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Thomas G. Garrison
Researcher at Ithaca College
Publications - 23
Citations - 669
Thomas G. Garrison is an academic researcher from Ithaca College. The author has contributed to research in topics: Maya & Remote sensing (archaeology). The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 22 publications receiving 511 citations. Previous affiliations of Thomas G. Garrison include University of Southern California & Brown University.
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Ancient lowland Maya complexity as revealed by airborne laser scanning of northern Guatemala.
Marcello A. Canuto,Francisco Estrada-Belli,Thomas G. Garrison,Stephen Houston,Mary Jane Acuña,Milan Kováč,Damien Marken,Philippe Nondédéo,Luke Auld-Thomas,Cyril Castanet,David Chatelain,Carlos Chiriboga,Tomáš Drápela,Tibor Lieskovský,Alexandre Tokovinine,Antolín Velasquez,Juan Carlos Fernandez-Diaz,Ramesh Shrestha +17 more
TL;DR: The findings indicate that this Lowland Maya society was a regionally interconnected network of densely populated and defended cities, which were sustained by an array of agricultural practices that optimized land productivity and the interactions between rural and urban communities.
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Evaluating the use of IKONOS satellite imagery in lowland Maya settlement archaeology
Thomas G. Garrison,Stephen Houston,Charles Golden,Takeshi Inomata,Zachary Nelson,Jessica Munson +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, an extensive evaluation of the feasibility of using IKONOS satellite imagery in detecting sub-canopy Maya settlement in Peten, Guatemala is presented, with mixed or unpromising results.
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Recentering the rural: Lidar and articulated landscapes among the Maya
TL;DR: In this paper, large-scale lidar captures reveal special-purpose facilities for defense, surveillance, possible chocolate plantations under close supervision, orderly if defensible landscapes, agricultural works of landesque scope, and overall regional articulations with variable intensity of settlement.
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Putting Us on the Map: Remote Sensing Investigation of the Ancient Maya Landscape
TL;DR: In this article, the decay of these structures provides a unique microenvironment for the growth of vegetation as the levels of moisture and nutrition within the ruins vary substantially from those in the surrounding forest.
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Carbon isotopic ratios of wetland and terrace soil sequences in the Maya Lowlands of Belize and Guatemala
Timothy Beach,Sheryl Luzzadder-Beach,Richard E. Terry,Nicholas P. Dunning,Stephen Houston,Thomas G. Garrison +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the carbon isotope ratios of the humin part of soil organic matter from a range of sites in the central Maya Lowlands have been analyzed, including ancient Maya wetland fields, upland karst wetlands, ancient Maya aguadas (reservoirs), and ancient Maya terraces.