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Examining past research with new technologies: The Ewing Site revisited with ARCGIS
Reed, David Ross
Reed, David Ross
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2013-05
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During three summers in the late 1960s, the Ewing Site was excavated in the Four
Corners area of Colorado and was archived at Wichita State University. Since that time,
archaeological recovery methods and analysis technology has changed. Along with other
technological changes, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Technology has had a profound
impact in the worldof Cultural Resource Management. With the advent and implementation of
this new technology, archaeology has found a faster and easier way of examining data across
vast geographical areas.This allows for better probability studies for the location and protection
of sites across the UnitedStates. Landscapes can be examined to determine how people moved
across their environments such as hunting routes, natural resource usage, and migration studies.
Little has been done in applying this technology to older data and looking at site
level spatial relationships. Using the Ewing site as a template, there are several questions that
need to be addressed. The first is to determine if there is potential for the site to offer new
information. Next we need to determine if there is enough information still available in order to
make a proper assessment of the site. And finally we must ask, did we learn anything new? GIS
must further our knowledge of the people who once lived there to make it worth the effort of
applying to sites of this type. This information can be easily integrated at theinstitution level
and incorporated into other larger GIS databases that include data from all over aspecific region.
It could also be invaluable in sorting through vast collections that may have sat untouched since
the Great Depression and the early days of the Works Project Administration.Salvage
archaeology is an important aspect in the history of the profession within the United States, and
gaining accurate and important information in minimal time would serve to advance archaeology
as a whole.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Wichita State University, Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Dept. of Anthropology
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Wichita State University
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Copyright David Ross Reed, 2013.