How can drones help us find settlements long-lost to time? In episode 89, Jesse Casana from Dartmouth College's Department of Anthropology discusses his research into using multi-sensor drones to collect data about a major Native American settlement in what is now Southeastern Kansas. His article "A Council Circle at Etzanoa? Multi-sensor Drone Survey at an Ancestral Wichita Settlement in Southeastern Kansas," was published on August 24, 2020 with Elise Jakoby Laugier, Austin Chad Hill, and Donald Blakeslee in American Antiquity.



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Jesse's Spatial Archaeometry Lab (Twitter)

Video of Jesse presenting on his satellite-based archaeology in Syria

Video of Jesse presenting on his drone-based archaeology in Mexico & Illinois







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Leigh, D., Watkins, R., & Casana, J.. (2020). Parsing Science - Drones Revealing the Past. figshare.