Archeology & Collections

GPS Training at Prospection in Depth, an NPCTT training course.

Deidre McCarthy conducts a field exercise with NCPTT Summer Institute participants using Trimble Global Positioning System equipment. McCarthy was an instructor in the course “Prospection in Depth: Developing Advanced GPS, GIS and Geophysical Skills through Plantation Archeology.”

NCPTT’s Archeology and Collections Program seeks to foster and develop technological innovations and applications that enhance the preservation of archeological sites, landscapes, materials, and collections.

Eons of the human past are unknown but for the record people left in the ground and across the landscape. Industrial and technological developments of the last two centuries have threatened this record to an unparalleled degree. Even the process of doing archaeology takes its toll on the very resources from which we seek to learn about the past. Modern technological innovations have, however, given us the capability of protecting these finite materials and places in ways that once were unimaginable.