Faculty of Humanities
J. Waagen
drs. J. (Jitte) Waagen
Capaciteitsgroep Archeologie University of Amsterdam


Turfdraagsterpad 9
1012 XT Amsterdam
Room: 3.03

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0205258776
0205255830

http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/j.waagen/
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Computational Archaeology Specialist

Employed at the Amsterdam Archaeological Centre since 2007 as specialist in Computational Archaeology to provide and support digital means and methods of recording, analyses and presentation within archaeology.

Educated at the Free University of Amsterdam in Mediterranean Archaeology (research variant), specialized in the archaeology of pre-Roman Puglia, Italy. Worked for several companies and institutes in The Netherlands and Italy, specializing in computational and digital archaeology.

Secretary of the Dutch and Flemish Chapter of the Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology organisation (CAA-NL-FL).

Main AAC projects:

The NPAP project, development of multi-user databases and webGIS applications.
Learning Sites, communication and data exchange tools for archaeological fieldwork and education.
Survey Archaeology website, free open source software, open course ware and open knowledge base for education and research.

Courses

Responsible for teaching:
Computational Archaeology and Information Systems, 2nd year obligatory course
Digital Archaeological Analyses, 3rd year optional course

Fields of interest

Landscape archaeology, geoarchaeology, computational archaeology, digital archaeology, statistics, social archaeology.


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Past and present projects

Muro Tenente (large scale excavations,1997-2000, trench leader, 2001, field technician, 2002, research);
San Pancrazio (small scale excavations, 1999, trench leader); both led by prof. dr. D. Yntema and dr. G.-J. Burgers

The L’Amastuola Project (archaeological survey and spatial analyses of the necropoleis, 2005/2006); collaboration with the Archaeological Institute of the Free University of Amsterdam, in 2006 with a fund from the Dutch Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO); led by dr. G.-J. Burgers and dr. J.P. Crielaard.

The Sacred Landscapes Project (archaeological surveys, landscape reconstruction and spatial analyses, 2004-2008, organisation); collaboration with drs. Jeremia Pelgrom (RUL, VU) and drs. Tesse Stek (UvA, RUN).

The Nemrud Dag Project (Site Information System, 2005-2008, GIS-specialist); collaboration with the Amsterdam Archaeological Center,UvA, led by prof. dr. Herman Brijder.

San Pancrazio - Li Castelli (projectleader, GIS-specialist) for the FirmA.Conti VivaiPiante S.r.l. (Rome) under supervision of dr. G.-J. Burgers of the Royal Dutch Institute at Rome.

Present fieldwork related to the NPAP project: Satricum (Italy, led by dr. M. Gnade), Halos and Zakynthos (Greece, led respectively by prof. dr. R. Reinders/prof. dr. V.V. Stissi and dr. G.-J. van Wijngaarden)

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Publications/lectures

  • Waagen, J., Het grafritueel in Muro Tenente. Een analyse van sociale structuur., in: Tijdschrift voor de Mediterrane Archeologie 33, 2005.
  • Burgers, G.-J., Waagen, J.,Excavations at I Castiedd’ di San Pancrazio Salentino, Southern Italy in: BaBesch volume 85, 2010.
  • Waagen, J., Le sepolture di Muro Tenente: alcune rifflesioni ed interpretazioni, in: Burgers, G.-J. (ed.), L'insediamento Messapico di Muro Tenente, Scavi e Ricerche 1998-2009 , 2010.
  • Tetteroo, C., Waagen, J., Le sepoltore di Muro Tenente 1993-2002, in: Burgers, G.-J. (ed.), L'insediamento Messapico di Muro Tenente, Scavi e Ricerche 1998-2009, 2010.
  • Waagen, J., La necropoli arcaica de L’Amastuola, in: Burgers, G.-J., Crielaard, J.P. (eds.),  Greci e indigeni a L'Amastuola, 2011.
  • Waagen, J ., Digital Modeling and Data Processing, in: Pelgrom, J., Stek, T.D. (eds), Landscape of the Sacred: intensive fieldsurvey around the cult place of S. Giovanni in Galdo, Colle Rimontato, JAT, 2011, in druk.
  • Waagen, J., The Site Information System, in: Brijder, H. (ed.), GODS and KINGS in Stone – Recent research and conservation activities on the Nemrud Daği, in voorbereiding.
  • Waagen, J., Evaluation Background Noise, in voorbereiding.
  • Analyse van de necropolen in de antieke nederzetting Muro Tenente, Apulië, lezing op het Koninklijk Nederlands Instituut te Rome, 20.03.2005.
  • La ricerca delle necropoli di Muro Tenente , op de archeologische thema-avond ‘Muro Tenente dalla ricerca alla fruzione’, in Mesagne, Zuid-Italië, 28.07.2005.
  • Mobile GIS for archaeological fieldwork, gastcollege in het kader van de (bachelor) cursus GIS van het aardwetenschappelijk instituut van de Vrije Universiteit te Amsterdam, 30.09.2005.
  • GIS e il Sacred Landscapes Project, op de archeologische conferentie ‘San Giovanni in Galdo eil Sacred Landscapes Project’, in San Giovanni inGaldo, Molise, 20.08.2007.
  • The Analyses of Low Densities, op de surveymeeting 2008, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 21.11.2008.
  • Methodologie van het grafveldonderzoek, gastcollege in het kader van de (master) collegereeks werkcollege archeologie zuid-Italie, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 2009.
  • Archeologie en GIS , gastcollege in het kader van de (bachelor) cursus geschiedenis, methoden en praktijk van de archeologie en veldwerk, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, 2009.
  • Learning Sites - Communication and data exchange tools for archaeological fieldwork and education , op het symposium ter afscheid van Evert Verkuijlen, 2010, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Nederland, 30.09.2010.
  • Learning Sites - Communication and data exchange tools for archaeological fieldwork and education, op de surveymeeting 2010, Universiteit van Gent, België, 14.11.2010.
  • Learning Sites - Mobiele technieken voor het verbeteren van onderwijs in de context van archeologischveldwerk, op het UvA symposium 'Studiesucces', Universiteit van Amsterdam, Nederland, 20.01.2011.


Digital Landscapes

Survey Archaeology

Jeremia Pelgrom

Tesse Stek