Second Life as an Archaeological Tool at UC Berkeley

2013 UGRR Conference, Session 4 "Digging for Freedom"

2013 UGRR Conference, Session 4 "Digging for Freedom"

2013 UGRR Conference, Session 4 "Digging for Freedom"

2013 UGRR Conference, Session 4 "Digging for Freedom"

A narrated slideshow which provides a brief overview of the archeological studies being done at Fort Union.

A video detailing the importance of the artifacts in Fort Union's Museum Collection in understanding the fur trade story. Several artifacts are examined, the vault is discussed, and there is a bit of re-enactment preformed.

Dr. Diana Greenlee, adjunct assistant professor at the University of Louisiana at Monroe and station archaeologist at the Poverty Point National Monument, discusses dendrogeomorphology to investigate earthwork stability at Poverty Point.

Various aspects of digital survey methods in archaeology are discussed by Graeme Earl of the University of South Hampton.

Ruth Tringum discusses the Second Life program, a virtual archaeological tool used at UC Berkley.

Join the National Park Service’s 19th Annual Geophysics and the Technology of Archeology workshop at Los Adaes. Non-destructive techniques to locate archeological features are discussed.