Faculty and students from the IUP Anthropology, Geospatial and Earth Sciences Department traveled to Denver, CO, to participate in the Society for American Archaeology annual meeting.
While there, they chaired sessions, presented on their ongoing work, participated in the SAA Ethics Bowl, and represented IUP and the Applied Archaeology program at the Cultural Resource Management Expo.
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Graduate student Nathan Coughlin chaired a session on “The Future of Geoarchaeology: Student Research and Insights.” This session focused on bringing together undergraduate and graduate students to showcase the work they have been doing.
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Faculty and students (indicated by *) were part of the following projects that were presented at the meeting:
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Francis Allard: “The environmental and social dimensions of early maritime interaction networks in the South China Sea”
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William Chadwick: “Geoarchaeology: A Tool to Focus CRM Archaeological Testing”
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Nathan Coughlin*: “Deep beneath the Surface: A Geophysical and Geomorphic Assessment of the Mary Rinn Archaeological Site”
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Tyler Fanell*: “Using GPR to Characterize Sediments along the Conemaugh River”
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Elena Frye*: “Geophysical Investigations at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus”
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Emma Kinsinger*: “From Quarry to Village: Lithic Resource Exploitation in Monongahela Cultural Tradition Johnston Phase Sites”
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Elizabeth McCreary*: “A Geophysical Survey of a French and Indian War Friendly Fire Incident Site”
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Rachael Tuite*: “The Dry Creek Crossroad: Traditional Knowledge and Petroglyphs”
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Elena Vories*: “A Study of Mississippian Shell Site Occupation: Analyzing Subsurface Anomalies Detected through Ground-Penetrating Radar and Their Chronological Associations at Green’s Shell Enclosure in Hilton Head, South Carolina”
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IUP and the University of Oregon had a combined Ethics Bowl Team this year, advised by Andrea Palmiotto and William Chadwick from IUP. University teams of three to five graduate and undergraduate students engaged in debate about solutions to real-world ethical dilemmas faced by archaeologists in academia, museums, and cultural resource management. Responses to these dilemmas were judged based on knowledge and application of ethical principles, personal experiences, and legal precedents/laws.
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Team members representing IUP were Nicolette Cloutier (undergraduate), Dakota Dickerson (graduate student), David Nagele (undergraduate), Isabel Srour (graduate student), and undergraduate Derrik Schmidt from the University of Oregon.
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William Chadwick also represented the IUP Applied Archaeology program at the CRM Expo. Sponsored by the American Cultural Resources Association and the SAA, the CRM Expo is one of the largest in-person gatherings of employers in the CRM industry, with representatives from 30 CRM firms and applied archaeology programs available to chat informally and individually with expo attendees about their organizations, career paths available, etc.
