Steve Rector
MA Candidate, Archaeology
Graduate Student
Bio

Pronouns: he/him/his

I earned my B.A. from the University of Kansas in 2022 double majoring in Classical Antiquity (Archaeology track) and Classical Languages. For my undergraduate honors thesis I designed and built a UAV based LiDAR sensor which I employed at the 1st century AD Roman site of Antiochia ad Cragum in south-central Turkey. I am currently processing data from that season and working on developing a LiDAR processing workflow and system improvements.

My academic and research interests include the archaeology of the Mediterranean, ancient Anatolia, GIS and remote sensing, landscape archaeology and topographic survey, urban development, UAV-based LiDAR and photogrammetry, archaeological computing, quantitative methods in archaeology, agent-based modeling, and machine learning. I have participated in archaeological excavations in Turkey and in the state of Kansas.

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