NCPTT and the Presidio Trust will present “Prospection in Depth 2009,” a workshop on geophysical prospection on August 4-8.
NCPTT and the Presidio Trust will present “Prospection in Depth 2009,” a workshop on geophysical prospection on August 4-8.
The grant allowed for documentation of traditional language, foods, music and the cultural landscapes associated with the Timbisha Shoshone people in their aboriginal territories.
This report outlines the efforts of the SHPO offices of New Mexico and Wyoming to implement a common cultural resource database design.
This project was designed to take data concerning historic districts within the state of Ohio in paper form and convert that information into digital data for inclusion into a GIS system.
Collecting and analyzing spatially defined data is a core component of archaeological research and has become increasingly effective with GPS, mapping and GIS hardware and software.
Geophysical techniques like radar, magnetometry, conductivity, and resistivity are fast becoming essential archeological skills.
The Presidio Trust and NCPTT have agreed to jointly promote NCPTT’s “Prospection in Depth 2008,” a workshop that focuses on cutting-edge applications of geographic information systems and geophysical technologies for identifying archeological sites and site features.
Andy Ferrell of NCPTT, Deidre McCarthy of NPS Cultural Resources GIS and Barrett Kennedy of the LSU School of Architecture presented “Emerging Survey Tools: Not the Same Old Cultural Resource Survey” at the 2007 National Trust for Historic Preservation Conference.
On October 4, NCPTT hosted one of the statewide activities celebrating Louisiana Archaeology Week.
NCPTT hosted Prospection in Depth, a GPS, GIS, and Geophysical technologies workshop held June 18-23, 2007.
NCPTT will present two workshops in June featuring high-level technology in the archeology field.
Sunrise on the Cane River
This website chronicles the interwoven archaeological training and research projects conducted during the summer of 2006 at the St. Anne (16NA529) and Whittington (16NA241) plantation sites in Louisiana.*
In June the NCPTT hosted “Prospection [...]
On Aug. 3, NCPTT hosted “Preservation in Your Community,” a public event held annually to showcase preservation research and activities being undertaken by local National Park Service organizations.
From June 6-23, 2006, NCPTT partnered with the NPS Midwest Archeology Center, the NPS Cultural Resources GIS laboratory, the University of Mississippi, and Northwestern State University of Louisiana to hold its first training program on non-destructive archeological prospection techniques. This intensive workshop is unique in that it uses data from an ongoing, mature grant-funded research [...]
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