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Since 2013, the Spatial Archaeometry Research Collaborations (SPARC) Program has promoted the development of new geospatial methods and applications in archaeology and the visibility of these innovations to the broader archaeological community. In addition, SPARC supports good practice in the archiving and publication of digital geospatial data.

Outlined below are the research outcomes associated with SPARC-supported projects, which include publications, professional presentations and organized symposia, and grants stemming from successful SPARC results. Also included are the Final Reports of SPARC-supported projects, which provide a summary of the work undertaken in collaboration with SPARC and a summary of corresponding results. Links to SPARC-related websites and archived SPARC project data, available on free, open-source data repository Zenodo (hosted at CERN), are also included below.

BOLD indicates SPARC staff authorship, demonstrating in part the collaborative nature of the SPARC Program.



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Publications (* indicates peer-reviewed)

2022

McLeester, M. and Casana, J. (2022). Finding Fields: Locating Archaeological Agricultural Landscapes Using Historical Aerial Photographs. American Antiquity 86(2):, 283–304. https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2020.102

McCoy, M., Casana, J., Hill, A., Laugier, E., and Ladefoged, T. (2022). Mapping Ancient Architecture via Unpiloted Aerial Vehicle-Acquired Lidar: A Case Study of Holualoa Royal Centre, Kona district, Hawai’i Island. Journal of the Polynesian Society 131(1): 71–92. https://doi.org/10.3316/informit.534760607546658

Erb-Satullo, N. and Jachvliani, D. (2022). Fortified Communities in the South Caucasus: Insights from Mtsvane Gora and Dmanisis Gora. Journal of Field Archaeology 47(5): 305–323. https://doi.org/10.1080/00934690.2022.2074647

2021

Casana, J., Laugier, E., Hill, A., Reese, K., Ferwerda, C., McCoy, M., and Ladefoged, T. (2021). Exploring Archaeological Landscapes Using Drone-Acquired Lidar: Case Studies from Hawai’i, Colorado, and New Hampshire, USA. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 39: 103133. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2021.103133

Klehm, C., Casana, J., Cothren, J., Green, V., Hill, A.C., Kasten, M., Limp, W.F., Payne, A., and Williamson, M. (2021). Spatial Archaeology in the Time of COVID-19: Recent research from CAST and the SPARC Program. The SAA Archaeological Record 21(1):26-34.

*McCoy, M., Casana, J., Hill, A., Laugier, E. Mulrooney, M., and Ladefoged, T. (2021). Unpiloted Aerial Vehicle Acquired Lidar for Mapping Monumental Architecture: A Case Study from the Hawaiian Islands. Advances in Archaeological Practice 9(2): 160-174. https://doi.org/10.1017/aap.2021.5

2020

*Casana, J., Laugier, E., Hill, A. C., and Blakeslee, D. (2020). A Council Circle at Etzanoa? Multi-Sensor Drone Survey at an Ancestral Wichita Settlement in Southeastern Kansas. American Antiquity 85(4):761–780.

Cherry, J., and Ryzewski, C., eds. (2020). An Archaeological History of Montserrat and the West Indies. Havertown, PA: Oxbow Books.

*Hill, A. C., Laugier, E., and Casana, J. (2020). Archaeological Remote Sensing Using Multi-Temporal, Drone-Acquired Thermal and Near Infrared (NIR) Imagery: A Case Study at the Enfield Shaker Village, New Hampshire. Remote Sensing 12:690, https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12040690.

Sivitskis, A.J., J.W. Lehner, M.J. Harrower, I.A. Dumitru, P.E. Paulsen, S. Nathan, D.R. Viete, S. Al-*Jabri, B. Helwing, F. Wiig, D. Moraetis, and B. Pracejus. (2019). Detecting and Mapping Slag Heaps at Ancient Copper Production Sites in Oman. Remote Sensing 11:3014, https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11243014

*Wernke, Steven, VanValkenburgh, Parker, and Akira Saito. (2020). Interregional Archaeology in the Age of Big Data: Building Online Collaborative Platforms for Virtual Survey in the Andes, Journal of Field Archaeology 45:sup1, S61-S74, DOI: 10.1080/00934690.2020.1713286.

Van Oyen, A., G. W. Tol, and Vennarucci, R. G. (2020). The missing link: a nucleated rural centre at Podere Marzuolo (Cinigiano, GR). In A. Sebastiani and C. Megale (eds), Mediterraneo Toscano e che gli atti del I Convegno Internazionale tenutosi a Civitella Paganico il 29 e 30 Giugno 2018.Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols.

2019

*Van Oyen, A., R. G. Vennarucci, A. L. Fischetti and Tol, G. W. (2019). “Un centro artigianale di epoca romana: terzo anno di scavo a Podere Marzuolo (Cinigiano, GR). Bollettino di Archeologica Online.

*Hill, A., Limp, F.,Casana, J., Laugier, E., and Williamson, M. (2019). A new era in spatial data recording: Low-cost GNSS. Advances in Archaeological Practice, 7, 169-177. https://doi.org/10.1017/aap.2018.50

*Carter, N., Santini, L., Barnes, A., Opitz, R., White, D., Safi, K., Davenport, B., Brown, C., and Witschey, W. (2019). Country Roads: Travel, visibility, and Late Classic Maya settlement in the southern Maya mountains. Journal of Field Archaeology, 44, 84-108. https://doi.org/10.1080/00934690.2019.1571373

*Klehm, C., Barnes, A., Follett, F., Simon, K., Kiahtipes, C., and Mothulatshipi, S. (2019). Toward archaeological predictive modeling in the Bosutswe region of Botswana: Utilizing multispectral satellite imagery to conceptualize ancient landscapes. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 54, 68-83. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2019.02.002

*Erb-Satullo, N., Jachvliani, D., Kalayci, T., Puturidze, M. and Simon, K. (2019). Investigating the spatial organisation of Bronze and Iron Age fortress complexes in the South Caucasus. Antiquity, 93(368), 412-431. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2018.191

2018

*Opitz, R., & Herrmann, J. (2018). Recent trends and long-standing problems in archaeological remote sensing. Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology, 1(1), 19-41. http://doi.org/10.5334/jcaa.11

*Wiig, F., Harrower, M., Braun, A., Nathan, S., Lehner, J., Simon, K., Sturm, J., Trinder, J., Dumitru, I., Hensley, S., and Clark, T. (2018). Mapping a subsurface water channel with X-Band and C-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar at the Iron Age archaeological site of ‘Uqdat al-Bakrah (Safah), Oman. Geosciences, 8, 334. https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences8090334

*Dungan, K., White, D., Déderix, S., Mills, B., and Safi, K. (2018). A total viewshed approach to local visibility in the Chaco world. Antiquity, 92, 905-921. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2018.135

*McLeester, M., Casana, J., Schurr, M., Hill, A., and Wheeler, J. III. (2018). Detecting prehistoric landscape features using thermal, multispectral, and historical imagery analysis at Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie, Illinois. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 21, 450-459. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2018.08.016

*Worsham, R., Lindblom, M., and Zikidi, C. (2018). Preliminary report of the Malthi Archaeological Project, 2015-2016. Opuscula: Journal of the Swedish Institute at Athens, 11, 7-28. https://doi.org/10.30549/opathrom-11-02

Dungan, K., White, D., and Déderix, S. 2018. Visibility and Chacoan architecture. Archaeology Southwest Magazine, 32(2-3), 33–34.

Vennarucci, R. G., A. Van Oyen, and Tol, G. W. (2018). Una Comunità Artigianale nella Toscana Rurale: il sito di Marzuolo. In A. Pizzo and V. Nizzo (eds), Antico e Non Antico: Scritti Multidisciplinari Offerti a Giusepe Pucci (pp. 589-598). Milan: Mimesis Edizioni.

Thum, J. (2018). In Between and Beyond: Working in the borderlands of ARCE and the Egyptian empire. Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology & Heritage Studies, 6 (3), 230-246. http://doi.org/10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.6.3.0230

2017

*Dolan, P., Grier, C., Markussen, C., and Simon, K. (2017). Magnetic gradient survey of the Marpole Period Dionisio Point (DgRv-003) Plankhouse Village, Northwest coast of North America. Journal of Field Archaeology, 42(5), 437-449. https://doi.org/10.1080/00934690.2017.1368841

*Limp, W., and Williamson, M. (2017). Strategies for International Travel with ‘High-Tech’ Archaeological Field Equipment. Advances in Archaeological Practice, 5(4), 382-87.

*Monroe, J.C. (2017). New light from Haiti's royal past: Recent archaeological excavations in the Palace of Sans-Souci, Milot. Journal of Haitian Studies, 23, 5-31. http://doi.org/10.1353/jhs.2017.0015

2016

Limp, W. (2016). Measuring the face of the past and facing the measurement, in M. Forte and S. Campana (eds.) Digital methods and remote sensing in archaeology. Quantitative Methods in Humanities and Social Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40658-9_16

Brown, S., Porter, B., Simon, K., Markussen, C. & Wilson, A. (2016). Newly documented domestic architecture at Iron Age Busayra (Jordan): Preliminary results from a geophysical survey. Antiquity Project Gallery, 90(350). http://antiquity.ac.uk/projgall/brown350

2015

*Limp, W. , and Payne, A. (2015). “Imagining the Medieval Mississippian Town.” In T. Pauketat and S. Ault (eds), Medieval Mississippians (pp. 87-92). Santa Fe: SAR Press.

*Opitz, R., Ryzewski, K., Cherry, J. and Moloney, B. (2015). Using airborne LiDAR survey to explore historic-era archaeological landscapes of Montserrat in the eastern Caribbean. Journal of Field Archaeology, 40, 523-541. https://doi.org/10.1179/2042458215Y.0000000016

*Optiz, R. and Limp, W. (2015). Recent developments in high-density survey and measurement (HDSM) for archaeology: Implications for practice and theory. Annual Reviews in Anthropology, 44, 347-64. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-102214-013845

2014

*Herrmann, J. (2014). Special issue on digital domains: introduction. Advances in Archaeological Practice, 2(3), 145-146. https://doi.org/10.7183/2326-3768.2.3.145

Casana, J. (2014). New approaches to spatial archaeometry: Applications from the Near East. Near Eastern Archaeology, 77(3), 171-175. https://doi.org/10.5615/neareastarch.77.3.0171



Field Reports

2022. Lipe, W., Simon, K., Menio, E., Till, J., Hurst, W., Matson, R., Wintch, J., and Severance, O. (2022). "SPARC Project Report: Mapping Chacoan Roads in SE Utah Woodlands." Washington State University. Available: https://rex.libraries.wsu.edu/esploro/outputs/report/99900861640401842.

2018. “Archaeological Water Histories of Oman (ArWHO) Project.” 2018 Field Report, Sept 7, 2018 (51 pages plus appendices).

2018. “Marzuolo 2018 Season Summary.” Fasti Online.



Conference Presentations

2022

J. Cameron Monroe (2022). Building Sovereignty in the Kingdom of Hayti: An archaeological perspective on architecture and material culture at the Palace of Sans Souci. Hanberry Lecture in Historic Preservation. University of Virginia.

April Kamp-Whittaker (2022). Digital Archaeology through StoryMaps. 87th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology Conference. Chicago, IL.

Dylan Davis, Hank Theiss, Jackson Cothren, Carla Klehm and Kristina Douglass (2022). Elucidating the Pastoralist Niche on SW Madagascar Using Automated Remote Sensing. 87th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology Conference. Chicago, IL.

BrieAnna Langlie, John Wilson, Carlos Osores Mendives and Jacob Frank (2022). Locating Agricultural Terraces in the Southern Peruvian Andes. 87th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology Conference. Chicago, IL. Status = PUBLISHED; Acknowledgement of Federal Support = Yes

Carla Klehm (2022). Recentering the hinterland at Bosutswe, Botswana. Bienniel Meeting of The Association of Southern African Professional Archaeologists. Virtual.

V. Camille Westmont, Carla Klehm, and Malcolm Williamson (2022). The Power in the Landscape: Using Remote Sensing to Identify Features of Control within the Lone Rock Convict Stockade Landscape. 87th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology Conference. Chicago, IL.

2021

Carla Klehm, Chris Kiahtipes, and Sarah Mothulatshipi (2021). Bosutswe Landscapes: Social and economic transformation along the edge of the Kalahari, ca. 500-1700 CE. Biennial Meeting of the Society for Africanist Archaeology. Oxford, UK.

2020

(Postponed) Klehm, C., Kiahtipes, C., and Mothulatshipi, S. “Bosutswe Landscapes: Social and Economic Transformation Along the Edge of the Kalahari, ca. 500-1700 CE.” Biennial Meeting of the Society for Africanist Archaeology. Oxford, UK. Postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 Pandemic.

(Postponed) Vennarucci, R. G., G. W. Tol, and A. Van Oyen, “Investigating Cross-Craft Interaction at Podere Marzuolo (Tuscany, Italy).” 30th Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference, Split, Croatia. Postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 Pandemic.

2019

Harrower, M.J., Lehner, J., Nathan, S., Dumitru, I., Wiig, F., Simon, K., Viete, D., Livi, K., Renaux, L., and Tritsch, M. 2019. Metallurgy in the Desert: New Investigations at the Iron Age site of ‘Uqdat al-Bakrah (Safah), Oman. Paper Presentation at the 53 rd Seminar for Arabian Studies, Leiden, The Netherlands, July 11-13, 2019.

Simon, K ., and Angel, C. 2019. “Machine Learning for Ground-Penetrating Radar.” Poster Presentation at the 47th Annual Conference of the Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology, Krakow, Poland, April 25, 2019.

Wernke, S. 2019. “Seeing like a neural network? Possibilities and predicaments of large scale virtual archaeological prospection,” Paper presentation at the 84th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 11, 2019.

Erb-Satullo, N. L. 2019. “Integrating multiple survey techniques to explore the organization of Bronze and Iron Age fortresses.” Paper presentation at the workshop Across Mountains and Plains: Landscape Archaeology in the South Caucasus. Durham University, UK.

2018

Carter, N. P., Carter, D., Carter, N., Opitz, R., and Barnes, A. 2018. “Cash Crops and Snake Kings: Integrating Archaeology, Epigraphy, and Network Analysis in the Southern Maya Mountains.” The Connected Past, University of Oxford, Oxford, December 7, 2018.

Green, W., De Vore, S., Wiewel, A., and Flores, A. 2018. “Geophysical Survey and Remote Sensing at Gast Farm, Southeast Iowa: Hidden Mounds and Middle and Late Woodland Community Plans.” Poster presentation at the 83rd annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Washington, DC.

Van Oyen, A., G. Tol, and R. G. Vennarucci, 2018. “Planning and Investment in a Peasant Landscape: the site of Podere Marzuolo (Tuscany, Italy).” 19th International Congress of Classical Archaeology (AIAC), Cologne/Bonn, Germany, 22-26 May.

Van Oyen, A., R. G. Vennarucci, and G. Tol., 2018. “Podere Marzuolo (Cinigiano, GR): Nuovi Dati (2016-7).” Mediterraneo Toscana: Paesaggi dell’Etruria Romana, Paganico, Italy, 29-30 June.

Van Oyen, A., R. G. Vennarucci, and G. Tol. 2018. “Un centro artigianale di epoca romana a Podere Marzuolo (Cinigiano): nuovi dati.” Notizie dei Cavi degli Scavi Archeologia SABAP-SI 2018, Siena, Italy, 14-15 July.

Vennarucci, R. G., A. Van Oyen, G. W. Tol., 2018. “Multi-crafting Community in the Roman Countryside: Results of the Marzuolo Archaeological Project, 2017.” 119th annual meeting of the AIA, January 2018, Boston, MA., 4-7 January.

Wernke, S., VanValkenburgh, P., and Saito, A. 2018. “LOGAR y GeoPACHA: herramientas digitales para perspectivas inter-regionales sobre Tawantinsuyu y el Virreinato del Perú.” Paper presentation at the international symposium Un imperio, múltiples espacios: análisis espaciales en arqueología Inca, hosted by the Ministry of Culture, Peru, Lima, August 1-2, 2018.

Simon, K ., Monroe, J.C., Markussen, C. and Sexton, C. “Illuminating Haiti’s Royal Past: Advancing Analytics through 3D Data Fusion of Terrestrial Surface Models and Subsurface Geophysical Data.” Presented at Presented at the 83rd Annual Society for American Archaeology Meeting, Washington, D.C., April 14, 2018.

Follett, F ., Barnes, A., Simon, K. and Klehm, C. “Toward an Automated Model for Archaeological Site Detection in Eastern Botswana, a Clustering Method.” Presented at Presented at the 83rd Annual Society for American Archaeology Meeting, Washington, D.C., April 14, 2018.

Klehm, C., Barnes, A., Follett, F. and Simon, K. 2018. “From Geophysics to Building a Predictive GIS Model of Archaeological Sites in the African Interior: Spatial Archaeometric Applications of the Bosutswe Landscapes Regional Survey, Botswana.” Presented at Presented at the 83rd Annual Society for American Archaeology Meeting, Washington, D.C., April 13, 2018.

Simon, K., Angel, C., Markussen, C., and Monroe, J.C. 2018. “3D Data Fusion and Machine Learning: Advancing Analytics and Archaeological Interpretation in Haiti’s Royal Past.” Presented at the 46th Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology Conference, Tubingen, Germany. March 22, 2018.

Wernke, S., VanValkenburgh, P., and Saito, A. 2018. “LOGAR y GeoPACHA: logros y posibilidades de humanidades digitales para el estudio de la Reducción General de Indios.” Paper presentation in the symposium Nuevas miradas sobre las reducciones toledanas: hacia un diálogo interregional y multidiscilinario, at the International Congress of Americanists, Salamanca Spain.

Wernke, S., VanValkenburgh, P., and Saito, A. 2018. “LOGAR and GeoPACHA: Progress and Prospects of Collaborative Digital Humanities Tools for the Study of the Reducción General.” Paper presentation at the international symposium Unsettling Resettlement: Forced Concentration of the Native Population in the Colonial Andes, Vanderbilt University.

2017

Green, W., De Vore, S., and Wiewel, A. 2017. “Geophysical Survey and Remote Sensing at Gast Farm, Southeast Iowa: Hidden Mounds and Middle and Late Woodland Community Plans.” Paper presentation at the 61st annual Midwest Archaeological Conference, Indianapolis, IN.

Dungan, K., Déderix, S., Mills, B., Safi, K., and White, D. 2017. “Local Visibility and Monumentality in the Chaco World: A Total Viewshed Approach.” Presented at the 82nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, BC, as part of the session “Recent Analytical Contributions to Chacoan Archaeology.”

Van Oyen, A., R. G. Vennarucci, and G. Tol., 2017. “Investing to Innovate: Results of the Marzuolo Archaeological Project, 2016.” 118th annual meeting of the AIA, Toronto, CA., 5-8 January.

2016

Green, W., Whelan, M., Barnes, A., Whittaker, W., and Bristow, E. 2016. “Gast Farm Revisited: New Tools Revitalize “Old” Data.” Poster presentation at the 60th annual Midwest Archaeological Conference, Iowa City, IA.

2014

Soroush, M. 2014. “Evolution of the Sasanian Monumental Canal Projects: the Case of Gargar Canal.” Presented at the American School of Oriental Research Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA.



Organized Symposium

2018

Klehm, C. Spatial Approaches in African Archaeology: Current Theories, New Methods. Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, April 13. Washington, DC. With Cameron Gokee.

Simon, K. 2018. “Is Digital Always Better?” 83rd Annual Society for American Archaeology Meeting, Washington D.C. April 14, 2018.

2017

Simon, K. 2017. “Women in CAA.” 47th Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA) Conference. Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A. March 15, 2017.



Invited Presentations

2019

Wernke, S., VanValkenburgh, P., and Saito, A. 2019. “LOGAR and GeoPACHA: Digital Tools for Generating Regional Perspectives on the Andean Past.” Invited presentation for Seminar Digital Human Geography at Supra-Regional Scales, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto, Japan.

2018

Klehm, C. Were the margins truly marginal? Geospatial and archaeometric approaches to examining inequality and globalization during the Iron Age in southern Africa. D epartment of Anthropology Brown Bag, Stony Brook University, February 8. Stony Brook, NY.

Wernke, S., VanValkenburgh, P., and Saito, A. 2018. “Implementing Collaborative Digital Humanities Tools for Andean Archaeology and History.” Invited presentation at the workshop Andean Archaeologists of Central New York, Syracuse University.

Wernke, S., VanValkenburgh, P., and Saito, A. 2018. “Building Collaborative Digital Humanities Platforms for Andean Archaeology and History.” Invited presentation at Thinking Through the Archives, Digital Humanities Best Practices Workshop, organized by Peter C. Macall, University of Southern California.

Wernke, S., VanValkenburgh, P., and Saito, A. 2018. “Reflections on Digital Humanities Toolbuilding for Andean Archaeology and History.” Invited presentation at SHARE NEH Planning Grant Focus Group Site Visit. Center for Digital Humanities, Vanderbilt University.

Wernke, S., VanValkenburgh, P., and Saito, A. 2018. “Implementing Collaborative Digital Humanities Tools for the Andean Archaeology and History.” Invited presentation at Digital Humanities and the History of Slavery, A Workshop to Enhance Research, Collaboration and Graduate Training, organized by Jane Landers, Vanderbilt University.



Subsequent Grants and Proposals Based on SPARC Project Results

2022

Elfrieda Frank Foundation, “Expanding Archaeological Research and Opportunities in Northern New England,” $136,000 (2022-2024) (R: PI: Casana; Co-PIs Madeleine McLeester and Nathaniel Kitchel)

Caribbean Digital Scholarship Collective, "3D Sans-Souci: Rendering digital heritage for accessibility and inclusivity," $13,550 (2022-2023)(PI: Klehm, C; Co-PIs Frederick Mangones and J. Cameron Monroe).

National Endowment for the Humanities, "Foundations of the Urban Cholula Salvage Archaeology Geodatabase,” $50,000 (2022-2023) (PI: Klehm, C.; Co PIs Angelia Payne and Malcolm Williamson).

2021

National Endowment for the Humanities, Digital Humanities Program, “Archaeorover: Harnessing autonomous robot technology to reveal buried archaeology,” $99,692 (2021-2023) (Co-PI: Casana, PI, Austin Chad Hill).

NASA, Space Archaeology Program, “Exploring Archaeological Landscapes using satellite, aerial, and drone-acquried short-wave infared (SWIR) imagery,” $281,201 (2020-2023) (Casana, Co-PIs: Todd Surovell, Ari Caramanica, Luis J.B Castillo, and Thegn Ladefoged)

Elfrieda Frank Foundation, “Archaeological Investigations in Northern New England,” $125,000 (2021-2022) (PI: Casana, Co-PIs Madeleine McLeester and Nathaniel Kitchel)

2020

National Science Foundation, National Robotics Initiative 2.0, “Collaborative Research: NRI: INT: Cooperative Underwater Structure Inspection and Mapping,” $403,352 (2020-2024) (Co-PI: Casana, PI: Alberto Quattrini Li).

2020-2022. National Endowment for the Humanities, Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities –“SAROI: Spatial Archaeology Residential and Online Studies.” C. Klehm, PI; W. F. Limp, Co-PI; J. Cothren, Co-PI. $218,090 USD.

2019

2019. National Science Foundation – “Acquisition of a Laser-Ablation System for Trace Element Mapping and Large-N Geochronology by Inductively-Coupled-Plasma Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS).” D. Viete, PI; M.L. Gomes, Co-PI; M.J. Harrower, Co-PI; W.R. Nelson, Co-PI; E. Smith, Co-PI. $216,504 USD.

2018

2018-present. Vanderbilt University Trans-Institutional Programs – Vanderbilt Initiative for Interdisciplinary Geospatial Research (VIIGR). Steven A. Wernke, P.I.

2018-present. American Council of Learned Societies – Digital Extension Grant – “Extending GeoPACHA: Geospatial Platform for Andean Culture, History, and Archaeology.” Steven A. Wernke, P.I. $150,000 USD.

2018-present Australian Research Council. Discovery Early Career Research Award – “Strategic resources and human cooperation in the rise of social complexity in southeastern Arabia” J. Lehner, PI; M.J. Harrower, Collaborator; A. Herries, Collaborator; D. Jacob, Collaborator; S. Nathan, Collaborator; I. Dumitru, Collaborator. $384,983 AUS.

2018-present. Digital Globe Foundation in kind satellite imagery grant – “Automated archaeological feature detection through semantic segmentation of satellite imagery” $120,000 USD.

2018. College of Arts and Science Conference Grant – “Unsettling Resettlement: Forced Concentration of the Native Population in the Colonial Andes.” Akira Saito and Steven A. Wernke, Organizers.

2017

2017-2019. Vanderbilt University Trans-Institutional Programs – “VUSAT: Vanderbilt University Satellite Initiative.” Amrutur Anilkumar, PI; Steven A. Wernke, Co-PI; Ralf Bennartz, Co-PI.

2017. SPARC grant – “Bosutswe Landscapes Regional Survey: Building a Predictive GIS Model of Archaeological Sites in the African Interior.” Carla Klehm, PI. $10,276 USD.

2017. Johns Hopkins University Catalyst Award Program – Trade, Civilization, and Spatial Archaeology: Mapping Ancient Copper and Chlorite Trade Networks.” M. Harrower, PI; D. Viete, Collaborator; K. Livi – Collaborator. $74,943 USD.

2017. Johns Hopkins University Space@Hopkins Program. “Detecting Archaeological Sites and Raw Material Sources in Satellite Imagery.” M. Harrower, PI; D. Viete, Co-PI; B. Ménard, Co-PI; B. Zaitchik, Co-PI; C. Priebe, Co-PI. $24,953 USD.



Residencies

2023

Madelaine Azar (University of North Carolina Chapel Hill). Azar's residency project, "Pottery, Politics, and Religion in the Central Mississippi River Valley, AD 1350-1550," involves the exchange of techniques and experiences with the 3D documentation of decorated pottery. More specifically, Azar and CAST will 1) refine workflows associated with close-range photogrammetry, especially for publication using 3DHOP; and 2) explore the utility of scanning in addition to, or in place of, photogrammetry for future work.

2022

Edward Henry (Colorado State University) and Claiborne Sea (University of Alabama). Henry and Sea's residency project, "GPS-Guided Sled for EM Geophysical Survey," focuses on the construction of a sled for a Geonics EM38-MK2 Electromagnetic Induction Meter, where it can rest (without being held) and be pulled (by an ATV) over greater distances than traditional pedestrian survey while maintaining geodetic control over the location of the instrument. Henry and Sea plan to test the sled in upcoming fieldwork on Oklahoma and Kentucky.

Berk Suleyman (City University of New York and Istanbul Technical University) and Jane Rempel (University of Sheffield). Suleyman and Rempel's residency project, "GNSS Project Integration," seeks to train multiple team members from the Sinop Regional Archaeology Project in the use of SRAP's new Emlid Reach GNSS equipment. The residency concentrated on developing a workflow for SRAP team members to follow as they collect field data, and ensure that new data is interoperable with legacy data.



Final Reports

Project Name:
Five Lands Geospatial Project
Project PI:
Carter
Keywords:
analytics, geospatial analysis, least-cost pathways, viewshed analysis
Report:
PDF
Project Name:
3D GPR Survey at the Poverty Point World Heritage Site
Project PI:
Dalan
Keywords:
fieldwork, equipment use
Report:
PDF
Project Name:
Geospatial Analytics at Gast Farm, a Multicomponent Site in the Upper Mississippi River Valley
Project PI:
Green
Keywords:
fieldwork, geophysics, magnetic gradiometry, photogrammetry
Report:
PDF
Project Name:
Mapping the Iron Age Metalworking Site of As-Safah (Oman)
Project PI:
Harrower
Keywords:
fieldwork, geophysics, magnetometry
Report:
PDF
Project Name:
A 3D Digital Collection and Virtual Exhibit for Santa Ana Tavela's Community Museum
Project PI:
King
Keywords:
analytics, virtual museum, photogrammetry, structure from motion
Report:
PDF
Project Name:
Bosutswe Landscapes: Exploring early African towns through geophysics and photogrammetry
Project PI:
Klehm
Keywords:
fieldwork, geophysics, aerial remote sensing, photogrammetry, sUAS (drone) survey
Report:
PDF
Project Name:
Bosutswe Landscapes Regional Survey: Building a Predictive GIS Model of Archaeological Sites in the African Interior
Project PI:
Klehm
Keywords:
analytics, predictive modelling, satellite imagery analysis, high-resolution imagery, site prospection
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Evaluating Competition Between Chaco-Style Great Houses in the Southern Cibola Region of West-Central Mexico
Project PI:
Safi
Keywords:
fieldwork, sUAS (drone) survey, aerial thermography, geophysics, ground penetrating radar
Report:
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Dionisio Point Village Archaeology Project
Project PI:
Dolan
Keywords:
fieldwork, geophysics, magnetic gradiometry
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Malthi Mapping and Digitization Project
Project PI:
Worsham
Keywords:
fieldwork, terrestrial laser scanning, photogrammetry, 3D modeling
Report:
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Marzuolo Archaeological Project: Crafting Innovation and Community in The Roman Countryside
Project PI:
Vennarucci
Keywords:
fieldwork, analytics, geospatial analysis, photogrammetry, database design
Report:
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Project Name:
Modeling Long-Term Water Management Strategies on the Irrigated Plan of Mian-ab, in the Khuzistan Province of Iran
Project PI:
Soroush
Keywords:
analytics, aerial imagery, photogrammetry, CORONA imagery
Report:
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Project Name:
Using Total Viewsheds to Evaluate Visibility in the Placement of Chacoan Monumental Architecture
Project PI:
Dungan
Keywords:
analytics, geospatial analysis, viewshed analysis
Report:
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Project Name:
Turning the Landscape into a Stela: The Mechanics of Egyptian Royal Rock Inscriptions
Project PI:
Thum
Keywords:
fieldwork, photogrammetry, sUAS (drone) survey
Report:
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