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of the assemblage, one of the few complete, excavated specimens of such tables, and of the materials, tool marks, assembly marks, monograms, and other evidence of the work of the craftsmen who made it. This poster follows a preliminary publi­cation focused on typological and liturgical issues, with a discussion of the crafts­manship involved in the making of the parts of the table and in its assembly as a product of a late sixth-, early seventh-century provincial industry.

A GIS-Based Explanatory Model for the Late Roman and Byzantine Periods in the Avkat Region, Turkey Angelina Phebus, James Newhard, and Norman Levine, College of Charleston

One of the ways in which GIS has been applied in archaeology has been in the use of predictive models, primarily within a cultural resource management (CRM) context. Employing predictive models within the CRM paradigm is often done to identify the probability of past human habitation within the landscape for the purpose of protecting and documenting archaeological evidence in a timely and cost-effective manner. Uses of predictive models have undergone some criti­cism, owing to their often environmentally deterministic underpinnings and their weakness in terms of explaining the modeled archaeological patterns.

The authors argue that one of the chief applications of GIS in archaeology lies not in predicting site locations but in its capacity to visualize settlement patterns based upon hypothetical socioeconomic structures and to serve as a means to evaluate those hypotheses against archaeological data. To this end, a dynamic and interactive explanatory model was developed to serve as a mechanism by which differing hypotheses regarding regional systems could be explored.

The model was developed based on current assumptions about the Av kat region derived from preexisting archaeological, textual, and environmental data. During summer 2009, these models were tested against data collected from intensive and extensive survey in the Avkat region and refined to best reflect the most plausible interpretation of the Avkat landscape. The results strengthen interpretations about settlement organization within the Late Roman and Byzantine periods and sug­gest a mechanism by which multiple hypotheses for a variety of periods can be proposed and evaluated.

Modeling Domestic Architecture at Late Minoan IIIC Vronda, Kavousi, Crete Kevin T. Glowacki and Sayed Kashif Dafedar, Texas A&M University

Excavations at the archaeological site of Kavousi Vronda in eastern Crete brought to light a small rural settlement dating to the LM mc period (12th-early 11th centuries B.C.). At the time of abandonment, the settlement consisted of 15-20 houses, a large building with storerooms that may have been the ruler 's dwelling, a communal temple, and a kiln. While abandonment and postabandonment pro­cesses have resulted in much disturbance, Vronda has provided a wea lth of data for understanding LM lITC domestic architecture, household ac th Itil''', .lnd socie ty at the end of the Bronz' Age. Thi., po ter pre en t a digit,II 11'1 ClI\"lnll tlon of th ' Vrond.l ., ·tt l 'mt'n t, b.l., 'd lIpon th . dat.l (hand drawn "1,,,, , . I I1n . • lIld l'it'v.,

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tions) recorded at the time of excavation and evaluates the potential contribution of various graphics software for modeling the vernacular architecture of LM mc Crete. AutoCAD tracings of the original data were imported into Autodesk 3ds \I1ax to render the topographic contours of the hill and extrude walls and features of individual buildings. Proposed reconstructions of no-longer-preserved details .,uch as roof construction, door lintels, and chimneys were added directly in 3ds \I1ax. Panoramic photos taken from the summit were mapped onto a cylinder to provide a photorealistic representation of the surrounding landscape. The project .,uggests several ways in which models of this type enhance archaeological research .md provide new insights into the built environment of an ancient community.

Excavations in the Nabataean Town and Roman Vicus at Hawara (Modern Humayma, Jordan), 2008 M. Barbara Reeves, Queen's University, Ian Babbitt, Queen's University, Katie Cum­Iller, Queen's University, Barbara Fisher, University of Victoria, and Brian Seymour, Royal British Columbia Museum

Hawara was the largest Nabataean and Roman period settlement in what is now the Hisma Desert of southern Jordan. After Trajan annexed the Nabataean kingdom in the early second century A.D., the Roman army built a SOO-person fort I In the edge of the desert settlement, damaging the Nabataean town in the process. In the following years, a new civilian settlement (a vicus) developed outside the Roman fort. In 2008, a new cycle of excavations was begun with the goal of investi­I-:elting the character and extent of Hawara's Nabataean and Roman period civilian l ommunities and, more specifically, to see how the nature of these communities , hanged over the three centuries in which Hawara was a garrisoned town. Results 110m the 2008 excavations to be discussed include Nabataean stone and mudbrick buildings, the Roman garrison's bathhouse, a possible military campus (training " round), and an enigmatic military or civic platform situated near the entrance to the town.

New Approaches to Archaeological Footwear: Roman Shoes from the Fort at Vlndolanda II ,Zllbeth M. Greene, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and Trudi Buck, )urham University

I he assemblage of leather shoes from the military fort at Vindolanda on Had­fl, ln '~ Wall in Britain is the largest known from anywhere in the Roman empire. It tlmprises around 4,000 shoes, all of which have been excavated from nine peri­

! I., of occupation on the site between A.D. 8S and the end of the third century. A 1 11 'hminary report was produced by C. van Driel-Murray (The Early Wooden Forts. \'tli III. Vindolanda Research Reports [Bardon Mill 1993]) covering a selection of ti ll' find~ from three excava ti on ~ea 'ons, but for the mo t part, this asse mblage is u"publi.,hed and unknown to tlw wider archaeological community. The a!-.!-.em­hi 1-:1' , .. vital for tlw ·,tlld\ ClI ICltltWI'c\r from th' I" .. !'.ictll world, el t(lPI~ mOil' oftl'n \I 1I""l'd wIth II 11'II'1l I' to I .iI IIlptllll' th,ll' till' elrdlell'llltll-:ll,IIII'lllni Ilw