Presented by A Workshop for Developing Advanced

The National Center GPS, GIS and Geophysical Skills

for Preservation Technology
Through Plantation Archeology
and Training

June 18-30 2007

Natchitoches, Louisiana

O
ur ability to locate buried features without digging has grown steadily, but so has the technological
learning curve. This workshop will bring you up to date on GIS, GPS, and geophysical prospection skills
(radar, thermal imaging, gradiometry, and conductivity/resistivity). You will learn how to effectively use these
technologies to accomplish your goals in the field and office. Expert instructors will guide you in an intensive
learning experience that integrates concepts, data collection, and analysis, all within the context of a grant-driven
research project in plantation archeology. Learn by doing!

GPS, GIS, and Geophysics Workshop (Trimble

399
Each Course On

$
ly
Products and ArcGIS 9.2) • June 18-23, 2007
Ground Truthing Workshop • June 25-30, 2007

For further details and convenient registration, visit our website:

www.ncptt.nps.gov
or contact David W. Morgan at (318) 356-7444, david_morgan@nps.gov

Beginning at the modern labs and facilities of the National Center, your learning experience
will be enhanced by use of the discipline’s latest technology and equipment. You will refine
your skills by collecting and interpreting data from the enigmatic and intriguing Whittington
site (16NA241), the c. 1786-1820 plantation of Marie-Thérèse Coincoin, a free woman of
African descent considered the matriarch of Louisiana’s Cane River Creoles.

Expert Instructors

Steven L. De Vore (M.A. Iowa State) Deidre McCarthy (M.A. Delaware)

is an archeologist with the National works at the National Park Service’s
Park Service’s Midwest Archeological Cultural Resources GIS Facility.
Center.

Tommy I. Hailey (Ph.D. Texas Kevin C. MacDonald (Ph.D.

A&M) is an assistant professor at Cambridge) is Senior Lecturer in
Northwestern State University of African Archeology at University
Louisiana. College London.

Bryan S. Haley (M.A. University of David W. Morgan (Ph.D. Tulane) is

Mississippi) is the coordinator of re- Chief of Archeology and Collections
mote sensing research at UM’s Center at NCPTT.
for Archaeological Research.
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An Integrative Framework: Advanced Moving the Earth: Ground Truthing and
Natchitoches, Louisiana, 71457
GPS/GIS Skills. At the outset, participants Hypothesis Testing. In the second week
learn advanced GPS concepts and gather data participants and instructors join Morgan and Official Business
at the Whittington site using Trimble Pathfinder as they direct an international archeological Penalty for Private Use, $300
Pro XH and Geoexplorer GeoXT instruments. team at the plantation. The U.S. N.E.H. and the
Participants then learn how to fuse together U.K. AHRC are funding research on creolization
GPS and geophysical data and the African Diaspora
into a powerful interpre- experience. The overlap
tive tool using the latest of the workshop with a
version of ArcGIS (9.2). robust set of genealogi-
This is hands-on learning cal, excavation, archival,
at its best! and ethnographic data
provides an unparalleled
Scanning the Land: educational opportunity.
Skills Training in GPR, Participants and instruc-
Gradiometry, and tors swap computers for
Other Geophysical trowels in order to better
Techniques. Armed learn what below the
with GPS data and a GIS ground has structured the
database, De Vore, Haley, electronic data gathered
and Hailey introduce geo- the previous week.
physical prospection and
the Powered Parachute as Distance Learning:
unique ways of surveying Online Reports Once
the land. Participants col- You’re Home. After-
lect radar, gradiometric, wards, NCPTT will post
conductivity, and other excavation and remote
data, which they process sensing data on the
daily and georeference using GIS. Students use Internet. Excavation by the archeological team
these data, along with thermal and aerial data, will continue for an additional three weeks, and
to pose hypotheses about the layout of struc- the results—and how they match the geophys-
tures and features at the site. NCPTT challenges ics—will be posted online, so participants can
traditional pedagogy by making the participants continue their learning experience. Go to our
active, engaged research partners! website to see last year’s results.
For further details and convenient registration, visit our website:
www.ncptt.nps.gov
or contact David W. Morgan at (318) 356-7444, david_morgan@nps.gov