For pedestrian archaeological surveys in agricultural regions, field plowing and crop cultivation are essential mechanisms for bringing artifacts to the surface and making them visible. Although agricultural land use can affect plowzone assemblages, few studies have tested the relationship between how frequently agricultural land is cultivated and the quantity of artifacts recovered. Such an evaluation would require a multiyear record of land use across extensive survey areas, thereby presenting numerous obstacles and challenges. Yet the ever-expanding availability of high temporal and spatial resolution satellite imagery datasets, combined with the accessibility of new tools for analyzing such datasets, makes studies of land-use intensity increasingly feasible. To demonstrate, we present our remote sensing–based evaluation of land-use intensity within the Province of Oristano (west-central Sardinia, Italy), where the Sinis Archaeological Project (SAP) has worked since 2018. Drawing on Sentinel-2 satellite imagery from the past six years, we investigate what factors may explain the modern-day distribution of land-use intensities, which areas SAP has targeted, and what effect land-use intensity has on artifact distribution. We find that modern-day land-use intensity is largely a legacy of recent land reclamation efforts and find no correlation between the intensity of surveyed fields and the quantity of materials recovered therein.