Last week we informed about the Nick Ryan Bursary 2017. The nominated student papers are highlighted below. All conference delegates at CAA Atlanta are encouraged to attend these papers to support these individuals and to make an informed decision in their vote.
Nazarij Buławka
PhD Candidate, University of Warsaw
Ancient landscapes and present-day agriculture – on the example of Tejen River (Turkmenistan)
Session: Mobile GIS and field survey – current possibilities, future needs
Ashely Green
Full-time PhD student at Bournemouth University, UK
Information systems and ad hoc workflow models as viable assets for the pre-excavation detection of human interments
Session: Automation is here to stay! The hitch-hiker’s guide to automated object detection and image processing in remote sensing
Vivian S. James
Doctoral student in the University at Albany Department of Anthropology
Context as Theory: Towards Unification of Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology
Session: General – GIS
Claudine Gravel-Miguel
Arizona State University PhD candidate; will defend in April 2017
Using an ABM to evaluate the impact of missing links on our interpretation of social networks
Session: Archaeological networks: Uncertainty, missing data, and statistical inference
Rebecca Napolitano
Graduate student year 2, Princeton University
Digital Workflow for Structural Analysis of Discontinuous Media
Session: Structural Analysis for Cultural Heritage
Samantha Thi Porter
PhD student (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
A Comparative Analysis of Châtelperronian and Protoaurignacian Blade Core Technology Using Data Derived from 3D Models
Session: Close Range 3D Data Acquisition, Processing, Querying and Presentation in Cultural Heritage
Emma Slayton
Leiden University PhD student, final year
Seafaring with Mental Sign Posts: Connecting Materials with Canoe Routes in the Archaic Age Northern Lesser Antilles
Session: General
Andrew Upton
Doctoral student at Michigan State University
Frontier Networks: Cultural Transmission and Multiple Relations at the Intersection of Mississippian and Oneota Worlds
Session: Archaeological Networks: Uncertainty, Missing Data, and Statistical Inference