Category Archives: State of the Field

Classical Archaeology in the early 21st Century: it (more than ever) takes a village.

Several days ago, Dimitri Nakassis posted a question on social media, asking colleagues to chime in on the future of classical archaeology. Many of our responses focused upon such matters as the inequitable expectations of archaeological compared to philological classicists … Continue reading

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Contributions to the SAA Blog Carnival: The Good, Bad, and Ugly of Blogging.

As a prelude to the Society for American Archaeology panel on blogging at their annual meeting in April, a blogging archaeology carnival is being operated from Doug’s Archaeology.  Every month, participants are asked to write on a particular theme, using … 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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Publishing archaeology in the 3rd and 4th dimensions.

Read Andrew Reinhard’s post in Bill Caraher’s series on 3D applications in Mediterranean Archaeology.  Very good ideas to consider.

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Gizmodo Features Archaeology

Gizmodo.com is taking the opportunity of International Archaeology Day to write about the use of technology in archaeology: Geoff Manaugh:  The Technology of Archaeology Kelsey Cambell-Dollaghan:  “The Streets Are Hollow”: What’s It Like to Be an Archaeologist in NYC? Geoff … Continue reading
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3D Thursday – low-cost 3D

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Three Dimensional Field Recording in Archaeology: An Example from Gabii

Reblogged from The Archaeology of the Mediterranean World: This is the first in a series of posts exploring 3D modeling in Mediterranean and European archaeology. For more on this project click here. We hope these papers will start a discussion either … Continue reading
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Three Dimensional Imaging in Mediterranean Archaeology: A Short Introduction to a Blog Project

Reblogged from The Archaeology of the Mediterranean World: Over the past half decade, Mediterranean and Old World archaeology has entered a bold new world of inexpensive three-dimensional documentation. Using photogrammetry software like Agisoft Photoscan, increasingly powerful laptop computers, low-cost drones … 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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