2025 Conference | Schedule

You can find the program for our online Digital Archaeology Conference, correct as of September 30th, below. Please note, times are given in both New Zealand Daylight Saving Time and Australian Eastern Standard Time.

The full abstracts for the talks are available here.

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

Links in the title will take you to each talk uploaded to our YouTube channel. Please note, talks marked with a ^ will not be uploaded at the end of the conference. Papers marked with a * are lightning talks.

Day 1 (October 2)

WELCOME AND OPENING (12:00pm NZDT / 9:00am AEST)
Aleks Michalewicz | Chair of CAA Australasia

WELCOME TO COUNTRY (12:05pm NZDT / 9:05am AEST)
Aunty Georgina Nicholson | Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung

KEYNOTE (12:20pm NZDT / 9:20am AEST)
Visualising Ancestral Futures
Brett Leavy | Bilbie XR Labs

LUNCH (1.20pm NZDT / 10.20am AEST)

SESSION 1 (2:30pm NZDT / 11.30am AEST)

CHAIR Frederick Hardtke | Macquarie University

LiDAR and Medieval Urban Landscapes in Sri Lanka
Bradley Young, Paul Penzo-Kajewski, Rebekah Kurpiel, Prishanta Gunawardhana, Keir Strickland | 2.30pm NZDT / 11.30am AEST

A QGIS-Based Visibility Analysis of the Jeju-ro Beacon Network in the Joseon Dynasty of Korea
Daeyoun Cho, Sanggu Han | 2.50pm NZDT / 11.50am AEST

Re-populating the Bangucheon Stream World Heritage Landscape with GIS Data
Ilhong Ko, Woo Jin Shim | 3.10pm NZDT / 12.10pm AEST

BREAK (3.30pm NZDT / 12.30pm AEST)

SESSION 2 (3:50pm NZDT / 12.50pm AEST)

CHAIR John McCarthy | Flinders University

Aura and Presence with digital heritage: The usefulness of Augmented Reality*
Calum Farrar | 3.50pm NZDT / 12.50pm AEST

Digital strategies for engagement with First Nations Underwater Cultural Heritage^
John McCarthy | 4.00pm NZDT / 1.00pm AEST

The Guam Rock Art Study: Digital archaeology and creative/artistic expression
Aja Reyes | 4.20pm NZDT / 1.20pm AEST

Data Ethics in Aerial Archaeology at Angkor
Sayumphu Ros | 4.40pm NZDT / 1.40pm AEST

BREAK (5.00pm NZDT / 2.00pm AEST)

SESSION 3 (5:20pm NZDT / 2.20pm AEST)

CHAIR Michael Rampe | Pedestal3D

Do You See What I See? Digital methods on the Marzuolo Archaeological Project*
Thomas Keep | 5.20pm NZDT / 2.20pm AEST

A Non-Uniform Processing Method (NUPM) for Large Photogrammetry Datasets: Case Study of Shams-ol-Emareh, Golestan Palace (UNESCO World Heritage Site), Iran
Amin Ranjbari, Andrea Jalandoni, Atiyeh Ghorbani | 5.30pm NZDT / 2.30pm AEST

Shopping in Colonial Parramatta
Elizabeth West | 5.50pm NZDT / 2.50pm AEST

Living like a Viking: A Digital Living Museum Reconstruction of Coppergate
Tess Cornwall | 6.10pm NZDT / 3.00pm AEST

END OF DAY (6.30pm NZDT / 3.20pm AEST)

Day 2 (October 3)

CHAIR OPENS (2:15pm NZDT / 11:15am AEST)
Aleks Michalewicz | Chair of CAA Australasia

SESSION 4 (2:20pm NZDT / 11.20am AEST)

CHAIR Simon Wyatt-Spratt | University of Sydney

Establishing photogrammetry in practice at Auckland Museum
Joshua Emmitt, Richard Ng | 2.20pm NZDT / 11.20am AEST

Progress and Lessons from the Digitisation of a Maritime Museum Fleet
Michael Rampe, Katherine Moitino | 2.40pm NZDT / 11.40am AEST

Unidentified Darling Harbour Boat 1 – Managing the Digital Journey
Michael Rampe, Benjamin Wharton | 3.00pm NZDT / 12.00pm AEST

BREAK (3.20pm NZDT / 12.20pm AEST)

SESSION 5 (4:00pm NZDT / 1.00pm AEST)

CHAIR Michael Rampe | Pedestal3D

Going with the flow: A pilot experimental investigation into the in-water behaviour of pre-contact Māori fishing lures
Bradley McDonald | 4.00pm NZDT / 1.00pm AEST

Over the City Walls: A UAV Survey Analysis of Extramural Features at Kerkenes Dağı^
Hannah Chow | 4.20pm NZDT / 1.20pm AEST

The Use of Linked Open Data Location Identifiers for Pacific Archaeology
Kristine Hardy, Mathieu Leclerc | 4.40pm NZDT / 1.40pm AEST

BREAK (5.00pm NZDT / 2.00pm AEST)

SESSION 6 (5:40pm NZDT / 2.40pm AEST)

CHAIR Emily Tour | University of Melbourne

From ‘data banks’ to AI : are databases redundant?
Ian Johnson | 5.40pm NZDT / 2.40pm AEST

A Map to Navigate the Data Archipelago: the “Open-archeOcsean” Catalogue of Open-source Datasets for Pacific and Southeast Asia Archaeology. Situation, Limits, and Prospects^
Sébastien Plutniak | 6.00pm NZDT / 3.00pm AEST

The SUGAR project: Sweetening archaeological data management from fieldwork to laboratory
Sofia Samper Carro, Xavier Roda Gilabert, Javier Sanchez Martinez, Susana Vega Bolivar, Jorge Martinez-Moreno, Rafael Mora Torcal | 6.20pm NZDT / 3.20pm AEST

END OF CONFERENCE (6.40pm NZDT / 3.40pm AEST)