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  • A GIS-based viewshed analysis of Chacoan tower kivas in the USSouthwest: were they for seeing or to be seen?

  • John Kantner, Ronald Hobgood
  • Journal:
    Antiquity / Volume 90 / Issue 353 / October 2016
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    15 September 2016, pp. 1302-1317
    Print publication:
    October 2016
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  • For years it has been assumed that tower kivas were observation points,using their high vantage to relay communications across the landscape, oracting as defensive outposts among the local population. Few of theseenigmatic structures have been excavated, and archaeologists haveconsequently turned to landscape survey methods to understand their role andfunction. Here, the authors contrast visibility and intervisibility withinthe surrounding viewshed of two tower kivas, Kin Ya'a and Haystack,providing an alternative perspective to traditional interpretations bysuggesting that rather than acting as lookout points, they were insteadcentral places built to be looked upon by the surrounding community.