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Category Archives: Academia
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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Tagged Archaeology, Classics, College of Charleston
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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
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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Tagged GIS, Modeling
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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.
3D Thursday – low-cost 3D
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AIA Award for Outstanding Work in Digital Archaeology
Deadline extended to October 1.
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Barbarians at the Gate: Comments on Comments
Reblogged from From the Archivist’s Notebook: Jack L. Davis, Carl W. Blegen professor of Greek Archaeology at the University of Cincinnati and former director of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (2007-2012), here responds to remarks by colleagues concerning … 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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Tagged Archaeoinformatics, Archaeology, Classics, development, Digital Humanities
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“Day of Archaeology”
A few years ago, some individuals in the United Kingdom got together and thought it would be interesting if professional archaeologists, on a single day, would write about what their job entailed. The ‘Day of Archaeology’ began in 2011 and … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthropology, Archaeology, Classics, College of Charleston, development
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