How can drones help us find settlements long-lost to time? In episode 89, Jesse Casana from Dartmouth College's Department of Anthropology discusses his research into using multi-sensor drones to collect data about a major Native American settlement in what is now Southeastern Kansas. His article "A Council Circle at Etzanoa? Multi-sensor Drone Survey at an Ancestral Wichita Settlement in Southeastern Kansas," was published on August 24, 2020 with Elise Jakoby Laugier, Austin Chad Hill, and Donald Blakeslee in American Antiquity.
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Websites and other resources
Jesse's Spatial Archaeometry Lab (Twitter)
Video of Jesse presenting on his satellite-based archaeology in Syria
Video of Jesse presenting on his drone-based archaeology in Mexico & Illinois
Select media and press
Archaeology News Network | Ancient Origins |
Smithsonian Magazine | ArsTechnica | Atlas Obscura
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Hosts / Producers
Doug Leigh & Ryan Watkins
How to Cite
Leigh, D., Watkins, R., & Casana, J.. (2020). Parsing Science - Drones Revealing the Past. figshare. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.13392302
Music
What’s The Angle? by Shane Ivers
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