introduced to the basin as the lake was shrinking at the end of the African Humid Period. Cultural changes at this time include new lithic and ceramic technologies and the earliest monumentality in easter…

  • Late Prehistory of the Lower Galilee

    Yorke M Rowan, Morag M Kersel et al.•ARTICLE•Bulletin of the American Schools…•2020

    In the southern Levant, fundamental changes in economic organization, mortuary practices, and settlement patterns took place during the 5th to early 4th millennium b.c.e., or the Chalcolithic period (ca. 4500–3700/3600 b.c.e.). Our best evidence derives from sites in the Negev, and to a lesser degree, the Jordan Valley and Golan Heights, and the mortuary sites along the coast. The goal of the Galilee Prehistory Project is to examine this period b…

  • Inscribed landscapes in the Black Desert

    Open Access•Austin C Hill, Yorke M Rowan et al.•ARTICLE•Arabian archaeology and epigraphy•2020•Cited by: 5•References: 28

    Petroglyphs are well known in the Negev, eastern and southern Jordan, and the Arabian Peninsula. Intensive documentation of hundreds of petroglyphs at the site of Wisad Pools in the Black Desert of eastern Jordan records animals, humans, hunting traps and geometric designs, connecting people and places to the larger landscape. These were recorded at the landscape scale with drones and photogrammetry, and the local scale through the construction o…

  • Databases, Drones, Diggers, and Diplomacy

    Open Access•Morag M Kersel, Austin C Hill•ARTICLE•Journal of Field Archaeology•2020•Cited by: 6•References: 39

    Looting of archaeological sites and thefts from cultural institutions in the Middle East is driven by an international demand for artifacts. Despite the efforts of Ministries of Culture, Departments of Antiquities, cultural heritage NGOs, and local communities, landscapes are destroyed, sites are pillaged, and museums are ransacked across the region. Like other countries, Jordan has a demand driven looting problem rooted in the legal and illegal …

  • A Council Circle at Etzanoa? Multi-sensor Drone Survey at an Ancestral Wichita Settlement in Southeastern Kansas

    Open Access•J Casana, Elise Jakoby Laugier et al.•ARTICLE•American Antiquity•2020•Cited by: 2•References: 24

    This article presents results of a multi-sensor drone survey at an ancestral Wichita archaeological site in southeastern Kansas, originally recorded in the 1930s and believed by some scholars to be the location of historical 'Etzanoa,' a major settlement reportedly encountered by Spanish conquistador Juan de Oñate in 1601. We used high-resolution, drone-acquired thermal and multispectral (color and near-infrared) imagery, alongside publicly avail…

  • Exploring archaeological landscapes using drone-acquired lidar

    Open Access•J Casana, Elise Jakoby Laugier et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Archaeological Science…•2021•Cited by: 1•References: 24

  • On Hedgehogs and Marvelous Minds

    Open Access•Austin C Hill, Morag M Kersel et al.•ARTICLE•Advances in Archaeological Practice•2021•References: 9

    The collection of 3D point data is a common bottleneck for archaeological excavations despite an increasing range of powerful spatial data collection technologies. Total stations often require a dedicated operator, and they are optimal for excavation-level data collection over relatively short line-of-site distances. Precision Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) require reliable communication with constellations of distant satellites and m…

  • Unpiloted Aerial Vehicle Acquired Lidar for Mapping Monumental Architecture

    Open Access•M D Mccoy, J Casana et al.•ARTICLE•Advances in Archaeological Practice•2021•Cited by: 4•References: 18

    As lidar becomes a regular part of surveying, ground-based platforms (handheld, mobile, and terrestrial lidar) and airborne platforms (piloted aircraft) are being joined by unpiloted aerial vehicle (UAV)–acquired lidar. We present a method for leveraging UAV-acquired lidar data with data collected using different lidar platforms (terrestrial and piloted aircraft), at a range of resolutions (1 to +1,000 points per m 2 ) and geographic scales. We u…

  • Mapping Ancient Architecture via Unpiloted Aerial Vehicle-acquired LiDAR

    M D Mccoy, J Casana et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of the Polynesian Society•2022

    At present there is no systematic record of the size, form or density of architecture at Hawaiian royal centres. We report on the results of a UAV LiDAR survey of one of the best-preserved examples of a royal centre in the archipelago: Hōlualoa Royal Centre, Kona District, Hawai'i Island. The resolution of our data (0.3-0.1 m) is far superior to previous airborne LiDAR surveys (1.0 m); however, several factors, including thick understory vegetati…

  • The Jarigole mortuary tradition reconsidered

    Open Access•E A Sawchuk, E A Hildebrand et al.•ARTICLE•Antiquity•2022•Cited by: 3

    The megalithic pillar sites found around Lake Turkana, Kenya, are monumental cemeteries built approximately 5000 years ago. Their construction coincides with the spread of pastoralism into the region during a period of profound climate change. Early work at the Jarigole pillar site suggested that these places were secondary burial grounds. Subsequent excavations at other pillar sites, however, have revealed planned mortuary cavities for predomina…

  • Multi-sensor drone survey of ancestral agricultural landscapes at Picuris Pueblo, New Mexico

    Open Access•J Casana, Severin Fowles et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Archaeological Science•2023•Cited by: 5•References: 13

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