Kiva Collaboration – The Toriette Lakes Great Kiva Project: Excavation, Oral History, Augmented Reality and Other Things We Should All Be Doing

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The Toriette Lakes Great Kiva near Reserve, New Mexico was the subject of a 2018 field project under the auspices of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. This high altitude, threatened site appeared to be a shallow, disturbed, somewhat isolated, square great kiva of unknown date. Survey, excavation, and remote sensing have refined this interpretation. This poster provides an overview of summer fieldwork, contextualizes the kiva within its surrounding landscape, reports on collaboration with Zuni cultural leaders, and makes a preliminary appraisal of its architectural features. Data are presented with augmented reality – multimedia effects (audio, video, graphics) that are keyed by viewers’ devices; this makes for a ‘smart’ poster that has minimal text, ever changing content, conveys data through multiple sensory modalities (which can be ADA accessible), and offers a snazzy alternative experience to a typical academic poster.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 23348