Mariana E. Zechini is an anthropology graduate student at the University of West Florida expected to graduate in May 2017. She has extensive experience in bioarchaeology, osteology, and 3D scanning of artifacts. She has worked as a graduate research assistant at UWF and VCU assisting with isotope analysis, scanning artifacts, and grant writing. Zechini has also taught labs, presented her research at conferences, and been involved in public outreach.

1. Curriculum Vitae
Mariana E. Zechini
4041 E. Olive Rd #374
Pensacola, FL 32514
(703) 801-6550
mez1@students.uwf.edu
Education:
2016 M.A. in Anthropology, University of West Florida
Expected Graduation Date: May 2017
2014 B.S. in Anthropology, Virginia Commonwealth University.
Minor in Spanish completed May 2013.
Experience:
2016- Graduate Research Assistant, University of West Florida. Helped conduct
bioarchaeological research on Medieval Berlin under the direction of Dr.
Kristina Killgrove, specifically preparing bones for isotope analysis,
analyzing data, and grant writing.
2016 Graduate Research Assistant, Archaeology Institute, University of West
Florida. Supervised the 3D scanning of artifacts from various sites around
the Gulf Coast at the Archaeology Institute.
2015 Instructor of Record, University of West Florida. Taught the Biological
Anthropology Labs to undergraduate students. Pensacola, Florida.
2014-2015 Graduate Research Assistant, University of West Florida. Assisted Dr.
Kristina Killgrove in three-dimensional scanning. Pensacola, Florida
2013-2014 Digital Zooarchaeologist, Virtual Curation Laboratory at Virginia
Commonwealth University. Assisted in scanning faunal remains using a
NextEngine 3D scanner, prepared educational lessons and taught new
interns how to use equipment. Richmond, Virginia.
2013 Intern, Fairfax County Park Authority, Cultural Resource Management
and Protection Branch. Conducted lab work such as washing, bagging,
weighing, and cataloguing artifacts. Participated in field excavations and
other laboratory tasks when needed.

2. 2013 Field Technician, Volunteer, George Washington’s Ferry Farm. Attended
field school for five weeks in the summer of 2013 where I participated in
field excavation.
2012 – 2013 Intern for Zooarchaeology, Virtual Curation Laboratory at Virginia
Commonwealth University. Responsible for scanning raccoon bones
loaned by the Virginia Museum of Natural History using a NextEngine 3D
Scanner and digitally editing them on the computer. Richmond, Virginia,
2012 Field Technician, Volunteer, George Washington’s Ferry Farm.
Volunteered with field excavation for one week during the summer.
Teaching Experience:
2015 Instructor of Record. Taught the Introduction to Biological Anthropology
(2511L) labs to undergraduate students at the University of West Florida.
2012- 2014 Anthropology and Spanish Tutor, Tutored students for ANTH 103 –
Introduction to Anthropology and ANTH 105 – Introduction to
Archaeology and all Spanish courses
Volunteer Experience:
2016 Helped clean markers at St. Michael’s Cemetery in Pensacola, FL.
2016 Helped grid St. Joseph’s Cemetery in Pensacola, FL for volunteers to
record.
2015 Mitigated tree fall and clean up at St. John the Baptist Cemetery and filled
holes for safety purposes in August.
2015 Cemetery recording performed at Church Street Grave Yard in Mobile,
Alabama during August.
2015 Mitigated tree fall at St. John the Baptist Cemetery for the Archaeology
Institute in February.
2014 Assisted with excavation at a cemetery site at George Washington’s
Mount Vernon in Virginia. August 2015.
2012 Assisted with excavation at George Washington’s Ferry Farm in
Fredericksburg, Virginia. June 2012.
Conference Presentations:

3. 2016 Personalizing Petriplatz: Isotopic Analysis of a Medieval Berlin
Population. Podium presentation presented at the Midwest Medieval
History Conference in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Octover 21-22, 2016.
2016 Digitizing Roger: Creating a Recommended Osteology Guide for e-
Readers. Poster presented with two other graduate students at the 2016
American Association of Physical Anthropologists Annual Meeting in
Atlanta, Georgia. April 13-16, 2016.
2015 Giving 3D Scanning a Porpoise: Digitizing the Zooarchaeological Type
Collection at the University of West Florida. Poster presented alongside
Dr. Kristina Killgrove at the 2015 Society for American Archaeology
Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California. April 16, 2015.
2015 A Pocket Full of Posies: Women and the Black Death. Poster presented at
the 14th annual Women’s Studies Conference at the University of West
Florida. March 16, 2015.
2014 Beyond Extinction: Digital Zooarchaeology and the Passenger Pigeon.
Paper presented at the first annual School of World Studies Senior
Symposium at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia.
April 25, 2014.
2014 Digital Skeletons: Zooarchaeology in the 21st Century. Poster presented at
the first annual School of World Studies Senior Symposium. Virginia
Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia. April 25, 2014
2014 Digital Skeletons: Zooarchaeology in the 21st Century. Poster presented at
the 6th Annual Poster Symposium for Undergraduate Research and
Creativity. Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia.
April 23, 2014.
2013 Zooarchaeology in the 21st Century. Paper presented in the session “Two
Years Before the Past: Activities in the Virtual Curation Laboratory @
VCU“ chaired by Bernard K. Means, at the Archeological Society of
Virginia annual meeting, Virginia Beach, Virginia.
2013 Baculum to the Future: The Application of 3D Technology to
Zooarchaeology. Poster presented at the 5th Annual Poster Symposium for
Undergraduate Research and Creativity. Virginia Commonwealth
University, Richmond, Virginia. April 24, 2013.
2013 Rocky Raccoon: The Application of 3D Technology to Zooarchaeology.
Poster presented at the Middle Atlantic Archaeological Conference.
Relevant Coursework:

4. ANTH 210 – Biological Anthropology
ANTH 301 – Human Evolution
ANTH 302 – Archaeological Theory
ANTH 303 – Archaeological Methods and Design
ANTH 375 – Field Archaeology at Ferry Farm
ANTH 391 – Human Osteology
ANTH 391 – Death and Burial
ANTH 391 – World Archaeology
ANTH 454 – Anthropological Theory
ANTH 493 – Internship in Archaeology at Virtual Curation Laboratory
ANTH 497 – Honors Thesis in Anthropology: Zooarchaeology in the 21st Century
ANG 5536 – Bioarchaeology
ANG 6002 – Anthropology of Death
ANG 6905 – Osteology of Medieval Berlin
ANG 5408 – Disease and Culture
ANG 6093 – Research Design in Anthropology
ANG 6990 – Seminar: The Middle Ages
ANG 5516 – Modern Human Physical Variation
ANG 6110 – Advanced Archaeological Methods and Theory
ANG 6583 – Evolutionary Theory
ANG 6286 – Contemporary Culture / Anthropological Theory
ANG 6905 – Palaeodietary Analysis
Publications:
Means, Bernard K., Mariana Zechini, Ashley McCuistion, Terrie Simmons-Erhardt, Jeff
Aronowitz, Elizabeth Moore, Laura Galke, Lauren Volkers, Vivian Hite, Liz Ale, Zoë
Rahsman, and Allen Huber
2016. Legacy Project #13-334 Virtual Mobility Archaeology Project with Further
Applications of Three Dimensional Digital Scanning of Archaeological Objects.
Final report prepared for the Department of Defense Legacy Resource
Management Program.
Wilkin, Shevan, Matthew Newton, George Kinison, Hillary Jolly, Mariana Zechini,
Anthony Hudson, Andrea Acosta, Maddeline Voas, Kristina Killgrove (Under review)
2015. Florida Bioarchaeology: Past, Present, and Future. Manuscript under
review for The Florida Anthropologist.
Zechini, Mariana
2015. Digital Zooarchaeology: Using 3D Technology on Archaeofaunal
Collections. Quarterly Bulletin of the Archeological Society of Virginia 69(4):
215-228.
Zechini, Mariana

5. 2014. Zooarchaeology in the 21st Century. Quarterly Bulletin of the
Archaeological Society of Virginia 84(1): 19-22.
Zechini, Mariana
2014. Rocky Raccoon: The Application of 3D Technology to Zooarchaeology.
Pennsylvania Archaeologist.
Writing Experience:
2014- Wrote posts for Dr. Kristina Killgrove’s Virtebra (Virtual Bones and
Artifacts) Laboratory related to 3D scanning.
www.virtebra.wordpress.com
2016 Wrote a blog post for Vie Magazine in May. http://viemagazine.com/dont-
panic-hangout-music-festival-2016-rocks/
2012-2013 Created my own professional blog that highlighted my academic and
professional activities during undergraduate school.
www.theanthrolife.wordpress.com
Public Outreach:
2015 By These Hands: Vernacular Markers of Pensacola’s Historic African
American Cemeteries. Demonstrated 3D scanning on markers at St. John
the Baptist Cemetery during an event for the By These Hands project
which aims at conserving and promoting Pensacola’s historic African
American cemeteries. September 19, 2015.
2013 Blast with the Past. A Virtual Archaeology Scanning Team (VAST)
sponsored event that showcased research and projects done by students at
the Virtual Curation Laboratory in Virginia Commonwealth University’s
Student Commons Plaza.
2013 Demonstrating Virtual Archaeology through digital models and plastic
replicas. Presentation and demonstration with Virginia Commonwealth
University students Allen Huber (human skeletal biology), Rachael
Hulvey (historical archaeology at Montpelier), Ashley McCuistion
(chipped stone tools), Lauren Volkers (measuring the past), and Mariana
Zechini (zooarchaeology) to two sections of Historical Research and
Technology, taught by James Triesler. Clover Hill High School,
Midlothian, Virginia.
2013 The Virtual Curation Laboratory and Archaeology in the Community’s
Day of Archaeology. Demonstration of 3D technology with Dr. Bernard
K. Means and Ashley McCuistion. Turkey Thicket Park, Washington, DC.

6. 2013 Animals in Archaeology. Demonstration to “Honors U.S. History” and
“Historical Research and Technology” taught by Emmett Hickham and
James Triesler, respectively. Clover Hill High School, Midlothian,
2013 Small Finds Workgroup on Smoking Pipes. Presented 3D scans and
showed plastic replicas of smoking pipes to participants. Virginia
Department of Historic Resources, Richmond, Virginia.
Fellowships and Awards:
2015 Graduate Student Research Award. Given by the Scholarly and Create
Activities Committee and funded by the Research and Sponsored
Programs Trust Fund, I was awarded $250 for graduate research.
2015 Scholarly and Creative Activities Committee (SCAC) Grant. Awarded by
the SCAC and funded by the Research and Sponsored Programs Trust
Fund, I was awarded $800 for graduate research.
2014 Honors in Anthropology. Given by the College of Humanities and
Sciences at Virginia Commonwealth University.
2014 Outstanding Anthropology Student Award. Given by the College of
Humanities and Sciences at Virginia Commonwealth University
2013 Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program Travel Grant, Virginia
Commonwealth University, to attend and present at the Archaeological
Society of Virginia Conference.
2013 Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program Travel Grant, Virginia
Commonwealth University, to attend and present at the Middle Atlantic
Archaeological Conference, March 2013.
Service:
2015-2016 Events Coordinator, Graduate Anthropology Association, University of
West Florida
2012-2014 Vice President, Virtual Archaeology Scanning Team at Virginia
Commonwealth University.
2013-2014 Member, Anthropology Club at Virginia Commonwealth University.
2013-2014 Member, Forensic Science Club at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Professional Affiliations:

7. Archaeological Society of Virginia
Middle Atlantic Archaeological Conference
American Association of Physical Anthropologists
ResearchInterests:
Regional: Europe, North America, South America
Topical: Bioarchaeology, skeletal biology, stable isotopes, cemetery studies,
medieval archaeology, forensic anthropology, biological anthropology,
paleopathology, virtual artifact scanning, zooarchaeology, historical
archaeology, historic preservation, public archaeology
References:
Dr. Bernard K. Means:
Instructor of Anthropology
Director of the Virtual Curation Laboratory
Virginia Commonwealth University
Phone: (804) 827-1985
Email: bkmeans@vcu.edu
Dr. Elizabeth Moore
Curator of Archaeology
Virginia Museum of Natural History
Phone: (276) 618-1088
Email: Elizabeth.Moore@vmnh.virginia.gov
Dr. Amy Rector Verrelli
Assistant Professor, Anthropology
Virginia Commonwealth University
Phone: (804) 827-3406
Email: arverrelli@vcu.edu
Dr. Kristina Killgrove
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
University of West Florida
Phone: (850) 474-3287
Email: kkillgrove@uwf.edu