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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. Science communicators are in an unprecedented time of digital innovation and global connectivity that has given rise to accessible and engaging projects, including podcasts, TikToks, apps, and interactive websites. These platforms have demonstrated how the power to create and disseminate narratives can shift from a select few to the...
Engaging with the Hell Gap Digital Archives through the Lens of Ruthann Knudson's "The Early Expeditions" (2021)
This is an abstract from the "Paleo Lithics to Legacy Management: Ruthann Knudson—Inawa’sioskitsipaki" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Ruthann Knudson's chapter, "The Early Expeditions: University of Wyoming, Harvard University, and the Peabody Museum," in *Hell Gap: A Stratified Paleoindian Campsite at the Edge of the Rockies, pulls together a range of experiences from the earliest discovery of the site. The chapter unfolds like a road map through...
Enhancing Access to Arabian Rock Art Archives (2018)
Petroglyphs and inscriptions have been investigated in the Arabian Peninsula at least since 1879, when Lady Anne and Wilfrid Blunt crossed the An Nafud desert and stopped at the now famous site of Jubbah in northern Saudi Arabia. Since that time explorers from England, Belgium, Germany, the US, and the Saudi Department of Antiquities, have recorded images from north to south. Archival materials, including field notes, photographs and letters are available at various institutions, but there is no...
Enhancing Ceramic Petrography through Deep Learning (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Ceramic Petrographers in the Americas: Recent Research and Methodological Advances" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Clay recipes reveal information about the local geology and the inclusion of different additives that make up a vessel, which in turn reflects the social, environmental, and technological context of ceramic manufacture. Ceramic petrography has long been instrumental in shedding light on key manufacturing...
Establishing a Space for Archaeologists in Gaming: The Development of the ArchaeoGaming Collective (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Digitizing Archaeological Practice: Education and Outreach in the Archaeogaming Subdiscipline" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The subdiscipline of archaeogaming has gained traction over the last several years, applying archaeological methods to and in video and tabletop games. Archaeology as a field focuses on concepts of space and place (and their roles in the past) quite literally, and it lends itself well to game...
Ethics, Etiquette and Engagement: The Role of Archaeologists in Active Opposition (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Interactions with Pseudoarchaeology: Approaches to the Use of Social Media and the Internet for Correcting Misconceptions of Archaeology in Virtual Spaces" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Stewardship in archaeology has had it's run around the debate block regarding definitions and scope as to whom and what archaeologists are exactly protecting and promoting out of the archaeological record. Ethical principles of public...
Evaluating Digital Workflows in Academic and CRM Settings (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological field research can be expensive for a student or a small cultural resource management (CRM) firm. This poster proposes inexpensive and efficient methods for students conducting field research and CRM companies with limited startup resources. We discuss the results of field testing our digital workflow, which utilizes Avenza Maps Pro, a...
An Examination of Commingled Atlantoaxial Joints by Deviation Analysis (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Continued Advances in Method and Theory for Commingled Remains" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This study builds on previous research that incorporated deviation analyses into sorting commingled human remains. This presentation will analyze a relatively untested joint surface, the atlantoaxial joint, to exclude potential commingled joint pairs. Virtual models were created at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville...
Examining Archaeology, Society, and the Promise of Integrating ‘Big’ Data from Archaeological and non-Archaeological Sources. (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Archaeological Vision in the Age of Big Data" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In order for digitally published data to be useful it has to be useable, and in the case of big-data, interoperable with other data sources. This paper explores one way in which this can be accomplished through an examination of how archaeological site densities across the eastern and midwestern United States relate to social factors such as...
Examining Recent Archaeological Findings at the Bronze Age Korean Settlement of Jungdo Using an Economic Perspective (2019)
This is an abstract from the "New Evidence, Methods, Theories, and Challenges to Understanding Prehistoric Economies in Korea" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent archaeological excavations at the Jungdo site, Chuncheon, Korea have revealed a rare ditch-enclosed Bronze Age settlement in which more than 1,000 pit houses and 100 dolmens were found. As a large-scale complex settlement with evidence of spatial demarcation that divides the site into...
Falconing the Paleolithic: High-Resolution Aerial Mapping of Northern Mongolian Upper Paleolithic Sites and Landscapes (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper will discuss the use of high-resolution aerial drone mapping to better understand the cultural landscape, complex geomorphology, and site formation processes in the northern Mongolia’s mountainous forest-steppe environment. In recent years, pedestrian surveys of the Tolbor River (Ikh Tulberiin Gol) and neighboring tributaries (Naryn Tulberiin,...
Finding Fort Clatsop: Results of Fresh Geophysical Surveys and GIS Integration of Past Data (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 2022, Washington State University archaeologists working in conjunction with the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation and the National Parks Service conducted a ground penetrating radar (GPR) survey of the famous Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Site— Fort Clatsop, Oregon— in a fresh attempt to locate the remains of the fort. Evidence associated with...
FLAME: Framing the Late Antique and Early Medieval Economy (2019)
This is an abstract from the "The State of the Art in Medieval European Archaeology: New Discoveries, Future Directions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The FLAME project is a collaborative effort of a dozen scholars worldwide to track the production and circulation of coinage in western Eurasia from CE 325-750 in order to investigate the transition from ancient economies to those of the Middle Ages in Europe, North Africa, and Western and Central...
Following in the Footsteps of the National Geographic Society's Original Katmai Expeditions (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster, combined with a virtual reality headset, will present the methods and results of the multi-disciplinary research project "Following in the footsteps of the National Geographic Society’s original Katmai expeditions" carried out in partnership with the National Geographic Society (NGS), Explore.org and Katmai National park. The project sought to...
Fort Walton Formations: Examining Geospatial Trends in Artifacts and Architecture at the Lake Jackson Site in Florida (2018)
Located in Northwest Florida, Lake Jackson is a Fort Walton(Mississippian) period site with seven mounds, borrow pits, wall-trench architecture, and mortuary objects suggesting interregional interaction. This work examines geospatial relations between artifact distributions, known structural remains, and mound alignments in relation to the landscape. New excavation data from previously unexplored areas and digital presentations of associated artifact densities allows for new views of occupation...
From Bluffs to Floodplain: A Spatial Approach to Mississippian Communities in the Ozarks of Arkansas (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Adventures in Spatial Archaeometry: A Survey of Recent High-Resolution Survey and Measurement Applications" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Mississippian (ca. AD 1000–1500) occupation of the Ozarks in Northwest Arkansas is known through few multiple-mound ceremonial centers in river valleys and from rockshelters along limestone bluff lines. Few permanent habitation sites are recorded, and understanding how sites...
From Field to Screen: Best Practices for Digital Recording and Global Sharing of Catacombs from Late Roman Sicily (2018)
Ten years after the seminal research on the digital recording of the monumental complex of The Catacombs of Saint Domitilla at Rome, undertaken by the Österreichische Akademie Der Wissenschaften , the virtualization and the dissemination of 3d models of Late Roman catacombs is still a challenging research topic. While the catacombs of Rome are consistently considered for cutting edge digital archaeology projects, the underground cemeteries of Late Roman Sicily, the second in importance to those...
From Invention to Methodology: the overlooked "DIY" in everyday archaeology (2015)
Archaeology has always been "DIY". It has borrowed nearly all of its physical tools and many of its intellectual instruments as well. In this still new, 21st century realm of digital archaeology our implements look different, but their basic implementation does not. From the shovel to the computer, from the trowel to the database, from the paintbrush to the paint program, archaeology has had to teach itself how to adapt an object - physical or digital - to the needs of the discipline. Using the...
From McLoughlin and Mills to Ikanum and Inclusion: Broadening the Understanding of tumwata (Oregon City) History through Indigenous Historiography (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Emergent Indigenous place theories are developing effective “gaps analyses” of archaeological and historical datasets caused by the social contexts in which existing dominant culture narratives have been written, interpreted, and projected. Archaeological and historical methodologies for researching and re-centering the stories of historically excluded...
From Stone to Screen: Squeezing into the World of Digital Archaeology (2015)
As the field of Digital Archaeology becomes increasingly prevalent, large-scale projects tend to dominate both thinking about and approaches towards the digital landscape. Scholars and students with smaller budgets and resources are often at a disadvantage; we believe renewed energy should be devoted to exploring the value and integrity of small-scale projects. This poster presents From Stone to Screen, a multi-disciplinary, collaborative, and open-access digitization project launched in 2012...
From Trench to Tablet: Field Recording, Interpreting, and Publishing in the Age of Digital Archaeology (2017)
Since the arrival of robust mobile tablet devices in 2010, archaeological documentation has increasingly become born-digital. The adoption of digital tools and practices has not gone unnoticed, with reactions ranging from enthusiastic acceptance to outright skepticism. Significantly, scholars are beginning to offer more critical and reflexive views of the issues surrounding the use of mobile devices in archaeological fieldwork, interpretation, and dissemination. The ability to disseminate...
From Zhoukoudian to Shuidonggou: The 100-Year Improvement of Paleolithic Excavation in China (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Developing Paleolithic Excavation Methods for the Twenty-First Century" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. For field excavation, it is most important to record and collect as much information as possible due to its non-repeatability. In China, the first formal Paleolithic excavation was in Shuidonggou site on 1923. But the excavation in Zhoukoudian in 1932 attracted more attention not only because the site was located in...
Game Save Data Is Missing or Cannot Be Read: A Twenty-First-Century Crisis of Digital Archaeological Site Loss (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Leveling Up: Gaming and Game Design in Archaeological Education and Outreach" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 2023, the first study of its kind by the Video Game History Foundation determined that 87% of video games made before 2010 are critically endangered. What was once considered a fun but silly form of entertainment has grown into a multibillion-dollar global industry spawning competitive scholastic and...
Geo-Referenced Spatial Data Analyses on Coastal Erosion Sites: the Final 3D Examination of the Pictish Smithy at the Site of Swandro, Orkney Islands (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Accelerating Environmental Change Threats to Cultural Heritage: Serious Challenges, Promising Responses" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Coastal erosion sites contain the same complexity as any other sites, however, the sequences are often truncated and the recovery conditions require adaptive approaches. During the summer of 2018, the excavation of Structure 3, the ‘Pictish Smithy’, concluded. Here we present the...
Geomatics for Landscape Archaeology: Dreams of Eternal Youth (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Developments and Challenges in Landscape Archaeology" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Geographic information technologies already have a long history of use in archaeology. In fact, archaeology has perhaps been the field of humanities where these technologies have reached the most widespread development, in many cases becoming part of the “standard package” of work for any archaeologist. To what extent is this true, or...