The IGERT-TEECH Field Site in the Middle East allows students to work at a range of archaeological sites in Faynan, southern Jordan’s ancient mining and metallurgy center. The sites span the Neolithic to Islamic periods. Beginning in Fall 2011, IGERT Trainees learn techniques of “dirt” as well as state-of-the-art cyber-archaeology, with support from the UCSD CISA3 Jordan Cyber-archaeology Lab in Shobak, near the Faynan dig site. It is a year-round research and training facility for UCSD graduate students and foreign scholars as well as Jordanian archaeologists interested in digital archaeology tools. The Cyber-archaeology Lab will be a home base for IGERT-TEECH Trainees in Jordan, where they will learn how to analyze and create computer models of artifacts that they have dug up at nearby excavation sites. Trainees also interact with local teams of researchers and technicians involved in analyzing historic artifacts. Students are also trained on field cyberinfrastructure to support a variety of types of data ranging from field notes (text) to 3D scans and remote sensing data. Trainees can also interact with students and faculty from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Weizmann Institute of Science.



May 20, 2014
Tut's Tomb: A Replica Fit for a King

May 20, 2014
Tut's Tomb: A Replica Fit for a King

Dec 13, 2013
Qualcomm Institute Joins World Cultural Leaders at Digital Heritage International Congress

Nov 06, 2013
Final Printed Version of ArchaeoSTOR Research Article

May 13, 2013
Undergraduates to Study Cultural Heritage During Summer Internships

May 10, 2013
CISA3 and IGERT Grad Students Present at 2013 Theoretical Archaeology Group



Mar 13, 2013
IGERT Trainees Demo Technologies for CENIC Annual Meeting

Feb 1, 2013
CISA3's Levy Addresses the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Mar 13, 2012
PRI The World: Finding Da Vinci’s Lost Art

Mar 1, 2012
NGS-UCSD: Engineers for Exploration Overview Video

Dec 7, 2010
Cyber-Archaeology Solutions to the Data Avalanche and World Cultural Heritage



Nov 6, 2013

"ArchaeoSTOR: A Data Curation System for Research on the Archaeological Frontier," Gidding A, Matsui Y, Levy TE, DeFanti T, and Kuester F.

Mar 1, 2013

"The 2012 Petra Cyber-Archaeology Cultural Conservation Expedition: Temple of the Winged Lions and environs, Jordan," T. Levy, C. Tuttle, M. Vincent, M. Howland, A. Richter, V. Petrovic, D. Vanoni

Feb 13, 2013

"Archaeological Remote Sensing in Jordan's Faynan Copper Mining District with Hyperspectral Imagery," Savage SH, Levy TE, and Jones IWN

Feb 12, 2013

"The 2012 Petra Cyber-Archaeology Cultural Conservation Expedition: Temple of the Winged Lions and Environs, Jordan," Thomas E. Levy, Christopher A. Tuttle, Matthew L. Vincent, Matthew Howland, Ashley M. Richter, Vid Petrovic and David Vanoni