Tag: Archaeology
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Mapping Morton Village: Writing the Content
In this post, I would like to discuss what will be included within the Mapping Morton Village interactive map. For the past several weeks, Nikki Silva and myself have been working on the written content of Mapping Morton Village. We decided to write the content of the site with the public in mind, focusing on…
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Mapping Morton Village: Coding the Website
Mapping Morton Village — writing the basic code for the website. For the past two weeks, I have been working on the code for my joint CHI Fellowship project with Nikki Silva: Mapping Morton Village. We knew the general structure of what we wanted the site to look like and using a bootstrap theme I created the…
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Mapping Morton Village – A Digital Archaeological Experience
What is the Morton Village Site? Why did we choose to use it for our fellowship project? Our project will be focused around a single archaeological site, Morton Village. The Morton Village site is a integrated Mississippian and Oneota habitation site, located in the Central Illinois River Valley, dating from around AD 1300 to 1400.…
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The New Philadelphia Augmented Reality Tour App
This past week I attended the Midwest Archaeological Conference in Milwaukee, WI. One of the talks I found very interesting and relevant to our CHI Fellowship was by Christopher Fennel of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne, titled: New Philadelphia, Illinois: From Research Project to National Historic Landmark. He spoke about the significance of the site,…
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Tumulus: A Mapping Archive of Northern Albanian Burial Mounds – Final Words
My CHI project, Tumulus, which can be found here, is an archive of archaeological data that were collected from previous field seasons in northern Albania. Rather than keeping data hidden away in FileMaker, our efforts are best served, I think, when they are made available and others can use them – particularly since a dizzying…
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Excavating the Digital Sub-Strata of an Archaeology Conference
The Joint Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) and the American Philological Association (APA) was held January 3rd – 6th, 2013 in Seattle, Washington. I went to this annual meeting for a variety of reasons: 1) present my preliminary research findings on the Neolithic mortuary practices of southern Greece; 2) network with…
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Adventures in Archaeology: Charlotte Marie Cable enters the digital world
Community archaeology, Mid-East anthropology, Alaska, Adventure, Cycling, and Logophilia Archaeology is the search for culture through material: intangible ideas about the world are made tangible through the ways we arrange and rearrange our physical worlds to reflect those ideas. These physical remains are what we archaeologists study: and usually, we study these remains by their…