Precolumbian Archaeology Brief

Fieldwork & Site Updates

• 🔥 Submerged Maya Settlement: Researchers confirmed a large Mayan settlement with plazas, homes, and monuments...

Key advances in highland Maya underwater archaeology:

• Sonar and diving: 43 miles of transects and 2,400 dive minutes mapped platforms, plazas,...

New framework redefines dice recognition in preceramic assemblages.

• Attribute test uses measurable features from 293 historic Native American sets...

COPC enables direct web access to lidar/photogrammetry point clouds without full downloads, vital for remote sensing massive 3D data.

• Octree...

• RF superior on clean validation sets: lower root mean square error and higher correct classification rate vs. PLSR.
• PLSR better on external...

Rita Palacios urges rethinking Mesoamérica beyond geopolitical borders and academic definitions, drawing from pre-invasion Indigenous mobilities.

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Monte Albán's Tomb 7 boasts an extraordinary >500-object assemblage of gold, jade, turquoise, shell, crystal, and bone—Mixtec elite reuse of a Late...

Proposed revocation endangers Ancestral Puebloan fieldwork at Chaco, a high-complexity center (850-1250 AD) with great houses, kivas, and roads.

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Key evidence for Preceramic sedentism at Sturgeon Lake:

• Long-term occupation markers: stone tools, fire pits, lithic materials, and charcoal layers...

Mesoamerican agricultural origins, including domestication and irrigation, remain poorly understood due to few pertinent archaeological sites explored. This core methodological limitation demands targeted fieldwork in Preceramic contexts.

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