INTRODUCTION The Albuquerque country has been occupied by Indians more or less continuously for the last 26,000 years as shown by the many campsites, ruins, and modern pueblos found here. This area was in the past, as it is now, an attractive place for man to live and during much of this time it has probably been one of the most densely populated parts of New Mexico. There has been considerable...

Using resource-monitoring data from seven protected areas, the effectiveness of three campfire policies-campfire ban, designated campfires, and unregulated campfires-were assessed based on the number of fire sites and the amount of tree damage. Results indicate that unregulated campfire policies permitted substantial numbers of fire sites and tree damage in campsites, although fire bans did not...

Environmental impact assessment (EIA) is a key tool for both environmental and land management. It identifies potential adverse unintended consequences of the projects on use environment derives possible mitigation measures to address these impacts. Calculating volume severity impacts complex often relies selections simplifications. Moreover, calculating associated with nomadic-pastoral (dynami...

When archeologists discuss mobility, we are most often referring to a phenomenon that operates on the scale of kilometers, but much of human mobility, at least if measured in terms of frequency of movement, occurs at much smaller scales, ranging from centimeters to tens of meters. Here we refer to the movements we make within the confines of our homes or places of employment. With respect to no...

Since the outbreak of new crown, people’s lifestyles have undergone a radical change. Among them, travel plans been greatly restricted. Based on background post-epidemic era, this paper analyzes and compares changes in life before after epidemic, summarizes connection between “outdoor leisure” boom, proposes corresponding shared camp space design strategies based current development status real...

This article uses an environmental justice framework to determine whether inequalities exist for certain socioeconomic and racial groups with respect to the distribution of federal tourism sites in Southern Appalachia (SA). Federal tourism sites and campsites were mapped along with the census block groups (CBGs) using geographic information systems. CBGs within a 1,500-meter radius of these fed...

One of the more intractable problems that archaeobiologists struggle with is how to characterise ancient subsistence systems when the plant and animal remains that we study are incommensurate in so many ways. Three examples from the upper Euphrates and Iran illustrate how changes in plant remains are associated with changes in animal exploitation. Two of them consider the agropastoral continuum...

Abstract Although intra-site spatial approaches are considered a key factor when interpreting archaeological assemblages, these often based on descriptive, qualitative, and subjective observations. Currently, within the framework of research into taphonomy palimpsest dissection, several studies have begun to employ more quantitative objective techniques, implementing tools such as geostatistics...