2020 Conference – Schedule

You can find the program for our Digital Archaeology Conference, correct as of September 09, below. Please note, times are given in both New Zealand and Australian Eastern Standard Time. You can also download the full program with individual talk times here.

You can find the full abstracts for the talks and posters here.

Click here to register for attendance. All attendees and presenters must abide by the CAA International Ethics Policy.

Please note, talks marked with a * will not be uploaded to YouTube at the end of the conference.

Day 1 (September 11)

OPENING AND WELCOME (11:00am NZT / 9:00am AEST)
Joshua Emmitt, President of CAA Australasia

KEYNOTE (11:25am NZT / 9.25am AEST)
Freedom, Revolution, and Digital Archaeology
Simon Holdaway

SESSION 1 PHOTOGRAMMETRY (12.25pm NZT / 10.25am AEST)

CHAIR Joshua Emmitt

Photogrammetry of Perachora Waterworks: work in progress
Michael Rampe

Digital advancement in Northern Territory rock art research
Andrea Jalandoni

Sethlans in the 21st Century: 3D applications to Etruscan bronze armour and modern reconstructions
Jeremy Armstrong, Timothy Mackrell, Nicholas Harrison, Joshua Emmitt

BREAK (1.35pm NZT / 11.35am AEST)

SESSION 2 DATA MANAGEMENT (2.00pm NZT / 12.00pm AEST)

CHAIR Matthew Barrett

Digital data management: tedious compliance or exciting opportunity?*
Aleks Michalewicz

Maritime Archaeology and 3D Digital Libraries
John McCarthy

Emerging Technology: RPAs, Digital Twin, and Quantum Computing
Katherine Thomas

ARISE: A Digital Archaeology Research Group in Brazil
Tomás Partiti Cafagne, Alex Martire, Vagner Porto,  Priscilla Ulguim, Amanda Viveiros Pina, Vinicius Marino, Caroline Oliveira, Matheus Morais, Angélica Jordani, Cleberson Moura

BREAK (3.20pm NZT / 01.20pm AEST)

SESSION 3 DATA MANAGEMENT CONT. (3.40pm NZT / 1.40pm AEST)

CHAIR Joshua Emmitt

The International Space Station Archaeological Project: Data Management Challenges
Amir Kanan Kashefi, Justin Walsh, Alice Gorman, Rao Hamza Ali, Erik Linstead

Praxis and digital field recording: How digital tools change the way we relate to the archaeological record*
Kristen Mann

FAIMS 3.0: Electronic Field Notebooks
Shawn Ross, Brian Ballsun-Stanton, Steve Cassidy, Penny Crook, Adela Sobotkova, Jens Klump

40 years, 20:20 vision: why we still need domain-specific databases
Ian Johnson

Day 2 (September 12)

SESSION 4 GIS (10.40am NZT / 8.40am AEST)

CHAIR Katherine Thomas

GIS: Griffins In Space
Emily Simons

Experiencing the dead: GIS and the Phenomenology of Funerary Practice in EBA North Mesopotamia
Agata M.C. Calabrese

Spatial Applications to Rock Art in the North Island of Aotearoa New Zealand
Patricia Pillay, Gerard O’Regan, Joshua Emmitt

Re-mapping the Fortifications of the New Zealand Wars with High Resolution LiDAR
Ben Jones, Simon Bickler, Jaime Grant   

Neolithic Temples of Malta: 3D analysis points to novel roof reconstruction
Madeline Robinson, Augustine Porter, Will Figueira, Roland Fletcher

POSTER SESSION (12.20pm NZT / 10.20am AEST)

CHAIR Simon Wyatt-Spratt

SESSION 5 QUANTITATIVE (12.40 pm NZT / 10.40am AEST)

CHAIR Joshua Emmitt

Flake to Core Ratios, Computer Simulation, and Human Mobility
Matthew Barrett

Morphological and Elemental Analyses of Ancient Egyptian Shabtis*
Michelle F. Whitford, Simon Wyatt-Spratt, Damian B. Gore, Mattias T. Johnsson, Ronika K. Power, Michael Rampe, Candace Richards, Michael J. Withford

Digitising ferrous objects through radiography
Sylvana Szydzik, David Roe

Assessing formation with 3D point densities
Joshua Emmitt, Rebecca Phillipps, Sina Masoud-Ansari, Simon Holdaway

Investigating Hidden Texts on Encased Cuneiform Tablets using Synchrotron X-ray and Neutron Imaging
Carla Raymond, Charalambos Rossides, Luis Siddall, Christopher Davey, Joseph Bevitt

Documentation methods of a polychrome coffin, dating back to the Late Period at Saqqara, Egypt
Abdelmoniem M. Abdelmoniem

SESSION 6 ENGAGEMENT (2.40pm NZT / 12.40pm AEST)

CHAIR Claire Reeler

Museums at home: access to digital archaeology during the COVID-19 crisis*
Jessie Birkett-Rees, Andrew Connor

New Eyes on Old Objects: photogrammetry as a pedagogical tool for teaching archaeology
Alix Thoeming, Lesley Beaumont, Simon Wyatt-Spratt

The end for Sahul Time… Introducing Temporal Earth!
Matthew Coller, David Thomas, Rebekah Kurpiel, Caroline Spry, Jacqueline Tumney

BREAK (3.40pm NZT / 1.40pm AEST)

SESSION 7 ENGAGEMENT CONT. (4.00pm NZT / 2.00pm AEST)

CHAIR Olivier Rochecouste

(Re)Constructions and Receptions: Critical Engagement with Video Games Set in Antiquity
Rita Zhang

The Mernda VR Project
Tom Keep

Privacy in Digital Work and Research
Claire Reeler

CLOSE (5.00pm NZT / 3.00pm AEST)

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