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From Mounds to Maps to Models: Visualizing Ancient Architecture Across Landscapes Heather Richards-Rissetto University of Nebraska-Lincoln, [email protected]

Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/anthropologyfacpub Part of the Archaeological Anthropology Commons, Digital Humanities Commons, Geographic Information Sciences Commons, Landscape Architecture Commons, Latin American Languages and Societies Commons, and the Urban Studies and Planning Commons Richards-Rissetto, Heather, "From Mounds to Maps to Models: Visualizing Ancient Architecture Across Landscapes" (2013). Anthropology Faculty Publications. Paper 64. http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/anthropologyfacpub/64

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$EVWUDFW— Since the onset of settlement pattern studies in the 1950s, landscape mapping projects have become an archaeological mainstay. Remote sensing technologies such as lidar, photogrammetry, and SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) steadily reveal new archaeological sites. For landscape archaeology, the detection and mapping of small architectural complexes and households offers important data to contextualize larger (often already known) sites and perform regional analyses. However, because the majority of sites remain unexcavated, analysis is limited, and yet Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and 3D Visualization are expanding the possible uses for older and newly-acquired data on unexcavated mounds. This paper describes a GIS approach to interpolate architectural data from maps of unexcavated mounds into 3D models useful for landscape archaeology. The case study is the ancient Maya city of Copan—today a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Honduras. 

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