Christopher Dostal
- Contact
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- dostalc@tamu.edu
- Anthropology 102
- Professional Links
- Degree
- PhD, Texas A&M University, 2017
- Program
- Nautical Archaeology
- Pronouns
- He/His/Him
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 605 – Conservation of Archaeological Materials I
ANTH 606 – Conservation of Archaeological Materials II
ANTH 607 – Historical Archaeology
ANTH 617 – Conservation of Archaeological Materials III
ANTH 663 – Analytical Methods in Archaeology and Conservation
ANTH 689 – Analytical Methods in Archaeology and Conservation
Current Graduate Students:
Ryan Theis, Benjamin Ioset, Megan Crutcher, Olivia Thomas, Raul Palomino, Claire Zak, Chabli Bravo, Austin Seiss
Selected and Recent Publications:
2020 Integrating digital and conventional recording techniques for the documentation and reconstruction of an 18th-Century wooden ship from Alexandria, VA. With Glenn Grieco, Peter Fix, Carolyn Kennedy, Julia Herbst, Lauren Shultz, and Ricardo Borrero. (Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage, Vol. 16)
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 )