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Dr. Emily Beahm, the Arkansas Archeological Survey’s archeologist at the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute Research Station, will present “Recent Forays into Three-Dimensional Imaging of Archeological Resources in Arkansas” at the next meeting of the Ouachita Chapter of the Arkansas Archeological Society. This talk will be held on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022, at 7 p.m. in the board room at Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts, 200 Whittington Ave., Hot Springs. The event is free and open to the public.
Changing technology in the realm of 3-D imaging has allowed for new ways to record archeological information. Over the past year, the Arkansas Archeological Survey’s Dr. Beahm has been using several times of new technology for documentation of various types of archeological sites. These methods include photogrammetry, lidar, and drone photography. In this talk, Dr. Beahm will demonstrate the utility of this type of documentation by discussing some examples of her recent efforts in Arkansas.
Dr. Emily Beahm is the Station Archeologist at the Arkansas Archeological Survey’s Winthrop Rockefeller Institute (WRI) Research Station in Morrillton. She is a native of Tennessee and she earned her PhD from the University of Georgia. At her station on beautiful Petit Jean Mountain, she cultivates the WRI Teaching Garden, hosts the Project Dig program for 5th and 6th graders, documents rock art sites using a variety of methods including photogrammetry and lidar, and carries out other research projects. Recently she has been working on a National Science Foundation-funded project researching ways to make archeological field schools safer and more inclusive for undergraduate students.