Spatial interpretation at all scales has long been part of the archaeological discourse. Researchers and scholars have long sought to reconstruct social (or societal) organization from the archaeological record, as viewed through artifacts and features mapped across space. Even today archaeologists remain consumers of cartographic methodology, and thus of cartographic theory. It is important then to understand the significance of of cartography and historic maps in archaeological works.
Six miles north of Milford, Utah, was once a small seasonal wetland more of a sink than a lake that sat in a depression along the path of the Beaver River, was optimistically called Beaver Lake, and disappeared as white Read More …
Six miles north of Milford, Utah, was once a small seasonal wetland more of a sink than a lake—that sat in a depression along the path of the Beaver River, was optimistically called Beaver Lake, and disappeared as white settlers Read More …
Ethan Gannett takes us to Roberts Ranch Preservation Trust on the Cherokee Trail in Northern Colorado to demonstrate how the Oregon-California Trails Association maps and marks historic emigrant trails. Using an established protocol, OCTA is able to investigate and establish Read More …
Spending our winters in Arizona presents the opportunity to interface with the Southern Trails Chapter of OCTA. In February I was invited to accompany mapping members Tracy DeVault from Prescott, AZ, Mike Volberg from Ramona, CA, Greg McEachron from Seminole, Read More …
Members of OCTA’s Mapping and Marking Committee, and staff of the National Park Service (NPS), Bureau of Land Management (BLM), and University of Utah met in Salt Lake City from October 30 through November 1 to plan mapping activities and Read More …
Members of OCTA’s Mapping and Marking Committee, and staff of the National Park Service (NPS), Bureau of Land Management (BLM), and University of Utah met in Salt Lake City from October 30 through November 1 to plan mapping activities and Read More …
Little has been mapped at the level prescribed by OCTA’s Mapping Emigrant Trails (MET) Manual. The most comprehensive maps were completed by the National Park Service at a scale of 1:100,000 (one inch on the map representing 100,000 inches on Read More …
To this day archaeologists remain consumers of cartographic methodology, and thus of cartographic theory. It is important then to trace the history of theory in cartography and geography in the broader context of general social theory.
Leah Meisterlin and Gergely Baics demonstrate how mining data embedded in historical maps is opening new seams in experimental urban research.