SAS is dedicated to ensuring we can still educate our supporters in any way possible despite the challenges we’re all facing due to COVID-19. We are pleased to report that the March and April SAS Scholar Symposiums that was cancelled due to the COVID-19 are being rescheduled as on-line live-streamed webinars.
These webinars are FREE and open to all, but attendees must register in advance by contacting registration@sacarcheology.org.

Scholar Webinar
May 9, 2020
2:00 – 4:00 p.m.
“Ethnographic/ethno historical analysis of social identities of women in Sonoma County between 1900 and 1945”
by Bee Thao
2:00 p.m.

“Aidonia excavation in Nemea, Greece and artifact scanning”
by David Cook
~3:00 p.m.

Bee Thao
Bee is a master’s student at Sonoma State University. She has had several years of professional experience in cultural resource management with exposure to Asian American archaeological cultural materials and sites. In 2019 she conducted an ethnographic/ethno historical research project on how Chinese, Japanese and Filipina women in Sonoma County created and maintained multiple social and cultural identities between 1900 and 1945. She used the scholarship to offset expenses associated with oral history interviews of Asian American woman.
David Cook
David is a sophomore at University of California, Berkeley. He used the scholarship to attend a field school at Aidonia in Nemea, Greece and make 3D scans of artifacts.

Scholar Webinar
May 30, 2020
2:00 – 4:00 p.m.
“Field excavation at Scladina, Belgium”
by Sarah Foley
2:00 p.m.

“Glass bead analysis to ascertain interaction between settlers, mission inhabitants and native groups during 18th century”
by Danielle Dadiego
~3:00 p.m.

Sarah Foley
Sarah graduated from University of California, Davis in 2019. She has been preparing for graduate school by attending a field school at Scladina, Belgium and volunteering with excavations at Régismont-le-Haute, France. The scholarship offset expenses for the field school.

Danielle Dadiego
Danielle is a PhD candidate at University of California, Santa Cruz. She used this scholarship to conduct archaeometric analyses of glass beads and lead shot for her dissertation research. Her dissertation research explores the question: What was the nature of economic interactions between Spanish settlers, mission inhabitants, and interior native groups with British and French alliances during the eighteenth-century? Her methods combine archival research, traditional artifact analysis and chemical composition and isotopic analyses of glass beads and lead shot using Laser Ablation-Inductivity Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry, Isotopic and chemical composition studies.