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Anna Catherine Gibbs was born in Waco, Texas and raised in San Antonio, Texas. She received her BA from Baylor University where she began on the San Giuliano Archaeological Research Project (SGARP) as a first year undergraduate. She returned to the project in 2018 and 2019 as a student researcher and completed her senior honors thesis on artifact distribution in the medieval hilltop fortification. While the project was paused for Covid-19 during 2020 and 2021, Anna Catherine has maintained her research interests at SGARP and returned for the 2022 and 2023 seasons as the Total Station Director and in 2024 as an Area Supervisor for La Rocca Trench 2.

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Anna Catherine completed her MA at Florida State University and specialized in remote sensing satellite archaeology, motivated by the limitations of Mediterranean fieldwork during Covid-19. Her MA thesis was on upland mining evidence in southwest Sardinia and ground-truthed her results in 2023, confirming her band-ratioing techniques and research conclusions.

Anna Catherine’s research interests broadly include GIS techniques, Central Italy and Sardinia, but her current investigations are surrounding statistical material analyses and social space in the medieval occupation on the San Giuliano Plateau, Lazio, Italy.

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Chairs: Dr. Alex Bentley & Dr. Stephen Collins-Elliot