Christopher Dostal

- Contact
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- dostalc@tamu.edu
- Anthropology 102
- Professional Links
- Degree
- PhD, Texas A&M University, 2017
- Program
- Nautical Archaeology
Specialty:
Historical-period maritime archaeology in North America and Western Europe, the conservation and long-term preservation of waterlogged archaeological artifacts, in situ preservation and documentation techniques for underwater archaeological sites, X-ray fluorescence elemental analysis of archaeological artifacts, digital imaging and 3D modeling of archaeological artifacts, and public outreach.
Courses Taught:
ANTH 689 – Analytical Methods in Archaeology and Conservation
ANTH 617 – Conservation of Archaeological Materials III
Current Graduate Students:
Eden Boric, Jonathan Henneberry, Benjamin Ioset, Ryan Theis, Claire Zak, Megan Crutcher
Selected and Recent Publications:
2018 Photogrammetric Texture Mapping: A Method for Increasing the Fidelity of 3D Models of Cultural Heritage Materials, with Kotaro Yamafune. (Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 18C pp. 430-436)
2017 Recording, Publishing, and Reconstructing Wooden Shipwrecks, with Castro, F, Bendig, C, Berube, M, Budsberg, N, Monteiro, A, Smith, C, Torres, R, and Yamafune, K. (Journal of Maritime Archaeology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11457-017-9185-8 )