by Nikki Silva | Dec 16, 2016 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post, CHI Project Info
Project Description: My dissertation research focuses on Oneota populations living in Illinois. Artifacts attributed to the Oneota have been found primarily in Iowa, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. Because of the variety of Oneota sites and the different geographic areas...
by Nikki Silva | Nov 29, 2016 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post
Is the easy way always the best way? During the 1st semester of the fellowship, fellows are responsible for completing a series of tasks focused on certain topics such as project management, web mapping, and data visualization. As a returning fellow, I completed these...
by Nikki Silva | Oct 28, 2016 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post
Academia is changing. The old standard 500+ page, written dissertation may become obsolete as new technologies develop and academia starts accepting new models of the dissertation. One model is incorporating digital components (i.e. a map, database, appendices, or...
by Nikki Silva | Sep 29, 2016 | CHI Grad Fellow Post, CHI Project Info
Hi everyone! I’m Nikki Silva and I’m one of the returning CHI Fellows for the 2017/2018 fellowship. I’m a 5th year PhD Student in Anthropology and my research attempts to answer the question: How does culture contact/interaction between two groups of...
by Nikki Silva | Apr 22, 2016 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post, CHI Project Info
In the past few weeks Autumn and I allowed some of our friends and family, with varying levels of archaeological experience, to view the site to see if it is user friendly. With some of their constructive comments, we first added some language to the intro pop-up to...
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