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AquaTerra on GitHub

Newhard, Levine, and Phebus (2014) presented a LCP model that incorporated both terrestrial and marine costs to assist in exploring the connectivity between places. Developed in ArcGIS ModelBuilder, the initial model was streamlined by Nicola Buescher, Christina Carmack, Caleb Whitaker, Zach Campbell … Continue reading

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Reflections on the EAA 2013 Roundtable on “Ephemeral Landscapes”

In September, the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) held its meetings in Pilsen, Czech Republic.  I attended this meeting, and participated in a roundtable on ‘Ephemeral Landscapes,’ organized by Martijn vanLeusen, Andrew Bevan, Kayt Armstrong, and Wieke deNeef.  The workshop … Continue reading
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Archaeology, Humanities, and Data Science | The ArchaeoInformant

Archaeology, Humanities, and Data Science | The ArchaeoInformant.
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Archaeology, Humanities, and Data Science

I’m going to get on a soapbox, here.  I hope that this elicits some debate/discussion/verbal thinking aloud by others. I was recently forwarded a posting from LinkedIn,[1] which, like many, discusses the coming wave of needs for data scientists.  The amount of … Continue reading

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Three-Dimensional Modeling in Mediterranean Archaeology: An Open Invitation

Reblogged from The Archaeology of the Mediterranean World: The positive response to my call for blog posts on issues centered on 3D modeling in Mediterranean archaeology has continued. For recent posts on this topic see here, here, and here. My motivation … Continue reading
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Managing Archaeological Data in the Digital Age: Best Practices and Realities

Reblogged from The Archaeology of the Mediterranean World: This past week, Deb Brown, who co-organized our panel at the Archaeological Institute of America’s annual meeting made the talks available on the YouTubes. All the papers were very solid on this … Continue reading
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Some More Thoughts on Digital History

Reblogged from The Archaeology of the Mediterranean World: Our panel yesterday on Managing Archaeological Data in a Digital Age was really nice. There was an engaged audience and a diverse but cohesive group of papers. What more could you want … Continue reading
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