Ebert & Associates

Eileen Camilli and James I. Ebert are both, by virtue of their graduate education and years of field and research experience, archaeologists and anthropologists, and at Ebert & Associates we incorporate the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of both of these disciplines into all of the diverse areas of study we address. For instance, fire and many other sorts of scenes are just like archaeological sites: the events which caused them have radically altered the pre-fire "scene," and investigators further alter them as they move things about immediately afterward (much as natural processes change the archaeological record after its deposition). Environmentally significant sites have been damaged by past human industrial behavior. To go beyond simply identifying and naming things one sees in aerial or terrestrial photos taken at such sites, one must employ archaeological and anthropological thinking and methods.

In addition to applying these methods in our forensic and environmental projects, however, we also strive to conduct research focusing explicitly on the development of archaeological and anthropological applications of digital and other evolving technologies. In the past decades, Ebert & Associates has contributed to the advancement of archaeological and anthropological methods in a number of areas including: