Interested in SAROI? Check out the schedule from the 2021 SAROI workshop on data acquisition and analysis to get a better sense of what the residential-portion of your schedule might look like: 2021 SAROI First Workshop Schedule
Note that some of the topics, and their organization, will change for the second cohort’s workshop.
Stable isotopic analysis is typically used in archaeology to describe past movement and/or the diet of people and animals. Much of these research results are left at the descriptive level, while their spatial component–their isotopic space–not fully explored, despite such research being fundamentally rooted in various places. One of our 2021-2022 SAROI Fellows, Josh Robinson, recently reviewed the use of spatial statistics for stable isotope analysis, and the user-friendly rKIN package, in the Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-021-09541-7. Josh also recently explored spatial and temporal trends in Late Pleistocene Eastern Africa using stable isotopes, to understand the mechanisms through which human populations exchanged genes, ideas, and behaviors, in the journal Historical Biology: https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2021.1942465. We look forward to seeing what’s next from Josh with respect to spatial modeling!
We are thrilled to announce our first SAROI Fellow cohort! The 2021-2022 SAROI Fellows hail from all parts of the United States and represent a range of colleges and institutions, early career stages, areas of research foci, and spatial archaeological applications; however, they are united in their passion for the humanistic social sciences and their mutual commitment to diversity and inclusivity within the spatial humanities. They are: Wolfgang Alders, University of California Berkeley; Brandi Bethke, Oklahoma Archaeological Survey; Kaitlyn Davis, University of Colorado Boulder and United States Forest Service; Graham Goodwin, University of California Merced; Kristin Landau, Alma College; Brandi L. MacDonald, Missouri University Research Reactor and University of Missouri Columbia; Joshua Robinson, Boston University; and Camille Westmont, University of the South.
Learn more about our 2021-2022 Fellows here.
