![[Foundational Skills] Story Maps for Public Archaeology](/images/default-source/opengraph/onlineseminars/computer.tmb-seminar.jpg?Culture=en&sfvrsn=d29976d9_1)
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[Foundational Skills] Story Maps for Public Archaeology
When: September 06, 2022 1:00-2:00 PM ET
Duration: 1 hour
Certification: RPA-certified
Pricing
Individual Registration: Free to SAA members; $69 for non-members
Group Registration: Free to SAA members; $89 for non-members
Tonya Fallis, MA, RPA, GISP, City of McKinney, TX
Tonya Fallis received her MA in Archaeology from Eastern New Mexico University in 2002. She specializes in geospatial and database applications in archaeology and created her first GIS-based predictive model back in the 90s, when 30-meter Landsat data was still considered pretty cool. She was an archaeologist and GIS Specialist at New Mexico's Archaeological Records Management Section for twelve years. In the private sector, she worked with GIS in natural and cultural resource conservation, including the design of an archaeological site management system for the City of Santa Fe. She currently works as a Senior GIS Analyst for the City of McKinney, Texas, where she uses GIS to support public history and heritage education.
Tonya Fallis received her MA in Archaeology from Eastern New Mexico University in 2002. She specializes in geospatial and database applications in archaeology and created her first GIS-based predictive model back in the 90s, when 30-meter Landsat data was still considered pretty cool. She was an archaeologist and GIS Specialist at New Mexico's Archaeological Records Management Section for twelve years. In the private sector, she worked with GIS in natural and cultural resource conservation, including the design of an archaeological site management system for the City of Santa Fe. She currently works as a Senior GIS Analyst for the City of McKinney, Texas, where she uses GIS to support public history and heritage education.
Story Maps are an excellent resource for engaging the public with archaeology and heritage education. They can be used to communicate the results of archaeological research, and provide a medium for telling the stories of underserved populations. Story Maps can also be used at low cost for non-profit or educational purposes, allowing organizations with scarce resources to create their own stories on an easily-accessible platform.
1. Describe Story Map designs and how they use geospatial data, text, and multimedia to achieve different goals.
2. Review the options available for Story Maps based on free, low-cost, and full-priced Esri accounts.
3. Outline best practices behind production, design and maintenance of a Story Map, including issues of special interest to archaeologists.
2. Review the options available for Story Maps based on free, low-cost, and full-priced Esri accounts.
3. Outline best practices behind production, design and maintenance of a Story Map, including issues of special interest to archaeologists.
![[SALSA] Social Inequality: Perspectives from Peru's late Early Horizon (400-200 BCE) and Present Day Archaeological Practice](/ResourcePackages/SAA/assets/images/default-online-seminar.png)
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[SALSA] Social Inequality: Perspectives from Peru's late Early Horizon (400-200 BCE) and Present Day Archaeological Practice
When: August 17, 2022 5:00-6:00 PM ET
Duration: 1 hour
Certification: None
Pricing
Individual Registration: Free to SAA members; not available to non-members
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Jordi Rivera Prince
In this talk, Jordi Rivera Prince will tie social inequality through the past and the present addressing her own bioarchaeological research in the North Coast of the Central Andes, and her experience today in academia and a Mexican-American woman of color from a working-class background. Her bioarchaeological study centers on a small-scale fishing community at the La Iglesia site (ca. 400-200 BCE), located in modern-day Huanchaco, Peru. From personal experience, the talk will relate how minoritized individuals may receive unequal access to goods, information, and power in the discipline. It will address how her experience thus far necessarily guides her research and practice as an archaeologist studying social inequality.
The Student Affairs Lecture Series in Archaeology (SALSA) provides an opportunity to hear student members present on their current research as well as a space to discuss and connect with other students.
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[SALSA] Distilling Southern Histories: Archaeological Investigations of Moonshine, Memory, and Identity in the South Carolina Lowcountry
When: July 13, 2022 5:00-6:00 PM ET
Duration: 1 hour
Certification: None
Pricing
Individual Registration: Free to SAA members; not available to non-members
Group Registration:
Katherine Parker
Moonshine has long captured public and academic interest, though our conception of those involved in its production remains mired in stereotypes. Archaeological efforts to study moonshine have likewise been limited due to the ephemeral and seemingly “modern” nature of site deposits, as well as the belief that moonshine still sites retain little archaeological data. Recent fieldwork undertaken for Katherine Parker's dissertation and in collaboration with community stakeholders has challenged these assumptions at the site level and within the broader landscapes that were organized and altered to facilitate large-scale clandestine distilling operations. By taking a wider view of moonshining, distinct site patterns influenced by differences in regional histories, histories of practice, resource availability, environmental affordances, and spatial networks become more apparent. This lecture will explore the archaeology and history of moonshine in the South Carolina Lowcountry, one of the largest production centers for moonshine during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, via the Villeponteaux family, former plantation owners who turned to moonshining after the Civil War. Parker will illustrate how the political economy of privilege from the Antebellum era was leveraged to limit interference with their operations and create a more favorable social, economic, and material landscape in which to make moonshine.
The Student Affairs Lecture Series in Archaeology (SALSA) provides an opportunity to hear student members present on their current research as well as a space to discuss and connect with other students.
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An Introduction to Interpretive Archaeological Illustration
When: May 11, 2022 2:00-3:00 PM ET
Duration: 1 hour
Certification: RPA-certified
Pricing
Individual Registration: Free to SAA members; $69 for non-members
Group Registration: Free to SAA members; $89 for non-members
Mary Brown, MA, RPA, TRC and Office of Contract Archaeology
Mary Brown is an artist and archaeologist living in Placitas, New Mexico. She has been a professional artist for over 20 years. Her work hangs in public spaces and the homes of collectors and families across the United States. Mary believes in the power of art to inspire thoughtful curiosity and nurture mindfulness. Mary is also a Registered Professional Archaeologist with an M.A. in Anthropology, and combines her two passions, art and archaeology, to produce interpretive archaeological illustrations. Her illustrations transcend the gap between human and artifact by visually interpreting the context and data of archaeological discovery in a way that is meaningful and relatable. Mary believes pairing art and archaeology provides a powerful tool for public education. Visually representing past lives allows the viewer to understand artifacts and sites not just in terms of data, but also in terms of the human experience, which she believes collectively holds far more similarity than difference.
Mary Brown is an artist and archaeologist living in Placitas, New Mexico. She has been a professional artist for over 20 years. Her work hangs in public spaces and the homes of collectors and families across the United States. Mary believes in the power of art to inspire thoughtful curiosity and nurture mindfulness. Mary is also a Registered Professional Archaeologist with an M.A. in Anthropology, and combines her two passions, art and archaeology, to produce interpretive archaeological illustrations. Her illustrations transcend the gap between human and artifact by visually interpreting the context and data of archaeological discovery in a way that is meaningful and relatable. Mary believes pairing art and archaeology provides a powerful tool for public education. Visually representing past lives allows the viewer to understand artifacts and sites not just in terms of data, but also in terms of the human experience, which she believes collectively holds far more similarity than difference.
Illustration and archaeology share a long history. Illustrations often provided the only visual documentation of artifacts, landscapes, and sites. Though technological advances in photography have largely supplanted traditional illustration, the practice of visually interpreting data beyond statistical graphs is still critically important. This seminar introduces the art of interpretive archaeological illustration and discusses its value to archaeology, as well as information on processes, techniques, and getting started. Information included in the seminar is helpful for those with artistic interests who wish to incorporate them into their archaeology career, and anyone exploring new methods of public outreach.
1. Define interpretive archaeological illustration
2. Identify the benefits of visually interpreting data
3. Describe basic processes and techniques used to visually interpret data
4. Outline how to start incorporating interpretive archaeological illustration into the workplace and careers
2. Identify the benefits of visually interpreting data
3. Describe basic processes and techniques used to visually interpret data
4. Outline how to start incorporating interpretive archaeological illustration into the workplace and careers
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How Much is it Worth?: Explaining Archaeological Value under the Archaeological Resources Protection Act
When: April 28, 2022 2:00-4:00 PM ET
Duration: 2 hours
Certification: RPA-certified
Pricing
Individual Registration: $99 for SAA members; $149 for non-members
Group Registration: $139 for SAA members; $189 for non-members
Christopher Dore, PhD, RPA, Heritage Business International
Dr. Dore has conducted archaeological expert witness work for over 20 years as a part of his work portfolio. He is a Certified Forensic Litigation Consultant, a professional member of the Forensic Expert Witness Association (FEWA), and the vice-president of FEWA’s southwest region. Dr. Dore is a co-author of the SAA’s Professional Standards for the Determination of Archaeological Value and has published in legal journals. He has served as an expert witness on high-profile cases nationally that have included criminal looting and artifact trafficking, but also fraud, insurance claims, hazardous waste liability, professional qualifications and performance, and plagiarism.
Dr. Dore has conducted archaeological expert witness work for over 20 years as a part of his work portfolio. He is a Certified Forensic Litigation Consultant, a professional member of the Forensic Expert Witness Association (FEWA), and the vice-president of FEWA’s southwest region. Dr. Dore is a co-author of the SAA’s Professional Standards for the Determination of Archaeological Value and has published in legal journals. He has served as an expert witness on high-profile cases nationally that have included criminal looting and artifact trafficking, but also fraud, insurance claims, hazardous waste liability, professional qualifications and performance, and plagiarism.
Unfortunately, archaeological resources continue to be damaged and looted. Archaeologists are on the front line in documenting damage to sites and in calculating the value of this damage according to the methodology defined in the Archaeological Resources Protection Act (ARPA). Archaeologists may end up defending their damage assessments and valuations in the legal system as a fact or expert witness through reports, depositions, and testimony. This presentation will outline the law, regulations, standards, and steps required in valuing damage to archaeological sites and, most importantly, discuss how to avoid the common, critical mistakes that are made by archaeologists. These mistakes lead to stressful cross-examination of the archaeologist, acquittal of the accused, and reductions in sentences for those convicted of archaeological crimes.
1. Describe the process to calculate archaeological value under ARPA.
2. Prepare for the legal process following the submittal of an archaeological damage assessment and valuation.
3. Explain the basic qualifications and role of scientific expert witnesses in the U.S. legal system.
4. Review some of the problems commonly found in archaeological damage and valuation reports.
2. Prepare for the legal process following the submittal of an archaeological damage assessment and valuation.
3. Explain the basic qualifications and role of scientific expert witnesses in the U.S. legal system.
4. Review some of the problems commonly found in archaeological damage and valuation reports.