Abstract
Mapping is one of the most fundamental and important enterprises for cave archaeologists not only for research, but integral to cave management and heritage preservation. Using traditional cartography techniques is often a tedious and long-term project involving numerous field seasons and thousands of measurements. Capturing 3D spaces using these 2D techniques is clunky and often unsatisfying when recording features or chambers that align and overlap vertically. Due to the complexity of the spaces, accuracy is often sacrificed in the interest of time and traditionally cave features are "sketched" even in the best-case scenarios when measurements are collected from stations or physical baselines. New technologies allow archaeologists to rapidly collect 3-dimensional spatial data at an unprecedented level of accuracy. Employing a case study from Belize, we illustrate a methodological advancement in map-making using LiDAR imagery.
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