Archaeological Investigations of Magnetic Anomalies in the Northern Settlement Area at Actuncan, Belize

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dc.contributorJacobi, Keith
dc.contributorGalbraith, Marysia
dc.contributorBeasley, Virgil
dc.contributor.advisorLecount, Lisa
dc.contributor.authorTidwell, Jonathan Wade
dc.contributor.otherUniversity of Alabama Tuscaloosa
dc.date.accessioned2022-04-13T20:34:17Z
dc.date.available2022-04-13T20:34:17Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.descriptionElectronic Thesis or Dissertationen_US
dc.description.abstractThis study incorporated a landscape-scale geophysical approach to locate and excavate buried households in the commoner settlement area at the Maya site of Actuncan, Belize. The goal of this study is to provide a better understanding of the organization and spatial patterning of commoner Maya housing groups in the northern settlement area at Actuncan, Belize. To accomplish this, I have sought to use anomaly signatures from a magnetometry survey of this area to locate buried patio-focused groups and other structures not visible from the surface. The excavations targeted anomalies in areas that most resembled the areas of enhanced magnetism corresponding to patio-focused groups visible on the ground surface. Interpretations of the excavated remains was then made by considering the nature of architectural features, analysis of the artifact assemblages, and previously discovered remains in the vicinity of the excavations.en_US
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dc.identifier.otherhttp://purl.lib.ua.edu/182109
dc.identifier.otheru0015_0000001_0004262
dc.identifier.otherTidwell_alatus_0004M_14230
dc.identifier.urihttps://ir.ua.edu/handle/123456789/8441
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Alabama Libraries
dc.relation.hasversionborn digital
dc.relation.ispartofThe University of Alabama Electronic Theses and Dissertations
dc.relation.ispartofThe University of Alabama Libraries Digital Collections
dc.rightsAll rights reserved by the author unless otherwise indicated.en_US
dc.subjectActuncan
dc.subjectCommoner
dc.subjectMagnetometry
dc.subjectMaya
dc.subjectPractice theory
dc.subjectRemote sensing
dc.titleArchaeological Investigations of Magnetic Anomalies in the Northern Settlement Area at Actuncan, Belizeen_US
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etdms.degree.departmentUniversity of Alabama. Department of Anthropology
etdms.degree.disciplineArchaeology
etdms.degree.grantorThe University of Alabama
etdms.degree.levelmaster's
etdms.degree.nameM.A.

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