It was so interesting to reproduce @benmarwick.bsky.social 's paper and to try to replicate it with openalex.org data. OpenAlex is bigger & more inclusive than commercial databases—but it still lacks many cited references, just like @opencitations.bsky.social. We need to push for more #opencitations

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1/3 New recommendation: @alainqueffelec.bsky.social (2026). Replication report for Marwick (2025) “Is archaeology a science?”, including new data from OpenAlex. V5 peer-reviewed and recommended by PCI #Archaeology doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 🏺🧪🦣 #OpenScience #openaccess

1/3 New recommendation: @alainqueffelec.bsky.social (2026). Replication report for Marwick (2025) “Is archaeology a science?”, including new data from OpenAlex. V5 peer-reviewed and recommended by PCI #Archaeology doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 🏺🧪🦣 #OpenScience #openaccess

Around 40,000 years ago, migrating Homo sapiens spread across Europe carrying handled objects intricately etched with geometric designs. Today, researchers find these signs might have represented an ancient form of proto-writing. #Archaeology #Aurignacian 🧪🏺 New in @science.org

Ancient artifacts hint at earliest protowriting

Geometric shapes on 40,000-year-old bone and ivory suggest early European Homo sapiens long possessed cognitive tools for language

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“Changing the Landscape of Archaeological Publishing” 📚 Congratulations to Dr Jess Beck, Ad Astra Fellow, UCD School of Archaeology, and multi-national co-authors on their important new paper in Current Anthropology critically assessing archaeological publishing. doi.org/10.1086/739789

“Rather than treating [academic] job ads as prescriptions, we frame them as signals — shaped by departmental needs, institutional pressures, and broader social moments. This gives a clearer picture of the demand side of academic archaeology” www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Documents that lay out a research group’s ethos and practical guidelines are becoming increasingly popular in the academic community go.nature.com/3OzPt0h

Lab morale got you down? Try a handbook

Documents that lay out a research group’s ethos and practical guidelines are becoming increasingly popular in the academic community.

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Lab morale got you down? Try a handbook

Lab morale got you down? Try a handbook

Documents that lay out a research group’s ethos and practical guidelines are becoming increasingly popular in the academic community.

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Check out our new article in Current Anthropology on the changing landscape of archaeological publishing! www.doi.org/10.1086/739789

New article! "Changing the Landscape of Archaeological Publishing" in Current Anthropology, by a giant collaborative group of coauthors fearlessly led by Jess Beck and including @bridgetalex.bsky.social @benmarwick.bsky.social @christinawarinner.bsky.social www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

The Paper of the Month from American Antiquity is "Hire Ed: Job Market Dynamics for Tenure-Track Faculty Positions in Archaeology" by Ben Marwick et al., available #openaccess! 📚 https://cup.org/4bJJlw5 #Archaeology #PaperOfTheMonth

New version of my reproduction and replication attempt of @benmarwick.bsky.social 's paper published few months ago in JAS, but here with #OpenAlex and #OpenCitations data. You can read it in a interactive html page here: aqueff.github.io/replication_... 🧪🏺

Early humans in central China may have been making sophisticated stone tools as early as 160,000 years ago, according to research in Nature Communications. This discovery challenges the perception that stone tool technology in Asia lagged behind Europe and Africa during this period. 🏺 🧪

Technological innovations and hafted technology in central China ~160,000–72,000 years ago - Nature Communications

Stone tools illustrate behavioural complexities in Middle Pleistocene hominin populations. Here, the authors present small dimensional flakes and hafted tools from Xigou, central China, dated to ~160–72 thousand years ago that demonstrate early, complex technological advancements.

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Super interesting article on the archaeology jobs wiki and trends in archaeology job ads

Congratulations to UCD School of Archaeology’s Dr Jess Beck and her colleagues on their paper in American Antiquity, just published December 2025 “Hire Ed: Job Market Dynamics for Tenure-Track Faculty Positions in Archaeology” www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Very excited that our new guidelines for reporting the results of statistical analyses in the Journal of Archaeological Science have now been published online: www.sciencedirect.com/journal/jour... 🦴📊 @ercrema.bsky.social @benmarwick.bsky.social

We looked at 10 years of archaeology tenure-track job ads (2013–2023) to see what departments actually ask for: topics, methods, regions, and application materials. Open-access paper: doi.org/10.1017/aaq.... Data and R code used for the study are openly available here doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 🧪

#考古学のおやつ 2/2 ▶ Setareh Shafizadeh 𝑒𝑡 𝑎𝑙. (2025) Between Nomads and Settlers: A Quantitative Analysis of Lithic Assemblages from Tula’i (Tuleii), Zagros, Iran. 𝐿𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑐 𝑇𝑒𝑐ℎ𝑛𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑦. doi.org/10.1080/0197...

Between Nomads and Settlers: A Quantitative Analysis of Lithic Assemblages from Tula’i (Tuleii), Zagros, Iran

This study examines the lithic assemblages from Tula’i to investigate the occupation styles and mobility strategies of the inhabitants during the Neolithic. We analyzed the lithic production patter...

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Open access:Between Nomads and Settlers: A Quantitative Analysis of Lithic Assemblages from Tula’i (Tuleii), Zagros, Iran. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Using the lead isotope community and neighbouring fields as nucleus, this workshop initiates the development of a toolbox for the archaeological sciences written as R package. bit.ly/4nah57V @benmarwick.bsky.social

Why do societies reliably develop strikingly similar traditions like dance songs, hero stories, shamanism & justice institutions? In a new BBS target article, I propose a theory for such "super-attractors" + cultural evolution more broadly. Now open for commentary: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Co-organizing a session at #SAA San Francisco with T. Kovach: "Toward an Integration of Quantitative Approaches in #Lithic Analysis." A few spots still open! Abstracts due Sept. 4. Email me if you’d like to join the conversation: armando.falcucci@nyu.edu #Archaeology #FlintFriday #FossilFriday 🏺

Here's said mascot along with an excellent checklist by @shreyadimri.bsky.social

🎉New preprint! "TADA! Simple guidelines to improve code sharing" tinyurl.com/8rmnwjrk We present simple guidelines to help researchers of all coding levels improve the transparency and reproducibility of their analytical code, TADA! Transferable, Accessible, Documented, Annotated.

All data and code available on zenodo (doi.org/10.5281/zeno...) and on my GitHub account. #opendata Thanks @benmarwick.bsky.social ‬for the possibility to learn from reproducing your work and for providing the basis for this replication, which are unfortunately excessively rare in #Archaeology!

New #preprint online: Reproduction and replication of @benmarwick.bsky.social (2025), with data from OpenAlex. Accessible as interactive html version: aqueff.github.io/replication_... and more traditional manuscript with doi here: doi.org/10.31235/osf... Is archaeology a hard or soft science? 🏺🧪

Here is my checklist summarising a small set of some of the simplest tasks you can do that have high potential to improve the reproducibility of your analysis code. This is based on my year of reproducibility reviews for the J. of Archaeological Science: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lHjN_6yUM... 🧪🏺

I'm happy to share this review article, where I attempt to ponder about missed opportunities in archaeological statistical modelling.

Statistical modelling in archaeology: some recent trends and future perspectives

This paper reviews the application of statistical models in archaeology in the last decade, focusing in particular on multilevel models, statistical t…

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Is archaeology a science? 🧪 Here's my new paper that has a go at answering this question by analysing 10,000 journal articles: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lHjN_6yUM...

🚨 Big milestone for Rdatasets 🚨 The web archive now hosts 3400+ free and documented CSV datasets. Fantastic for teaching and testing! And {Rdatasets} is a new #RStats 📦 for easy download and search Web archive: vincentarelbundock.github.io/Rdatasets R 📦: vincentarelbundock.github.io/Rdatasetspkg

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