How to Become a Digital Archaeologist | CAA Australasia Panel Discussion | 29 September 2022

Dr Aleks Michalewicz led this online panel discussion with three early career digital archaeologists from Australia and New Zealand, whose career paths span the consultant sector, academia, and museums. The discussion ranged from what digital archaeology means to them, how they became digital archaeologists, and the different careers digital archaeology can lead to.

An open Q&A followed the recorded sections of the talk.

Panellists
Benjamin Jones is a New Zealand-based doctoral candidate at the University of Auckland and a consultant archaeologist. His PhD research focuses on understanding how future erosion as a result of sea-level rise will impact coastal archaeological sites at the local, regional, and national scale. Ben's research and consultant work uses digital techniques including GIS-based approaches, digitisation of maps, the analysis of LiDAR imagery, and using machine learning algorithms for the detection of archaeological features.

Dr Rebecca Jones is a Technical Officer Digitisation, First Nations Archaeology at the Australian Museum. Rebecca is currently digitising the First Nations archaeology collection at the Australian Museum. Prior to this role Rebecca taught archaeological science at the Australian National University, where she received her Masters and PhD. She has extensive fieldwork experience throughout Australia and Southeast Asia. Her PhD research analysed the transition from hunter-gathering to domestication of animals in northern Vietnam.

Dr Alina Kozlovski is the Lecturer of Digital Innovation (Ancient History and Archaeology) at the University of New England. Prior to this role, she worked in museums in the US, UK, and Australia, including collaborative work involving digital visualisation of artefacts in display contexts. She completed her PhD at the University of Cambridge and has held postdoctoral fellowships at the British School at Rome and at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney. Her research focuses on concepts and histories of curation, starting from ancient Greece and Rome to the contemporary world, and on the role of copies, both material and digital, in museum collections.

Moderator
Dr Aleksandra Michalewicz is employed as a Research Data Specialist at the Melbourne Data Analytics Platform. She holds an MA in Classics and a PhD in Archaeology, and since 2015 she has been an Honorary Fellow at the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies. Her research concentrates on the Hellenistic, Roman and Late Antique periods in the South Caucasus. She has excavated in Georgia since 2008 with Georgian-Australian Investigations in Archaeology, the Landscape Archaeology in Georgia research group and for the Mtskheta Institute of Archaeology.


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