CAA Joint Chapter Meeting 2024

It is our great pleasure to announce the 2024 Joint Chapter Meeting of CAA Netherlands/Flanders and CAA Germany which will be held in Groningen, The Netherlands, October 24th to 25th, 2024.

 

Timetable

  • Registration deadline: 20 October
  • Conference: 24-25 October
    • 24th of October:
      • 13.00 – 17.30: Presentations
      • 18.00 – end: optional dinner (not included in registration)
    • 25th of October:
      • 09.30 – 16.00: Presentations

Programme

The full programme can be found below. Abstracts for the papers can be found in the last section on this page.

Thursday 24 October

12:30 – 12:50 Registration

12:50 – 13:00 Welcome, introduction and practicalities

13:00 – 15:00 3D Technologies

  • Jitte Waagen – Virtual Past Places: VR for education, results of the SURF incentive scheme project at UvA
  • Costas Papadopoulos & Alicia Walsh – Revisiting Scholarly Publication: Evaluation and Peer Review of 3D Scholarship
  • Alexis Maldonado Ruiz – Digitisation and 3D Printing to improve accessibility of archaeological heritage for visually impaired people
  • Lutz Schubert – Modelling the Maya Landscape

15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break

15:30 – 17:30 Open Science & Networks

  • Ronald Visser – Developing the R package dendroNetwork for dendro-archaeology: lessons learned
  • Bjørn Peare Bartholdy – RchaeoStats: Open, online teaching materials for learning statistics with R
  • Dries Daems – Presenting NASSA: Network for Agent-Based Modelling of Socio-Ecological Systems in Archaeology
  • Erik Kroon – Beyond Pots, Potters, and Peoples: Using Network Analysis, Probability Theory and Ceramic Chaînes Opératoires to Shed New Light on the Corded Ware Transition

18:00 Social dinner*

Friday 25 October

09:00 – 09:30 Registration

09:30 – 11:00 Remote Sensing & Predictive Modeling

  • Agnes Schneider – From FAIR principles to FAIR practices in archaeological remote sensing: where are we?
  • Simon Seyfried – Computing in Agricultural Remote Sensing for Aerial Archaeology
  • Afke van Zijverden – Preserving Prehistory for the Future; Predictive modelling for protecting submerged and coastal Mesolithic sites.

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 – 13:00 Statistics & Databases

  • Roderick Geerts – From Pottery to Patterns. Correspondence Analysis of large Roman period datasets
  • Eduardo Herrera Malatesta – A Framework for Quantifying Uncertainties in Spatial Analysis
  • Mark R. Groenhuijzen – Constructing the limes site database: building a cross-boundary site database to study border systems

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break*

14:00 – 15:30 Artificial Intelligence

  • Karsten Lambers – Multimodal AI for the Analysis of Historical Maps
  • Lieven Verdonck – Interactive, machine-learning based semantic segmentation of geophysical data
  • Alex Brandsen – OpenAI vs. Open Source – Evaluating the Performance of Large Language Models on Extracting Radiocarbon Dates from Archaeology Papers

15:30 – 16:00 CAA-NL-FL Annual General Meeting, conclusions, and goodbye