ARCHEO-IMAGING LAB: SERVICE


The Archeo-Imaging Lab offers a variety of services to the University, the surrounding community and state, and to national programs of archeological instruction. The lab consults and assists with teaching and research activities in other departments and institutions associated with the University of Arkansas. Educational outreach is achieved through use of lab facilities in booths and shows at University-sponsored events, during archeological events and fieldwork, and through participation in national workshops in archeological remote sensing.

COLLABORATION IN ACTIVITIES WITH OTHER DEPARTMENTS AND INSTITUTIONS OF THE UNIVERSITY

The Archeo-Imaging Lab regularly collaborates with the Arkansas Archeological Survey (AAS) in a variety of research and data collection projects throughout the state. The AAS possesses a full suite of geophysical survey equipment and extensive software for data processing, and includes trained personnel on their staff. These collaborations annually yield high quality geophysical results over large areas of culturally significant state and private properties.

RECENT PROJECTS CONDUCTED IN ARKANSAS
Wallace Field, Dalton/Early Archaic site, Pruitt
Toltec Mounds Archeological State Park
Wallace Bottom/Arkansas Post early French/Native settlement
Bozeman historic cemetery, Arkadelphia
Grandview prehistoric Caddoan settlement complex
Prairie Grove Battlefield State Park, Prairie Grove
Mount Comfort historic church and cemetery, Fayetteville

The lab also contributes to teaching and research in other departments and programs, for example Geosciences and Environmental Dynamics, and associates with projects in the Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies (CAST). See the Archeo-Imaging Lab-CAST joint project results at Army City, Kansas!

EDUCATIONAL BOOTHS & SHOWS

The Archeo-Imaging Lab participates in University sponsored events, like Springfest, and in Arkansas Archeology Week. These events expose the Lab to the public, frequently with actual demonstrations of data collection, and serve to educate young people in the exciting possibilities offered by archeological remote sensing. Additional demonstrations are also given to site visitors during fieldwork.

PARTICIPATION IN NATIONAL WORKSHOPS

Professor Kvamme and the Archeo-Imaging Lab frequently participate in, and have hosted, national-level training workshops in archaeological remote sensing. Recent or up-coming workshops include:

Recent Archeological Prospection Advances for Non-destructive Investigations in the 21st Century (NPS Training Workshop) Cahokia Mounds State Park, IL
May 13-17, 2003
Science Saturdays in the Discovery Room: "Can You See Beneath the Soil?" University of Arkansas Museum February 1, 2003, 11 am & 1 pm
Remote Sensing Workshop Southeast Archaeological Conference (SEAC), Biloxi, MS

Nov. 6,
2002

New Developments in Digital Landscape Analysis Groningen Institute of Archaeology, University of Groningen, Netherlands
May 31, 2002
Recent Archeological Prospection Advances for Non-destructive Investigations in the 21st Century (NPS Training Workshop) Fort Vancouver National Historic Site, Vancouver, WA
May 13-17, 2002
Interpreting Archeological Ground Penetrating Radar Data: A Users Work Shop University of Georgia, Athens, GA
March 7-9, 2002
Interpreting Archeological Ground Penetrating Radar Data: A Users Work Shop University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR
November 13-15, 2001
Non-Destructive Mound and Earthwork Research in the 21st Century (NPS Training Workshop) Hopewell Culture National Historic Park, Chillicothe, OH
May 14-18, 2001

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Archeo-Imaging Lab
Attn: Professor Kenneth L. Kvamme
Department of Anthropology, Main 330
University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, AR 72701 U.S.A.
(479)575-4130
kkvamme@uark.edu