Category: Conference Presentations

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Upcoming SAA Presentation!

Daniel Plekhov, Linda Gosner, and Jessica Nowlin will be presenting a paper at the upcoming Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon. The paper, “Remote sensing methods for investigating modern-day land-use intensity in archaeological landscapes: a case study from the Sinis Archaeological Project, Sardinia,” will highlight some new remote sensing methods that Dan has been working on in conjunction with our survey in Zones A and B.

The paper will be a part of the symposium, Mutually Beneficial: Technologies in Archaeological application and Archaeologies in Technological Application Part II, in B117, 8:45-12 pm on Friday, March 31. More information is available here.

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Upcoming team presentations at the University of Michigan 2/14-2/15

Project co-director Linda Gosner has organized a conference on Connectivity and Mobility in the Ancient Western Mediterranean.  Check out the website here. As a part of the event, several members of SAP will be giving presentations:

  • Connectivity and Mobility among Indigenous Groups in Sardinia and Southern Iberia, Kelly Miklas (University of Missouri)
  • At the Margins of “Orientalization”: Funerary Ritual and Local Practice in Apennine Central Italy, Jessica Nowlin (UT San Antonio)
  • Mining, Movement, and Migration in Roman Iberia, Linda Gosner (University of Michigan)
  • Intra and Inter-inland Connectivity in the Balearic Islands in Antiquity, Catalina Mas (University of Barcelona).

 

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Upcoming presentations at AIA 2020

The annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America will be held this year in Washington D.C. from January 2nd-5th. We will be presenting aspects of our fieldwork in two sessions:

Session 3J: Landscapes of Mediterranean “Colonization,” Friday January 3, 1:45-4:45, “An Uncaptured Sardinia? Intra-Regional Mobility and Connectivity the Coastal and Inland Landscapes of Iron Age Sardinia”

Session 4I: Surveying the Punic World, Saturday, January 4, 8-10:30, “Sinis Archaeological Project: Results from the 2018 and 2019 Seasons of Landscape Survey in West-Central Sardinia”

Some of our team members are also presenting on their own research:

Session 7F: Carthage: World City, Sunday, January 5, 8:00-11:00, “Carthaginian Imperialism: The Colonial Perspective” by James Prosser (University of Michigan)

Session 2C: Open Session Fieldwork and Survey in Egypt and the Ancient Near East, Friday, January 3 (10:45 AM – 12:45 PM, “Brown University Petra Terraces Archaeological Project: 2019 Methods and Results” by Daniel Plekhov, Brown University Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, Evan I. Levine, Brown University Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, Luiza O. G. Silva, University of Chicago, and Max Peers, Brown University Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World

For more information, check out the preliminary program here.