The 84^th Annual Society for American Archaeology meeting is just around the corner, and Digital Antiquity staff look forward to participating in a variety of symposiums, forums, and other events throughout the week of April 10-14, 2019 in Albuquerque, New Mexico! Digital Antiquity highlights will include a symposium honoring the illustrious career of Keith Kintigh (4/12), a workshop geared towards helping SAA members utilize tDAR’s digital data curation services (4/13), and many other exciting happenings listed below.  

Digital Antiquity staff will also be on hand at Exhibit Hall booth #505 throughout the week, so be sure to stop by with any tDAR or digital curation related questions, learn more about the SAA/Center for Digital Antiquity Good Digital Curation Agreement, enroll in our raffles to win some great prizes, or just stop by to say hi!

Follow us on Twitter @DigArcRec  and Instagram at digitalantiquity for up-to-the-minute tDAR news throughout the conference!

• Thursday, April 11, 2019
  • Digital Antiquity Booth
    • Room: Exhibit Hall in Hall 4 (ACC)
    • Booth #: 505
    • Time: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
  • Symposium: [34] Zooarchaeology and Technology: Case Studies and Applications
    • Room: 140 Aztec
    • Time: 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM
    • Highlight: 8:15 AM “Mapping Faunal Data to tDAR Ontologies to Address Data Comparability and Archaic Period Use of Animals in the Interior Eastern United States” —Bonnie Styles, Mona Colburn and Sarah Neusius
  • Electronic Symposium: [134] Towards a Standardization of Photogrammetric Methods in Archaeology: A Conversation About ‘Best Practices’ in an Emerging Methodology
    • Room: 10 Anasazi
    • Time: 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
    • Highlight: Digital Curation of Photogrammetric Data —Rachel Fernandez

• Friday, April 12, 2019
  • Digital Antiquity Booth
    • Room: Exhibit Hall in Hall 4 (ACC)
    • Booth #: 505
    • Time: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
  • Symposium: [188] Attention to Detail: A Pragmatic Career of Research, Mentoring, and Service, Papers In Honor of Keith Kintigh
    • Room: 275 Ballroom B
    • Time: 8:00 AM – 11:00 AM
    • Highlight: 10:15 AM “Promoting an Archaeological Perspective in Repatriation, Consultation, National Monuments, and Data Science —Francis McManamon
  • Forum: [225] From “Saving the Past for the Future” to “Saving the Future with the Past”: Building Arguments for Contemporary Relevance
    • Room: 220 Ruidoso
    • Time: 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
    • Highlight: Keith Kintigh and Jeffrey Altschul, Moderators
  • Symposium: [237] Beyond Collections: Federal Archaeology and “New Discoveries” Under NAGPRA
    • Room: 130 Cimarron
    • Time: 1:00 PM – 3:30 PM
    • Highlight: 3:00 PM Discussant —Francis McManamon
  • Symposium: [256] I Love Sherds and Parasites: A Festschrift in Honor of Pat Urban and Ed Schortman
    • Room: 280 Ballroom A
    • Time: 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM
    • Highlight: 2:15 PM “Lessons That Can’t Be Taught: Applying Anthropology in Honduras and Beyond” —Claire Novotny, Anna Novotny and Leigh Anne Ellison

• Saturday, April 13, 2019
  • Digital Antiquity Booth
    • Room: Exhibit Hall in Hall 4 (ACC)
    • Booth #: 505
    • Time: 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM
  • Workshop: Using tDAR: A Workshop for SAA Members Benefiting from the SAA–Center for Digital Antiquity Good Digital Curation Agreement
    • Room: Enchantment C-D, Foyer
    • Time: 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM
    • Workshop Leaders: Leigh Anne Ellison and Rachel Fernandez

We hope to see you all there!