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Mark D. McCoy

Researcher at Southern Methodist University

Publications -  50
Citations -  1338

Mark D. McCoy is an academic researcher from Southern Methodist University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Aotearoa & Geospatial analysis. The author has an hindex of 18, co-authored 50 publications receiving 1084 citations. Previous affiliations of Mark D. McCoy include San Jose State University & University of Otago.

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Archaeological assessment reveals Earth’s early transformation through land use

Lucas Stephens, +119 more
- 30 Aug 2019 - 
TL;DR: An empirical global assessment of land use from 10,000 years before the present (yr B.P.) to 1850 CE reveals a planet largely transformed by hunter-gatherers, farmers, and pastoralists by 3000 years ago, considerably earlier than the dates in the land-use reconstructions commonly used by Earth scientists.
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New Developments in the Use of Spatial Technology in Archaeology

TL;DR: Spatial technology is integral to how archaeologists collect, store, analyze, and represent information in digital data sets as discussed by the authors, and recent advances have improved our ability to look for and identify archaeological remains and have increased the size and complexity of our data sets.
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Airborne lidar survey of irrigated agricultural landscapes: An application of the slope contrast method

TL;DR: In this paper, a method called slope contrast mapping (SCLM) is proposed to identify and map discrete features of agricultural terraces in the North Kohala district, Hawai'i Island.
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Geospatial Big Data and archaeology: Prospects and problems too great to ignore

TL;DR: The near future of GBD in writing culture histories, making decisions, and visualizing the past is discussed and a case study from New Zealand is used to argue for the value of taking a data quantity-in-use approach to GBD.
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Archaeological evidence for agricultural development in Kohala, Island of Hawai'i

TL;DR: In this paper, a method developed for chronologically ordering the development of walls and trails constructed as the main structural features in three areas of the Kohala Dry Land Field System of Hawai'i Island is presented.