The ArchaeoTech Podcast

Recent discussions with colleagues and the February 2024 issue of Advances in Archaeological Practice had Paul thinking about what we do with our digital data. This is an evergreen topic, and one that we’ve touched on before, but is always good to revisit.

• For rough transcripts of this episode go to https://www.archpodnet.com/archaeotech/215

• Advances in Archaeological Practice February 2024 Issue
• Protocols.io
• FAIR and CARE
• Good overview of the issue: Domeischel J, Childs ST. A Collections-Based View of the Future of Archaeology. Advances in Archaeological Practice. 2024;12(1):1-4. doi:10.1017/aap.2023.37

• Chris Webster
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This week we interview Dr. Matthew Harpster about his research using polygons to measure the density of maritime activity in the ancient Mediterranean Sea. He was a guest on the show back in 2020, and 4 years later he returns to discuss his new book that reveals patterns in ancient maritime activity and creates a narrative for this activity based on archaeological data from the sea floor.

• For rough transcripts of this episode go to https://www.archpodnet.com/archaeotech/214

• ArchaeoTech Podcast Episode 126 (April 2020)
• Reconstructing a Maritime Past (Routledge)

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Recent discussions with colleagues and the February 2024 issue of Advances in Archaeological Practice had Paul thinking about what we do with our digital data. This is an evergreen topic, and one that we’ve touched on before, but is always good to revisit.

• For rough transcripts of this episode go to https://www.archpodnet.com/archaeotech/213

• Advances in Archaeological Practice February 2024 Issue
• Good overview of the issue:
  Domeischel J, Childs ST. A Collections-Based View of the Future of Archaeology. Advances in Archaeological Practice. 2024;12(1):1-4. doi:10.1017/aap.2023.37
• Protocols.io

• Chris Webster
  Twitter: @archeowebby
  Email: [email protected]
• Paul Zimmerman
  Twitter: @lugal
  Email: [email protected]

• APN Website: https://www.archpodnet.com
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• Motion: https://www.archpodnet.com/motion

Archaeology is always seen as a field pursuit and for the most part, it is. However the interpretations of archaeology should be accessible to all. Our guests today, Dr. Alessandro Sebastiani and Dr. Laura Morabito presented their thoughts on accessibility in archaeology at the World Archaeology Summit in Alula, Saudi Arabia in September 2023. They discuss things like 3D reconstruction and VR as tools to bring people to archaeological sites and research without physically bringing them there.

• Chris Webster
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• Paul Zimmerman
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  Email: [email protected]

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On this episode we bring back Dr. Denisse Argote to talk about some of the new things she and her team are doing in Mexico. We get an update on Teotihuacan and other research. We even talk about ray guns on archaeological sites! Or portable XRF. Either way, it’s great.

For rough transcripts of this episode go to https://www.archpodnet.com/archaeotech/211

• Denisse Argote, survey at Teotihuacan: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440320300637#!
• Episode 134: https://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/archaeotech/134
• The Backdoor to Hell, Dutch Stonehenge, and the Age of Bamboo - TAS 225: https://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/archaeology/225

• Chris Webster
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  Email: [email protected]
• Paul Zimmerman
  Twitter: @lugal
  Email: [email protected]

• APN Website: https://www.archpodnet.com
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Motion: https://www.archpodnet.com/motion

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We bring back one of the founders of tDAR, Keith Kintigh for this episode. Keith gives us the tDAR backstory and tells us how it’s staying relevant in a world of AI and digital archaeology. We talk about tDAR’s future as well.

For rough transcripts of this episode go to:https://www.archpodnet.com/archaeotech/210

• The Digital Archaeological Repository (tDAR)
• Archaeotech - Episode 92
• Archaeotech - Episode 157

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We have an interesting interview today with Gideon Shelach-Lavi. He’s part of a team that is researching walls in Mongolia. These walls span a large distance and range of time and some are contemporaneous with the Great Wall. Gideon talks about the tech they used to map and analyze the miles of walls they’ve found and what’s next for them.

For rough transcripts of this episode go to https://www.archpodnet.com/archaeotech/209

• Gideon Shelach-Lavi, surveys, including use of aerial imagery, to find medieval walls on the Mongolian steppes https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/medieval-longwall-construction-on-the-mongolian-steppe-during-the-eleventh-to-thirteenth-centuries-ad/69850626FA671DD5A8454DD63EC31CFD
• “The Wall” project website: https://thewall.huji.ac.il
• Gideon’s Academia.edu profile: https://huji.academia.edu/GideonShelachLavi

• Chris Webster
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• Paul Zimmerman
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We’re talking about Chacoan road networks again! A few years ago we interviewed Sean Field. He was doing research on the road networks coming into and out of Chaco Canyon. Sean Field is at it again with another paper but this time he’s using Lidar to analyze road profiles. It’s an innovative technique and Chris and Paul discuss it on this week’s show.

For rough transcripts of this episode go to https://www.archpodnet.com/archaeotech/208

• “Lidar Derived Road Profiles” - Advances in Archaeological Practice: https://doi.org/10.1017/aap.2022.31
• Archaeotech 117 with Sean Field: https://www.archpodnet.com/archaeotech/117

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We talk to Dr. Markus Eberl about his team’s use of a particle scanner to analyze micro-debitage. They used machine learning to analyze the data set and tried to learn more about early life than we could otherwise.

For rough transcripts of this episode go to https://www.archpodnet.com/archaeotech/207

• Machine Learning–Based Identification of Lithic Microdebitage

• Chris Webster
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Artificial Intelligence programs like ChatGPT and Google’s “Bard” seem to be the hot topic of conversation these days. They’re being used to write papers, finish reports, and reply to emails, among other thing. But, what do they really know? Chris asks ChatGPT and Bard what they know about topics related to digital archaeology on today’s episode.

Watch this on YouTube: https://youtu.be/c86slnkEcWQ

• ChatGPT: https://openai.com
• Murf: https://murf.ai
• Play.HT: https://play.ht

• Chris Webster
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