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Web Mapping and Active Learning With LIDAR Data - Ep 127

The phrase, “archaeologists aren’t taught to do that” is prevalent in archaeology. What are archaeologist’s taught? Well, this paper attempts to use alternative methods and crowdsourcing to analyze LIDAR data and overcome some of the shortfalls of academic education.

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Modeling Concentrations of Maritime Activity In The Past with Dr. Matthew Harpster - Ep 126

Today we talk to Dr. Matthew Harpster about his recent collaborative paper in the Journal of Archaeological Science about modeling concentrations of maritime activity in the past using the submerged archaeological record.

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With a goal of understanding and visualizing the shifting concentrations of movement across the Mediterranean Sea on a centennial basis, the MISAMS (Modeling Inhabited Spaces of the Ancient Mediterranean Sea) Project developed a new GIS-based interpretive methodology that collates and superimposes a series of polygons to model densities of maritime activity in the Mediterranean Sea from the 7th century BC to the 7th century AD. After discussing the project's use of place, space, and maritime landscapes as a theoretical background, this paper explains this new methodology then demonstrates and tests results representing activity in the 1st-century BC western-Mediterranean basin. These results, apparently manifesting distinct socially-constructed places, suggest that this new approach creates new opportunities to understand the movement of people and goods across the Mediterranean in the past, and the varying uses and perceptions of maritime space in antiquity. As this method requires a dense and well-studied corpora of archaeological data, it is theoretically applicable to other maritime regions that have (or will have) the appropriate dataset, and may represent a new research agenda in maritime archaeology.

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Site Assessments After a Significant Weather Event with Dr. Tanya Peres - Ep 125

Way back on episode 93 Paul and Chris talked about the article linked below but couldn’t work out a schedule with the authors. Well, now we have Dr. Tanya Peres on to talk about that article and the challenges and successes experienced when assessing sites after a major rain storm in Tennessee.

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Working Remotely During The Zombie Apocalypse - Ep 124

From video conferencing tools to the immediate and lasting effects on field archaeology, Paul and Chris talk about working during this unique time in history.

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GPR and Geophysics with Dr. Dan Bigman - Ep 123

Dr. Dan Bigman from Bigman Geophysical joins the show once again to talk about GPR and other methods in a CRM context. Of course this works for any project, but, we focused on contract archaeology for some portions of this episode.

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