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DOCUMENT Citation Only Laura Harrison.

The recent ‘digital turn’ in archaeology has spurred methodological advances and new research directions, with wide ranging impacts at multiple scales. The proliferation of imaging, remote sensing, laser scanning and photogrammetry applications has, at times, outpaced considerations about data archiving, digital epistemologies, and accessibility. This can lead to circumstances in which the creation of digital datasets is privileged over public dissemination or scholarly output – a situation that...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrea Kruse.

Archaeology is changing from the data collection and specialized publishing to gaining deeper knowledge from past collections and sharing them to the wider public. Digital archives are now easily accessible with open source tools and the internet, which allows not only for collaboration with other researchers outside their agencies but engages a larger public with cultural heritage. This poster describes a digital archaeology project that uses historical photographs to engage and inform the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marta Diaz-Guardamino.

Formal approaches to rock art traditionally focused on meaning and representation. Rock art images and panels were treated as static representations of symbolic frameworks while their materiality and active role in cultural production were overlooked. Rock art is the product of the dynamic interplay between people, tools and the rock surface. The properties of the rock panel have the capacity to shape rock art production as much as the skill and knowledge held by the engraver/painter and the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chelsea Gardner. Christine Johnston.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster presents the results of a 2021–2022 survey examining current uses of digital media and resources in teaching the cultures of the ancient Mediterranean, West Asia, and North Africa. For this study, digital media were defined as mass-communication products in different digital formats (videos, podcasts, blogs, etc.), while digital resources...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Julie Wesp. Justin Johnson. Hope Eisenstein. Santiago Tobón Grajales S.J.. Felipe Gaitán Ammann.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeological Futures through a Virtual Past" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This interdisciplinary project uses photogrammetry and video game development software to capture and digitally recreate the interior of the San Ignacio church in Bogotá, Colombia. Established in 1610, this church served as the mother church for the Society of Jesus in Nueva Granada and continues to be one of the most spectacular examples of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Douglas Gann.

Under the guidance of E. Charles Adams and Richard C. Lange, the Homol’ovi Research Program (HRP) was one of the first archaeological research programs in the southwest culture area to incorporate three-dimensional computer aided drafting (3D CAD) into their archaeological practice. By the adoption of a 3D modeling strategy, the HRP was able to foster concurrent developments in new media technologies to better share archaeological research with the general public. Through the use of 3D modeling...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lynne Goldstein.

Since 2008, Michigan State University has had an official Campus Archaeology Program (http://campusarch.msu.edu) which trains students, engages with a varied public, and mitigates all ground-disturbing activity undertaken by the campus, regardless of whether it falls under state or federal law. I created and continue to direct this unique program. No other campus has the extensive mandate, budget, or administrative support that we have been able to create, and while I oversee all activities,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carla Klehm. Stefania Merlo.

This is an abstract from the "Democratizing Heritage Creation: How-To and When" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Fostering digitally enabled equitable participation in heritage production is a major component of democratizing heritage creation. Whilst substantial progress has been made in ensuring that digital data and infrastructure complies with the principles of FAIR (findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability) and LOUD (linked...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alec McLellan. Cara Tremain.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Threats to ancient Maya cultural heritage sites – from modern construction, looting, agricultural intensification, and burgeoning tourism – are an ongoing challenge in Belize. This is especially true of the northwest region of Belize, in the periphery of the well-known site of Lamanai, which has been hard-hit by looting and a growing community of farmers...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emanuel Moss. Christopher H. Roosevelt.

Digital methods in archaeology have led to new ways of recording, analyzing, and presenting archaeological sites and materials, but these new methods are adopted within the context of previously existing practices of archaeological work. Some digital recording methods in excavation build upon and sometimes displace long-standing analog methods with proven results. Digital representations of cultural materials present novel interpretive affordances compared to analog representations that, while...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katherine Shurik.

This is an abstract from the "Towards a Standardization of Photogrammetric Methods in Archaeology: A Conversation about 'Best Practices' in An Emerging Methodology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Over the past 20 years, technology has been developing at great speeds. Multiple methods of digitization have been emerging and been applied to archaeology. The most commonly used tools have been photogrammetry and laser scanning. However, one of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lexie Lowe.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Where Accessibility and Inclusion Meet: Archaeology in the Age of Covid and Beyond" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Discussions concerning accessibility to publications and data have encouraged many within the archaeological community to consider the potential that digital technologies have in supporting a more inclusive field. The current global pandemic has only accentuated the relevance--or rather, the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Fletcher.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Although field notebooks are created as a resource for future archaeologists to reference in their research, the labor required to digitize handwritten notes presents a barrier to their incorporation in state-of-the-art computational analyses. In this research, I explore if image pre-processing can improve the accuracy of text extracted from handwritten...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexander Nalewaik. Edward Gonzalez-Tennant.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Ocala National Forest is home to many, significant New Deal sites. Juniper Springs Recreational area is one of the first sites constructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in the forest (1936). Its construction was part of an early CCC experiment exploring the efficacy of federally funded tourist sites to stabilize local economies during the Great Depression. As part of this...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jolene Smith.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Digital Technologies and Public Archaeology" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Archaeologists using digital tools for outreach often face a specific set of challenges. Many organizations are working within low-resource environments, having small (or no) technology budgets or very restrictive I.T. policies. Archaeological information itself can be sensitive. Disclosure of specific locations can expose sites to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Evelyn Chan. Timothy Pugh. Kevin Schwarz.

This is an abstract from the "Hydro-Ecological System of the Maya in Petén, Guatemala" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A recent lidar survey of the Petén Lakes in Petén, Guatemala, has confirmed landscape modifications suggested by previous research and revealed new evidence of water management and settlement placement. Influenced by Joel Palka’s recent work among the Lacandon Maya, we consider domesticated waterscape features such as canals and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joel A Cook.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Digital Approaches in Nautical Archaeology", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the expansive history of U.S. naval operations in the First and Second World Wars, the large combatant vessels reign supreme. Many major coastal cities in the United States have a battleship or aircraft carrier docked in prime tourist areas and dedicated funds for the maintenance of these behemoths. But their smaller brethren,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ekaterina Menkina. Scott Macrae. Vo Thi Phuong Thuy. Le Ngoc Han.

This is an abstract from the "The Current State of Archaeological Research across Southeast Asia" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The drone-imagery sub project uses drone based aerial photography and photogrammetry to document the water gates, walls, enclosures, canals, and shrines of Hoa Lu, supplementary to the IRAW@HoaLu settlement and survey research. Amidst the urban-landscape development, the cultural and natural features are subject to time....

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Anderson. Thaddeus Bissett. Stephen Yerka. Joshua J. Wells. Eric Kansa.

The impacts of past and projected climate change and specifically sea level fluctuations on heritage resources are examined across the southeastern US using site and environmental data integrated in DINAA (Digital Index of North American Archaeology). Minor changes in sea level have shaped human settlement from the late Pleistocene onward, including in recent millennia when shorelines are incorrectly assumed to have stabilized at or near present levels. In the near term, tens of thousands of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jon Harman.

This is an abstract from the "The Art and Archaeology of the West: Papers in Honor of Lawrence L. Loendorf" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 2014 – 16 I participated in Sacred Sites Research rock art documentation projects in Montana and Wyoming, led by Larry Lowendorf. My contribution was my expertise with the DStretch program, which I created. DStretch proved to be an important resource in aiding the documentation of sites and recognizing...

DOCUMENT Citation Only R Hussey.

New and economical methods of digital preservation have enabled archaeologists to both protect and increase public access to threatened heritage sites. Recent plans to rehabilitate a long sealed but structurally threatened subterranean dungeon associated with Christian slavery, The Mazmorras of Tetouan, Morocco, provided an ideal location to integrate cost-effective methods of digital preservation with municipal restoration proposals. The creation of an online virtual tour with moderately priced...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alisa Pettitt. Sven Fuhrmann.

Virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) applications can influence the user's perception of the world. In regards to archaeological sites these technologies can be used as educational tools to recreate past environments and offer interpretive perspectives on history. This research examines several archaeological sites in the Northern Virginia region and investigates how educational VR and AR applications developed through accessible, user-friendly platforms can aid in reconstructing and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alejandra May. Melissa Torquato. Trevor Keevil. Lauren Christopher. Erik Otárola-Castillo.

This is an abstract from the "Bayesian Archaeology" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Approximately 13,000 years ago, 37 genera of North American megafauna went extinct. Proboscideans, mammoths, and mastodons, specifically, were among the megafauna affected. Today, researchers continue to debate between three hypotheses to explain these North American Pleistocene mass extinctions: (1) human over-hunting, (2) climate change leading to a reduced niche,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Megan R Victor.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "(Re)Presenting the Past: Archaeological Influences on Historical Narratives in Video Games" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Drawing on this year’s conference theme, historical archaeology is indeed a powerful means of pulling injustices into the light of examination and of addressing them in both the past and present. The field not only provides data on the recent past but also fosters meaningful...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrea Freeman. Darren Sjogren. Aaron Williams. Dianne Draper.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent studies in pedagogy indicate that knowledge acquisition and retention among millennials is facilitated when phased assessment criteria are used. Our multidisciplinary team (Archaeology and Geography) has employed a variety assignments around disruptive technologies (cellular telephones) in order to move students from elementary knowledge milestones...