Using GIS to Map Resource Availability in the East Saddle Mountains, Grant County, WA
Document Type
Poster
Campus where you would like to present
Ellensburg
Event Website
https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/source
Start Date
18-5-2020
Abstract
Humans have found ways to extract resources from the resource rich upland landscape of the Mid-Columbia Plateau for at least the last 11,000 years. However, due to a century of inconsistently managed projects in the uplands of the Mid-Columbia Plateau, the large datasets required to examine resource extraction methods are uncommon. In order to address this, Central Washington Archaeological Survey (CWAS) produced ten years of methodologically consistent field data from 1998 to 2006 and 2008 while surveying in the East Saddle Mountains. My research will use Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to identify both Lomatium habitat and quarry pits within the study area of CWAS field surveys in the East Saddle Mountains. By combining slope, aspect, soil data, and solar analyst, I will create a predictive model for Lomatium habitat. I will also interpret LiDAR data to identify quarry pits, alongside geologic interbeds containing raw toolstone. This information will then be made available for further spatial examination of the relationship between the extensive archaeological record of the East Saddle Mountains created by CWAS and precontact resource extraction.
Recommended Citation
Galloway, Mars, "Using GIS to Map Resource Availability in the East Saddle Mountains, Grant County, WA" (2020). Symposium Of University Research and Creative Expression (SOURCE). 59.
https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/source/2020/COTS/59
Department/Program
Geography
Additional Mentoring Department
https://cwu.studentopportunitycenter.com/2020/04/using-gis-to-map-resource-availability-in-the-east-saddle-mountains-grant-county-wa/
Using GIS to Map Resource Availability in the East Saddle Mountains, Grant County, WA
Ellensburg
Humans have found ways to extract resources from the resource rich upland landscape of the Mid-Columbia Plateau for at least the last 11,000 years. However, due to a century of inconsistently managed projects in the uplands of the Mid-Columbia Plateau, the large datasets required to examine resource extraction methods are uncommon. In order to address this, Central Washington Archaeological Survey (CWAS) produced ten years of methodologically consistent field data from 1998 to 2006 and 2008 while surveying in the East Saddle Mountains. My research will use Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to identify both Lomatium habitat and quarry pits within the study area of CWAS field surveys in the East Saddle Mountains. By combining slope, aspect, soil data, and solar analyst, I will create a predictive model for Lomatium habitat. I will also interpret LiDAR data to identify quarry pits, alongside geologic interbeds containing raw toolstone. This information will then be made available for further spatial examination of the relationship between the extensive archaeological record of the East Saddle Mountains created by CWAS and precontact resource extraction.
https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/source/2020/COTS/59
Faculty Mentor(s)
Sterling Quinn