Spatial Approaches in African Archaeology (PDF)

Dr. Cameron Gokee is an anthropological archaeologist who studies the interplay between community and landscape. Building on nearly two decades of collaborative research in francophone West Africa, Dr. Gokee currently directs the Bandafassi Regional Archaeological Project to map shifting relations of village life and ethnic identity in a "shatter zone" on the upper Gambia River over the past thousand years. Locally, he also co-directs two projects to explore the historical landscapes of Indigenous and Black communities in southern Appalachia-the Linville Gorge Archaeological Survey and the Junaluska Community Archaeology Project. Finally, Dr. Gokee collaborates with the Undocumented Migration Project to address structural violence against migrants moving across the US-Mexico borderlands.

Dr. Carla Klehm is Research Assistant Professor in the Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies at the University of Arkansas. She is an anthropological archaeologist working at the intersection of inequality, long-distance trade, and human-environmental relationships. Funded by NSF, NEH, NGS, and Wenner-Gren, among others, she directs international, multidisciplinary projects that span from the outskirts of the earliest polities in southern Africa and the riverine fortress networks of Bronze Age Europe to mortuary assemblages at some of East Africa's earliest megalithic monuments. Her projects have incorporated a range of geospatial techniques, including geophysics, UAV-based sensors, and predictive modeling using multispectral satellite imagery, derived from her long-standing relationship with CAST. Dr. Klehm also collaborates directly with local museums and communities and incorporates indigenous perspectives in the narratives she presents to both academic and popular audiences.