My name is Dalton Adams, and I'm from Central Maine, just outside the historic city of Bangor. I'm a senior studying Classical Civilizations at Wheaton College and I am hoping to pursue a career in Classical Archaeology and Classical Numismatics (i.e. ancient coins) after graduate school. I have spent my undergraduate career focusing on the cultural and physical histories of Greece, Rome, North Africa, and the Middle East, as well as studying Latin, Greek, and Italian, some of the most used languages in archaeology. Beyond that, I have tried to study a wide range of topics that interest me, some of which have archaeological goals, some of which do not. From this curiosity I acquired a math minor, not because it would help my future studies, but because it would bring me some semblance of joy. I took multiple English literature classes, on the other hand, because they would help my textual analysis of classical works, and so that experience will directly relate to my future endeavors.

This course falls under that latter category for me. While some aspects of this course will likely not be all that helpful to me, they will grow my knowledge and skill base. However, those aspects which are of use will be so in multiple ways. As Classical Archaeology is pulled into the 21st-century kicking and screaming, modern photographing, photogrammetry, scanning, and imaging technologies have started to come into favor. With this, modeling of sites and objects, both in 2 and 3 dimensions, have become prominent aspects of research and even publications. This class will help give me an edge in the graduate school application process and the workforce by showing that I can already perform many of these tasks. As a practical experiment, I hope to scan and print some objects (probably of the modern vintage) to explore the level of accuracy and the usefulness of such models. I also hope to discover more applications for this course as time goes on. Afterall, Archaeology is always finding new ways to appropriate technologies from other fields.