Presentation by Jeffrey C. Howry, Ph.D.,

View the slides from this presentation. A video recording of the presentation is available by contacting the CGA. Additional resources provided by the author are linked to below:

Free sources for LiDAR processing.

New England States GIS Sources for LiDAR.

Link to Global Mapper software used for this analysis.

Abstract: The availability of high-resolution LiDAR in the past decade has changed our ability to understand historic settlements in the New and Old Worlds. For the first time we can peel back the curtain of time and understand on a broad scale how our predecessors organized their communities and their lives. Our evidence is no longer just words - we can now observe physical evidence of the works of generations of families and their communities as they shaped their surrounding landscapes and adapted to drastically different environments.

The presentation will illustrate how within just the past decade LiDAR has allowed us to examine the colonial landscape of Massachusetts in New England and the late historic landscape of Palestine. How LiDAR illuminates these historic landscapes will be explored and the patterns of occupation examined.

Speaker bio: Jeffrey C. Howry, Ph.D., is an Honorary Associate of the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East where he conducts research involving Near East historic landscapes and conducts archaeological surveys. Jeff's historic landscape work also encompasses Colonial New England where the regenerated hardwood forests hide the evidence of thousands of miles of stone walls constructed by generations of families in order to pursue farming. Jeff holds a Ph.D. in social anthropology and an M.A. in archaeology from Harvard University, and has published multiple journal articles, conducted seminars, and given numerous presentations on the archaeology of the Old and New Worlds.

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