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A Test of Aerial Photography in an Estuarine Mangrove Swamp in Veracruz, Mexico

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

J. Simon Bruder ,
Elinor G. Large  and
Barbara L. Stark
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Abstract

A ground truth check confirmed the utility of color aerial photography for predicting and mapping archaeological sites in an estuarine mangrove swamp zone and for serving as a basis for settlement pattern studies. Accuracy of prediction was extremely high due to the sharp response of vegetation to slight differences in elevation.

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American Antiquity , Volume 40 , Issue 3 , July 1975 , pp. 330 - 337
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1975

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