Spatially Integrated Social Science, published in 2004, features research by social scientists who are using various spatial analytical approaches, such as Geographic Information Systems. It includes a chapter I contributed that discusses cost-path analysis, a GIS-based technique for modeling how people move across a landscape. After an assessment of the various approaches for modeling cost-paths, I provide a case study of how cost-path analysis was used to assess the function of pre-Contact roadways during the Chaco era in the Puebloan Southwest.

The Reconstruction of Archaeological Landscapes through Digital Technologies (2003) is the result of a joint Italy-United States Workshop held at Boston University in 2001. Georgia State University graduate student Ron Hobgood and I co-authored a chapter on the use of digital technologies for reconstructing past behavior in the Puebloan Southwest. In addition to the cost-path analysis I conducted to understand the function of Chaco-era roadways, the chapter includes Ron's work on tower kiva viewsheds.

A 2000 publication of the British Archaeological Reports series, Virtual Reality in Archaeology includes a chapter I wrote that discusses the interpretive issues I faced when building three-dimensional models of pre-Contact Puebloan architecture, especially a model of a Chacoan great kiva. Since many elements of a realistic model can not be readily discovered in the archaeological record, the modeler must include architectural features derived from ethnographic accounts or other sources. An earlier version presented at the 2000 annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology is available online.