Electronic symposium for the 75th Anniversary Meeting in St.Louis are listed below. This symposium has been posted for participants and the attendees to read the papers prior to the meeting.
No papers will be read during the session. All meeting time will be spent in in-depth discussion of the issues raised by the papers. Please click on the symposium link to view the papers.
The Canvas of Space: Method and Theory of Spatial Investigations in the 21st Century
Room: 224 (AC)
Time: 8:00 AM–10:00 AM
Organizers and Chairs: Kimberly Kasper and Margaret Morris
Margaret Morris—Are We the Tools of our Tools? Understanding Impacts of GIS Approaches on Archaeological Research
Angele Smith—Archaeological Landscapes: Exploring Scale, Movement and the Politics of Spatiality
Broughton Anderson—Scottish Space: A Multidisciplinary Approach
Eva Hulse—Jill of All Trades and Master of None?: The Challenges of Doing Soil Chemistry Analysis as an Archaeologist
Sarah Sportman—Daily Practice, Social Identity and the Organization of Domestic Space at Hammondville, NY, 1870-1900
Kimberly Kasper and Kevin McBride—The Spatial Significance of Plants
Elizabeth Lynch—Bedrocks Metates along the Chaquaqua Drainage: Building an Conceptual Framework for Prehistoric Landscape Knowledge
Meredith Hardy—It’s a Small World? Settlement and Interaction on St. Croix, Virgin Islands
Ezra Zubrow, Eva Hulse, Greg Korosec and Dustin Keeler—Supra-regional Issues in Archaeology
Brian Jones—An Exploratory Data Analysis Approach to Artifact Density Correlation
Ray Whitlow—Linking Spatial Theories and Archaeological Data with the help of Formal Ontology
Practical Methods of Data Production, Dissemination, and Preservation
Room: 227 (AC)
Time: 10:45 AM–12:45 PM
Organizers and Chairs: Eric Kansa and Joshua Wells
We welcome all interested SAA members (DDIG members and all others) to read these papers and participate in discussion at the SAA Digital Data Interest Group (DDIG) blog "http://www.alexandriaarchive.org/blog/?cat=86" Digging Digitally (http://www.alexandriaarchive.org/blog/?cat=86). Please plan to join us for live discussion of these topics and other digital data interests at the meeting.
Sara Ayers-Rigsby—Issues of Access-Does Publicly Available GIS Information Help or Hinder the Archaeological Record?
Caroline Beebe—Digital Chau Hiix: Principles, Problems and Simple Cost Effective Solutions
Michael Cannon, David Reinhart, Tanya Johnson, Heather Stettler, Sarah Creer and Deborah Jensen—The Milford Wind Corridor Project: Adventures in Digital
Data Recovery Reporting
Lori Jahnke—Changing Scholarly Communication: the Implications of Granting Copyright for Born Digital Objects
Erik Johanson, David Anderson, Shane Miller, Stephen Yerka, Derek Anderson and Christopher Gillam—PIDBA: Challenges Related to the Curation and
Dissemination of Paleoindian Data at a Hemispheric Scale
Eric Kansa and Joshua Wells—"Quantity has a Quality all its Own": Archaeological Practice and the Role of Aggregation in Data Sharing
Christopher Parr—Keeping Things Simple: Archaeology, the Army, and "Lil'Benny2.0"
Julian Richards—Digging into Data: Text Mining of Archaeological Grey Literature
Dean Snow—Making the Most of Cyberinfrastructure
Glenn Strickland—The Integration and Interpretation of Archaeological Data through Three Dimensional Multi-component Digital Spatial Modeling
Judith van der Elst and Heather Richards-Rissetto—Rethinking Digital Data Collection and Dissemination from a User Perspective
Willeke Wendrich—W.M. Keck Program in Digital Cultural Mapping at UCLA
Stephen Yerka, Nicholas P. Herrmann and Mathew D. Gage—Curing the Data: Managing Information Systems and Digital Data at Tennessee's ARL
LOOKING BACK, LOOKING FORWARD: SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS OF ARCHAEOLOGY IN PACIFIC CENTRAL AMERICA
Room: 231 (AC)
Time: 9:00 AM–11:00 AM
Organizer: Geoffrey McCafferty
Chair: Ana Aguilar
Ibarra SAA 2010
Paritipants and Titles:
Alex Geurds—Regionality and Monumental Sculpture in Pacific and Central Nicaragua
Ana Aguilar and Elisa Fernández León—Questioning the Historical Sources from a Linguistic and Archaeological Perspective in Lower Central America
Larry Steinbrenner—The Pacific Nicaragua Potting Tradition, AD 800-1350
Fred Lange—Looking Back, Looking Forward: Forty-Five Years of Archaeology in Greater Nicoya
Felipe Solis and Anayensy Herrera—Mesoamericans at the Jicaro Site, Bay of Culebra, NW, Costa Rica
Eugenia Ibarra—An Ethnohistorical Interpretation of the Mesoamerican Impact on the Rio San Juan and Western Central Valley of Costa Rica Surroundings in the 16th Century
Patricia Fernandez—Costa Rica Metallurgy: Local Productions and Social Networks Established with CR, Panamá and Nicaragua
Geoffrey McCafferty and Carrie Dennett—Evaluating the ‘Out of Mexico’ Migration Theory: New Light on the Bagaces/Sapoa Transition in Pacific Nicaragua
Karen Bruhns and Paul Amaroli Bertolucci—A Council House of the Acropolis at Cihuatan, El Salvador