Sarah Whitcher Kansa's Online CV

Education

2000, University of Edinburgh, Ph.D., Near East and East Mediterranean Archaeology

1993, University of California at San Diego, BA, Anthropological Archaeology

Experience

2007 - present, Executive Director, The Alexandria Archive Institute

1996 - present, Project Zooarchaeologist, Domuztepe Excavations, Turkey

2001 - 2007, Assistant Director, The Alexandria Archive Institute

2002 - 2003, Project Osteologist, URS Corporation, Oakland, CA

2000 - 2001, Research Assistant, Harvard University, Peabody Museum, Zooarchaeology Lab

Current Projects

Development of methods for the online preservation and dissemination of archaeological content

Adapting web tools for cost-effective sharing and reuse of cultural heritage data

Publication of edited volume “Archaeology 2.0 and Beyond: New Tools for Collaboration and Communication” (co-edited with Eric C. Kansa and Ethan Watrall

Integrated publication of 1995-2000 excavations at Domuztepe, Turkey

Investigating social and economic roles of animals in early complex societies in the Near East

Memberships and Service

American Schools of Oriental Research (Member of the Committee for Archaeological Research and Policy, Class of 2012)

Society for American Archaeology

iCommons: Local Context, Global Commons project (Ford Foundation supported)

International Council for Archaeozoology (Executive Committee, ex-officio member; International Committee, 2010 – 2014 term)

Editor of BoneCommons (ICAZ community forum) & ICAZ web site mananger

Publications

In Review:

Kansa, Sarah Whitcher, Eric C. Kansa and Ethan Watrall (eds.) Archaeology 2.0 and Beyond: New Tools for Collaboration and Communication. Submitted to Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press (In review, Oct 2009).

In preparation:

Kansa, Sarah Whitcher. Animal Exploitation at Domuztepe. In S. Campbell and E. Carter (eds) Prehistoric Domuztepe (Volume 1). Monumenta Archaeologica. Cotsen Archaeological Insitute, UCLA: Los Angeles.

Kansa, Sarah Whitcher. Mammal Remains from the Domuztepe “Death Pit”. In S. Campbell and E. Carter (eds) Prehistoric Domuztepe (Volume 1). Monumenta Archaeologica. Cotsen Archaeological Insitute, UCLA: Los Angeles.

Kansa, Sarah Whitcher. Animal Bones from the Great Temple at Petra. In Martha Sharpe Joukowsky (ed) Petra: Great Temple Brown University Excavations 1993-2006, Vol. III, Architecture and Material Culture .

Published:

Kansa, Eric C. and Sarah Whitcher Kansa. In press “Mashable” heritage: formats, licenses and the allure of openness. Heritage in the Digital Era. London: Multi-Science Publishers, pp 105-112.

Buckley, Mike, S. Whitcher Kansa, S. Howard and S. Campbell (2010) Distinguishing archaeological sheep from goat bones using a single collagen biomarker. Journal of Archaeological Science 37(1): 13-20. Download a pdf of the paper and the supplement

Kansa, Sarah Whitcher, Amanda Kennedy, Stuart Campbell and Elizabeth Carter (2009) Resource Exploitation at Late Neolithic Domuztepe: Faunal and Botanical Evidence. Current Anthropology 50(6): 897-914. Download a pdf

Kansa, Sarah Whitcher, Suellen Gauld, Stuart Campbell and Elizabeth Carter (2009) Whose Bones are those? Preliminary Comparative Analysis of Fragmented Human and Animal Bones in the "Death Pit" at Domuztepe, a Late Neolithic Settlement in Southeastern Turkey. Anthropozoologica 44(1): 159-172. Download a pdf

Kansa, Sarah Whitcher and Eric C. Kansa (2009) Yes, it is all about you: User needs, archaeology and digital data. CSA Newsletter. Vol. XXII, No. 1 (April 2009). Bryn Mawr: Center for the Study of Architecture. http://csanet.org/newsletter/spring09/nls0902.html

Kansa, Eric C and Sarah Whitcher Kansa (2009) Open Context: Developing Common Solutions for Data Sharing. CSA Newsletter. Vol. XXI, No. 3 (January 2009). Bryn Mawr: Center for the Study of Architecture. http://csanet.org/newsletter/winter09/nlw0902.html

Kansa, Sarah Whitcher and Eric C Kansa (2007) Open Content in Open Context. Educational Technology Magazine. Vol. XLVII. (Nov-Dec 2007): 26-31. Download a pdf

Kansa, Sarah Whitcher, Eric C Kansa and Jason M Schultz (2007) An Open Context for Near Eastern Archaeology. Near Eastern Archaeology 70(4): 187-193. Download a pdf

Kansa, E., and S. Whitcher Kansa (2007) Open Context: Collaborative Data Publication to Bridge Field Research and Museum Collections, in International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meeting (ICHIM07): Proceedings, J. Trant and D. Bearman (eds). Toronto: Archives & Museum Informatics. 2007. Published September 30, 2007 at http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/papers/kansa/kansa.html.

Kansa, E., S.W. Kansa, and T.E. Levy (2006) Eat Like an Egyptian?- A Contextual Approach to an Early Bronze I "Egyptian Colony" in the Southern Levant. In Integrating Zooarchaeology (ed. Mark Maltby). Oxford: Oxbow Books: 76-91. Download a pdf

Kansa, S.W. (2004) Animal Exploitation at Early Bronze I Afridar: What the Bones Tell Us (Initial analysis of the Animal Bones from Areas E, F and G). ‘Atiqot 45: 279-297.

Kansa, S. Whitcher and S. Campbell (2004) Feasting with the Dead?- a ritual bone deposit at Domuztepe, south eastern Turkey (c.5550 cal BC). In Behaviour Behind Bones: The zooarchaeology of religion, ritual, status, and identity (eds. S.J. O'Day, W. Van Neer, and A. Ervynck). Oxford: Oxbow Books: 2-13.

Whitcher, S.E., R.H. Meadow, and J. Janetski (2000) Animal Bones from Wadi Mataha (Petra Basin, Jordan): The Initial Analysis. In Archaeology of the Near East IV: Proceedings of the fourth international symposium on the archaeozoology of southwestern Asia and adjacent areas (ed. H. Buitenhuis). Groningen: ARC Publicate. 39-48.

Campbell, S., E. Carter, E. Healey, S. Anderson, A. Kennedy, and S. Whitcher (1999) Emerging complexity on the Kahramanmaraş plain; The Domuztepe Project 1995-1997. American Journal of Archaeology 103(3): 395-418.

Whitcher, S.E., C. Grigson, and T.E. Levy (1998) Recent Faunal Analyses at Shiqmim, Israel: A Preliminary Analysis on the 1993 Assemblage. In Archaeology of the Near East III: Proceedings of the third international symposium on the archaeozoology of southwestern Asia and adjacent areas (eds. H. Buitenhuis, L. Bartosiewicz, and A.M. Choyke). Groningen: ARC Publication 18: 103-116.