Department Affiliations
Narrative
MS Industrial Archaeology, Michigan Tech, 1998. Research Interests: Roman landscape archaeology, historical/industrial archaeology, Geographic Information Science, quantitative methods, archaeological mapping. My work lies at the confluence of archaeology and geographic information science. Archaeologists by and large tend to use GIS uncritically, without regard to how GIS both enables and constrains the kind of research questions that they ask, and how that research gets executed. My dissertation research involves a sort of case study in how to incorporate GI science into archaeological research, through the creation of a hybridized least-cost model to locate ancient Roman road courses through landscapes, incorporating the results of both GIS analysis of landscapes and extensive inquiry into the land-use history of a region to produce a better result than either method could alone. The study area for this work is in County Cumbria, United Kingdom, within Lake District National Park. This research is supported by generous data grants from Ordnance Survey UK, and Lake District National Park. Dr Peter Wells and Dr Mark Lindberg are co-advisors for this project.
Specialties
- Landscape Archaeology
- Geographic Information Science
- Spatial Analysis
- Archaeological/Environmental Modeling
- Cartography
Educational Background
- BA: Anthropology & History, State University of New York, New York, 1996.
- MS: Archaeology, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan, 1998.
Research Activities
- Identifying Roman Roads in Ancient British Landscapes Using GIS: 2004
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