Abstract
Maya Settlement Patterns at El Pilar: Inventory of the Cultural Resources of the El Pilar Archaeological Reserve for Maya Flora and Fauna: Lidar and New Protocols for Archaeology under the Canopy
Highlights
We know that settlements leave enduring tracks of human land use for archaeologists to identify, map, and interpret
For the Maya, land use intensity can be evaluated by residential unit dispersal and settlement density and wealth distribution can be assessed by residential unit and settlement size and composition
We have been involved in a full survey of El Pilar with the ultimate aim to develop a complete map of the entire 20 sq. km of the El Pilar Archaeological Reserve for Maya Flora and Fauna
Summary
University of California, USA Submission: January 25, 2018; Published: March 29, 2018 *Corresponding author: Anabel Ford, American archaeologist, University of California, USA, Email: Population growth, land use, and agricultural needs figure among the prominent issues facing the world today. To understand the relationship between the subsistence potentials and the political demands that bear on interpretations of land management, detailed site-specific surveys as the one we are developing at El Pilar are required These surveys need to incorporate accurate topographic, soil, and settlement data, data largely illusive until now. With LiDAR, the topography is revealed and the large buildings and plazas are clear, it is the building blocks of the society, the residential unit as the minimum component of the settlement and the basic unit of all land use patterns that is fundamental to the ancient economy and essential to record These smallest units are the focus of the El Pilar settlement survey program, an outgrowth of the long-term goals set up with the Belize River Archaeological Settlement Survey (BRASS) in 1983. This process of validation takes a minimum of two teams of archaeologists and forest gardeners one full month to complete 1 sqkm
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