We are Christine Nestleroth, Sam Schwartz, and Lauren King, Undergraduate Research Assistants in the Material Sciences Lab of the Anthropology Department at Southern Methodist University, working under Ph.D. Candidate Rachel Burger and Dr. Sunday Eiselt. This semester we will undertake a digital heritage preservation project, utilizing prehistoric vessels from Texas as part of a larger digital heritage preservation initiative. Funding is graciously provided by the Marr Undergraduate Research Scholarship through the Institute for the Study of Earth and Man.
The purpose of this project is to preserve vessels in the SMU collections as 3D representations that can be employed in a variety of analyses subsequent to repatriation, make data publicly available for the benefit of the community and use in future research, and to explore the capacity of 3D scanning to inform upon a quantitative analysis of variation in ceramic shape and form.
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