The Call for Papers for the CAA Australasia 2021 Digital Archaeology Conference closed on Friday 03 September. You can view the session abstracts below.
The conference is being held on the 16 – 18 September 2021. Registration to attend the conference is now open. You can view the complete conference schedule here, and the full lists of abstracts here. The conference registration is free of charge and open to all.
S1. PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND 3D MODELLING IN HERITAGE
Convenor(s): Thomas Keep, The University of Melbourne
Friday 17 September
In the pandemic years of 2020 and 2021, the pre-existing need for remote access to heritage materials was emphasized, as opportunities for travel to visit collections were curtailed, and even domestic collections became periodically inaccessible. Photogrammetric modelling has been adopted by a number of major heritage collections across the globe and uploaded to the internet to preserve some degree of experience of their collections when in-person visits are no longer possible. Photogrammetry is also being utilized in research excavations in the development of new research and excavation methodologies, as in Early Bronze Age sites on Keros, Greece.
With the method growing in applications and popularity, this session would invite people to express the various applications they have undertaken, and discuss the benefits and challenges they have faced. I would like to suggest a panel session, with a group of speakers each presenting for 10-15 minutes, followed by 10-15 minutes for discussion or field questions from the audience.
S2. RECENT ADVANCES IN COMPUTATIONAL ARCHAEOLOGY OF EAST AND SOUTHEAST ASIA
Convenor(s): Liying Wang, University of Washington
Friday 17 September
The development of novel computer applications for archaeology provides significant contributions to expand our understanding of ancient cultures. Computational methods help reveal hidden patterns in data we collect and have been commonly applied in many archaeological fields and practices in recent years. This session aims to bring together archaeologists working in East and Southeast Asia using computational methods and statistical techniques for data analysis or data collection to answer anthropological questions. Since many places in this region share similar cultural traditions and archaeology, one goal of this session is to provide an opportunity for researchers to exchange ideas as a basis for future establishment of an East/Southeast Asia chapter. This session will showcase the diversity of applications, including computational modeling, GIS, network analysis, or any other applications of digital and quantitative methods to archaeological data from new perspectives. Every speaker will give a 15-20 mins presentation and the session will end with a brief discussion of a new CAA local chapter. Submissions from early career researchers are particularly encouraged and welcome.
S3. CURRENT AND DEVELOPING PRACTICES IN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY
Convenor(s): Matthew Barrett and Joshua Emmitt, The University of Auckland
Saturday 18 September
Recording and surveying archaeological work is a varied and rapidly developing practice. Since the uptake of digital recording methods, the amount of data being generated has increased, along with the ways in which these data are recorded. Paper-based recording is giving way to a suite of digital equipment such as total stations and GPS for generating spatial data, digital cameras and laser scanners for three-dimensional modelling, and drones for aerial photography. Equally varied are the ways in which these different surveying methods are being integrated into workflows and how data are being integrated into site- or project-wide databases to meet specific needs. This session invites papers that present archaeological survey and recording methodologies and workflows from the scale of the excavation unit to the wider landscape.
S4. GENERAL SESSION
Convenor(s): Olivier Rouchcoste, Macquarie University, and Katherine Thomas, La Trobe University
Saturday 18 September
This session show cases a wide array of case studies utilising digital archaeology.
