Sponsored Symposium: Technology and the Modern Archaeologist: Technological Applications for Marine and Terrestrial Archaeology

For those of you attending the 45th Annual Meeting for the Society of Historical Archaeology in Baltimore on January 5th, 2012, consider checking out the following symposium:

Sponsored Symposium: Technology and the Modern Archaeologist: Technological Applications for Marine and Terrestrial Archaeology

Modern archaeologists are using GPR, AUVs, portable XRF and other “high technologies” borrowed from geology, chemistry, physics, biology, and soil science to better understand past human behaviors. This symposium’s intent is to review emerging technological topics including: digital archiving, 3d scanning, adaptation of handheld touch devices to fieldwork, web based applications, 3d artifact scanning, and more. It is the Technologies Committee’s goal to present as varied a program as possible based on the technologies archaeologists are currently using in the field, lab, and office. While few historical archaeologists have access to all of these state of the art technologies it is important that they be aware of new equipment and techniques that maybe applicable to their research and occupation.

 [SYM-182a] 9:00 am –  2 pm (Harborside - Essex A & B)

Sponsor: SHA Technology Committee, organized and chaired by: Jonathan R. Libbon, Richard J. Lundin

Richard John Lundin, Closing the Circle: The Evolution and Promise of Portable Archaeogeophysical and Archaeogeochemical Technologies (VLF-EM, pXRF, pXRD, pRAMAN and FLIR) for Archaeological Field Studies

Jean B. Pelletier, Anthony G. Randolph, Marine Remote Sensing and Dive Operations on an early 19th century Sailing Canal Boat in a Super Fund Site.

Robert A. Church, Robert F. Westrick, Daniel J. Warren, AUV Camera Capabilities for Deep-Water Archaeology

Peter Leach, Ben Ford, Through-Ice GPR on Lake Ontario: The Search for the Ice Gunboat

Benjamin P. Carter, Cheap, Durable and Affordable Digital Data Collection in the Field: Is There an 'App' for That?

Adam Brin, Francis P. McManamon, The Digital Archaeological Record: Providing Access to and Preservation of Archaeological Information

Clinton King, John Haynes, Bernard Means, Digitizing the Past in Three Dimensions: Virtual Curation of Historical Artifacts

Edward Gonzalez-Tennant, Dark Tourism, Social Justice Education, and Virtual Archaeology

Christopher Polglase, J.B. Pelletier, Integrating Terrestrial and Marine  Remote Sensing Techniques in a Near-shore Area

Peter Holt, Applying Technology to Site Data Management using Site 4465 Recorder 4 - Results from the Field

Elizabeth Davoli, “Seeing Through a Lakebed with a Sub-Bottom Profiler

Jackson Cothren, High Density Survey in Historic Archaeology: a Digital Ecosystem Approach

Geoffrey J. Avern, A Metrological Tracking System as a Powerful Multi-purpose Tool for Excavation Recording and Geophysical Survey.

Jonathan P. Smith, Artifacts In (Cyber)Space: Low-Cost 3D Scanning Techniques

Angela Jaillet, Beyond Big Words: A Methodological Approach to LiDAR in Historical Archaeology