1. COUPLED TIME LAPSE PHOTOGRAPHY AND PHOTOGRAMMETRY FOR HIGH PRECISION MAPPING OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR IN ETHNOARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH.
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SUROVELL, TODD A., O'BRIEN, MATTHEW J., and PELTON, SPENCER R.
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CHRONOPHOTOGRAPHY ,PHOTOGRAMMETRY ,HUMAN behavior ,ETHNOARCHAEOLOGY ,ARCHAEOLOGICAL research - Abstract
Ethnoarchaeological studies attempt to link human behavior to material remains for the purpose of developing archaeological method and theory. Traditional studies in spatial ethnoarchaeology have focused on mapping features and refuse, but the spatial distribution of the behaviors that produced them, the thing that interests us most, has for good reason gone largely undocumented. Until recently, it was not technically possible to map people in space in a way that is simultaneously accurate, precise, and unobtrusive. In this paper, we discuss the use of time-lapse photography and photogrammetry for the direct, frequent, and high precision mapping of human behavior in ethnographic contexts. Using two experiments, we show that this method can produce human locational data that are accurate and have submeter precision, typically of 25 cm or less. We illustrate the utility of this method by examining how the exterior space of a camp of Dukha reindeer herders in northern Mongolia is divided by household. We argue this method provides much needed data on how humans use space while allowing for the collection of ancillary behavioral and contextual information from imagery. As such, time-lapse photography and photogrammetry could become part of the standard toolkit for ethnoarchaeological research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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