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Archaeological Database Creation and Management Basics [Deeper Digs]
When: November 07, 2023 3:00-5:00 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
Dr. Ossa has over 22 years of experience in archaeology including 11 years in a Cultural Resource Management setting. Before joining SUNY Oswego as tenure-track faculty, she worked for ACS (Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd.), the University of Pittsburgh’s Center for Comparative Archaeology, the Department of Anthropology at Arizona State University, the Office of Cultural Resource Management at Arizona State University, and the Cultural Resource Management Program at the Gila River Indian Community. To date, she continues to do consulting work through Logan Simpson Design for the Gila River Indian Community. From 2001 to 2008, she worked as an archaeological database consultant for the Cultural Resource Management Program at the Gila River Indian Community. Prior to that, she taught an intensive course in SQL (Structured Query Language) to IT professionals. For the purposes of the course, she wrote a brief SQL Tutorial and introduction. As ACS’ Senior Ceramic Analyst, and lab manager prior to joining the faculty at SUNY Oswego, she analyzed ceramic materials and wrote the reports on ceramic materials from testing, data recovery, and monitoring projects, and was responsible for curation from beginning to end. She has experience with collections from central Arizona, central New Mexico, the Northeast (Iroquois), and several locations in Mexico including the Gulf coast (Veracruz), central Highlands, and the West coast.
- Describe how database creation is an important component of research design in archaeology
- Identify basic archaeological database architecture using common examples from real-life databases
- Demonstrate how to apply relational database structures to common archaeological organizational challenges using museum and research project examples
- Outline strategies to handle database changes by creating flexible data structures as applied to archaeological data with practical examples
![Investigating the Paleoecological Implications for Hominin Dispersal(s) in the Pinjore Formation, Siwalik Hills, Northern India [SALSA]](/images/default-source/default-library/salsa.tmb-seminar.png?Culture=en&sfvrsn=5a8ae04b_1)
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Investigating the Paleoecological Implications for Hominin Dispersal(s) in the Pinjore Formation, Siwalik Hills, Northern India [SALSA]
When: October 20, 2023 12:00-1:00 PM ET
Duration: 1 hour
Certification: None
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The role of environmental stimuli in human evolution, expansion and extinction has been highlighted time and again by scholars. Global climate changes from forest-dominated to grassland-dominated environments in the Plio-Pleistocene period have been identified as an important factor for hominin dispersal around the Old World. However, in light of recent research this priority is being questioned and debated. Fossils of Homo erectus, one of the first known early human species to expand outside of Africa, have been discovered from Early Pleistocene deposits of East Europe, West Asia, and Southeast Asia, thereby placing the Indian Subcontinent in general - and the Siwalik Hills in particular - as an important dispersal route. However, apart from the chronologically and taxonomically ambiguous Hathnora cranium, no unequivocal fossil hominin remains have yet been reported from the region. Based on the presence of fauna often associated with Homo erectus, like Theropithecus oswaldi, Hippopotamus, and Megantereon in the Early-Middle Pleistocene deposits of the Siwalik Hills, scholars have predicted the presence of hominin remains in the region, yet none have been found. Currently, lithic artifacts are the only known signatures of hominin occupation in the region, primarily occurring as surface deposits without secure dates. The Pinjore Formation (2.58-0.63Ma), north of Chandigarh represents the most extensive and the only continuous Early-Middle Pleistocene deposit in the region with a rich record of fossilized vertebrate remains and recently, ostrich eggshells. In light of absence of stratified lithic deposit and secure dates, palaeoecological and faunal analogies with other Early-Middle Pleistocene hominin bearing sites, can provide an adequate explanation for presence or absence of hominins in the region.
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Project Management in Archaeology: How to Finish on Budget and Ahead of Schedule while Meeting Expectations [Foundational Skills]
When: October 11, 2023 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
Dr. Brannan currently serves as the Director of Archaeology for New South Associates, Inc., a women-owned small business providing cultural resource management services in the southeastern United States and beyond. In his current role, he serves as the administrative manager for the Archaeology Department as well as the project manager and subject matter expert for several ongoing archaeological projects. He has conducted archaeological surveys, testing, data recovery, public outreach, and consultation with and on behalf of private, state, federal, and tribal agencies. He has evaluated numerous archaeological sites for the NRHP under Section 106 and 110 of the NHPA, as well as multiple state registers. His experience encompasses Precontact period and Indigenous residential, monumental, ritual, and mortuary sites; as well as historic domestic, urban, military, and funerary sites. He has conducted projects on behalf of and in consultation with numerous state and federal agencies, including: several state Departments of Transportation, the University of Georgia, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the National Forest Service, the National Park Service, the Tennessee Valley Authority, Georgia Department of Natural Resources, and Georgia Power Company. His active research interests include organizationally complex middle range societies, anthropological and archaeological theory, settlement archaeology, regional survey, and the applications of
project management.
- Define project management and its basic approaches
- Describe the role of scope, schedule, and budget to individual projects
- Identify the parameters of project success
- Outline how to prepare for and avoid common project management pitfalls