Abstract
Through the growth and development of satellite imagery and panoramic street photography championed by Google Earth, a mass archive of accessible imagery has been created documenting intimate material worlds frozen in space and time. Utilizing these newly available forms of public data, our team (built of one historical archaeologist, one GIS technician, and one statistician) conducted a virtual pedestrian survey of 1000 randomly selected home fronts in Oakland, California, implementing a five-facet rating scale to document evidence of resident investment. Personal investment was compared to city investment to test for bias in use of replacement strategies within negatively characterized neighborhoods as opposed to refinement within positively characterized neighborhoods. We argue that through innovative selection of subject material, interdisciplinary collaborations, and the utilization of all available tools, historical archaeology will continue to expand in scope and relevance.
| Original language | American English |
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| State | Published - 2015 |
| Event | The 80th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology - San Francisco, California. Duration: Jan 1 2015 → … |
Conference
| Conference | The 80th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology |
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| Period | 1/1/15 → … |
Keywords
- Contemporary Archaeology
- Built Landscapes
- GIS
Disciplines
- Archaeological Anthropology
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