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DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Cook. Grace Conrad. Joseph Chambers.

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. While archaeologists are quite good at communicating to each other through various professional outlets, we have not been particularly good at conveying our core findings and lessons for wider audiences. This seems particularly true in the Midwest United States. While there are likely many...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicoletta Maestri.

This is an abstract from the "The Urban Question: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Investigating the Ancient Mesoamerican City" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. One of the most pervasive changes in Mesoamerican early colonial period was the new form of urban and town configuration and their relations with the surrounding landscape. Native settlement abandonment, forced congregations, and changes in communication and trade routes profoundly...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chung Yu Liu.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This presentation examines the social structure change revealed by the interpretations of the abandoned settlement layouts through graphic-based spatial analysis for Kucapungane area of southern Taiwan. Kucapungane Rukai, an Austronesian indigenous tribe in Taiwan, has several abandoned settlements. The Kucapungane people lived in the Old-Kucapingane for the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Leigh Anne Ellison. Francis McManamon.

Archaeologists are busy all the time. Often stretching to meet a variety of professional obligations. CRM and government agency archaeologists are among the most stretched given the different directions that pull upon their professional lives. Scholarly pursuits; administrative, bureaucratic, regulatory, and public outreach responsibilities related to physical sites and collections, easily fill or over-fill their schedules. Now the care and curation of digital data adds to the piling up of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Blackwood.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Creating 3D models of cultural materials raises ethical concerns for how they are captured, stored, displayed, and utilized. Mainly, who is and who has the right to make these decisions? Professional societies and associations have established principles and codes of ethics related to best practices, but language pertaining to 3D models or digitally...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nada Hosking.

To deal with the destructive nature of archaeological excavations, today’s archaeologists are using new technologies to create 3D records of not only the archaeological sites, but also the archaeological process. This project explores how photogrammetry and 3D modelling can support theoretical approaches to the phenomena and processes by which Palaeolithic out-of-context imagery, especially that which is engraved, is produced. Using 3D technologies can allow researchers to simulate a variety of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emma Lewis-Sing. Oscar Moro Abadia. Julia Brenan.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In recent years, archaeologists have been increasingly interested in ‘places of shame’, i.e. places related to past traumatic, painful, or regrettable human actions. In this paper we argue this concept can be expanded to incorporate sites with negative ecological impact. In particular, the interpretation of places of single-use plastic waste accumulation as...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Julian Richards.

Archaeological data may not yet meet the criteria for Big Data, but the growth of archaeological cyber-infrastructures is providing the foundations for ‘big data’ research. Using digital repositories such as the ADS in the UK and tDAR in the USA, we have access to millions of records, from multiple resources. Data and text mining tools allow us to extract information from published and unpublished fieldwork reports, whilst the ability to create Linked Open Data or to integrate metadata via...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Malkia Okech.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeological Futures through a Virtual Past" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. African Digital Heritage (ADH) is a Nairobi-based nonprofit organization working to encourage a more critical, holistic, and knowledge-based approach to digital solutions within African heritage. Through this, we hope to cement the place of African culture in an era of rapidly changing technologies and endless frontiers. Our focus areas are...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jonathan Scholnick.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper examines the role of workshop organization in the emergence of shared stylistic conventions of Colonial-era Massachusetts gravestones. Deetz and Dethlefsen argued that changes in the stylistic motifs carved on New England gravestones show reflect changing attitudes towards death (1967), and that certain motifs diffuse through space and time...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Keith May.

This is an abstract from the "Constructing Chronologies I: Stratification and Correlation" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Records of archaeological stratigraphic data and the relationships between separately identified stratigraphic units are fundamental to understanding the overall cohesiveness of an archaeological excavation during fieldwork, analysis, publication, and in any resulting archive. Having divided the archaeology into various units...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Shawn Morton. Meaghan Peuramaki-Brown.

In a 2012 article exploring the spatial structure of post-Tlamimilolpa phase Teotihuacan, Mexico, we invoked both a materialist body of method-theory known as space syntax and an interactional theory of community development. Through this framework, we discussed community structure and systems of authority expressed by the architectural masses and spaces of the city. In this paper, the authors revisit this approach, with fresh eyes and in the context of our growing knowledge of ancient urbanism....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Adam Budziszewski. Alfonso Gastelum-Strozzi.

This is an abstract from the "Tzintzuntzan, Capital of the Tarascan Empire: New Perspectives" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Nine urns from the early Postclassic cemetery in Los Tamarindos (Tierra Caliente, Michoacán, Mexico) containing human cremains have been excavated with the support of a CT scan. Selected examples from this sample will be presented to demonstrate the analytical potential of the methodology that merges bioarchaeological...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Frim.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Quipus, the record-keeping tools of the Incan empire, offer insight into the mathematics of the Andes through the numerical records embedded in them. AS55 and AS56, a pair of quipus found in association with each other, feature complex mathematical relationships in the numbers recorded on them. These properties were first presented and analyzed in a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrea Jalandoni.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Rock art is under constant threat from natural and anthropogenic deterioration and one of the challenges for archaeologists is to document and study this invaluable heritage before it disappears. Digital archaeology, the use of information technology and digital media for archaeological research, is essential for recording, analyzing and envisioning rock...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kaitlyn Kingsland.

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. The digital turn in archaeology sees an increased interest in combining gaming and archaeology. Integrating serious games with archaeology demonstrates benefits for the public of all ages and background to learn about the past in the classroom, at cultural heritage institutions, and at home. This paper seeks to...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Christopher Nicholson. Jessica Irwin. Rachael Fernandez.

This is an abstract from the "Refining Archaeological Data Collection and Management to Achieve Greater Scientific, Traditional, and Educational Values" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological data collected by CRM firms and academics are rarely interoperable, making it difficult to reuse information. Though most archaeological datasets produced are the result of compliance work, they are rarely used outside of the specific project for...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Charlene Collazzi.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Every archaeological site holds the potential to contribute its own irreplaceable piece into the vast jigsaw puzzle that is our shared human past. Meticulous field and lab procedures ensure data and subsequent reports are accurate. But what happens after the project closes? For decades, it has been standard practice to file the report away into an...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Angelica Perez Diosdado. Fernanda Lucia Sandoval. José Luis Punzo.

This is an abstract from the "Landscapes: Archaeological, Historic, and Ethnographic Perspectives from the New World / Paisajes: Perspectivas arqueológicas, históricas y etnográficas desde el Nuevo Mundo" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The ancient prehispanic city of Tzintzuntzan was a cosmopolitan and highly stratified settlement that is distributed between two great hills, the Tariaqueri and the Yahuarato. Its ancient builders gained flat land...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katherine Cook. Meghan Burchell.

Higher education pedagogy and university administration are pushing technologies as a way of increasing engagement and contact with students, rolling out digital learning environments and handheld devices aplenty. This shift has been critiqued as a fad but can it be harnessed to address the longstanding goals of public anthropology and calls to decolonize the classroom? Embracing multivocality, diversity, inclusivity and collaboration is complex, and opportunities to teach in a way that moves...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katharine Ellenberger.

When teaching about preservation, it can be difficult to communicate the options and ethical dilemmas that inform principles of archaeological ethics. The message many members of the public get from brief exposure to digital records and virtual models often adds to the challenge, leaving them with impression that these are viable alternatives to physical site preservation. I propose employing evidence-based teaching practices to create public and university lessons which result in a properly...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Erin Ray. Nadia Neff.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As archaeologists, we can be slow to adopt new technology in the field. Sensitive documents such as field notes and maps are often still done by hand for fear of data loss. Working in remote field settings with limited or no electricity can amplify this concern. This case study examines the use of an iPad for recording field notes, creating maps, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Arianna Campiani. Rodrigo Liendo Stuardo. Nicola Lercari.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Temple of the Inscriptions—K’inich Janab Pakal’s funerary building—is an outstanding evidence of Palenque elite’s grandiose architectural programs in the 7th century AD. Are terrestrial LiDAR and drone-based 3-D mapping viable techniques to inform a new architectural analysis on the construction of this iconic temple? Can digital monitoring based on...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Adam Rabinowitz.

This is an abstract from the "Constructing Chronologies I: Stratification and Correlation" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper explores the potential of the PeriodO period gazetteer to facilitate temporal reasoning and visualization in archaeological datasets, both within and between stratigraphic databases that refer to PeriodO definitions for their period terms, and within and between datasets using only natural-language labels. The...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joshua J. Wells. David Anderson. Eric Kansa. Sarah Whitcher Kansa. Kelsey Noack Myers.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. On November 13, 2013, the Digital Index of North American Archaeology (DINAA) published its first set of completely free and open scientific and cultural data for about 86,000 archaeological sites. Ten years later, DINAA provides information for almost one million archaeological sites. This includes vast holdings of primary scientific and cultural data,...