#digitalarchaeology

Welwyn Archaeological Society@welwynarchsoc.bsky.social · last mo.

Sad to hear of the passing of Roy Hodson, pioneering user of #statistical methods in #archaeology. Although we only met in passing quite some time ago, his work forms the foundations of much quantitative archaeology and an important part of the @uclarchaeology.bsky.social 's history. RIP.

Gingerly raises head above parapet 😅 Ethics and Digital Archaeology doi.org/10.1093/9780... (green OA version: doi.org/10.17613/c0q...) #digitalarchaeology

Ethics and Digital Archaeology

Abstract. This chapter investigates the development and current state of digital ethics in archaeology. It argues that there is limited demonstration and r

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🕶 New for 2026: XR Lab demos! Show your VR, AR, game, or digital tool at CAA-UK 2026. Bring your research to life! 📝 1 Sept 🔗 linktr.ee/caa_uk #XR #CAAUK #DigitalHeritage

📢 Thinking of submitting to CAA-UK 2026? We’re keen to hear from: • Students • ECRs • Community & commercial sectors 🗓 Glasgow | 26–27 Nov 📝 1 Sept (demos) | 16 Sept 🔗 linktr.ee/caa_uk #CAAUK #DigitalArchaeology

Ideeën (of juist zorgen!) over een LLM voor de Nederlandse archeologie? Vul dan de vragenlijst in! We nemen deze input mee in de ontwikkeling van TARA. Vragenlijst: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/s9S8buhqUJ Website: tara-llm.nl

New in IA71: #Archaeology in the AI Era: Demystifying powerful and problematic systems shaping the future of the past by Eric C. Kansa https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.71.15 This essay explores how Large Language Models (LLMs) and the generative "Artificial Intelligence" (#AI) services they power […]

RE: https://scholar.social/@ekansa/116811273528024594 This essay discusses some of the costs of #LLM #AI driven mass web-scraping and how it impacts #nonprofit #opendata services like Open Context. #datacuration #rdm #datamanagement

Eric Kansa@ekansa.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 2mo ago

Yay! My essay on the impacts of Large Language Model (#LLM) #AI in #archaeology was just published: https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.71.15 It looks at #bots and mass scraping on the infrastructure supporting #opendata and #openaccess. It also looks at the incentives that encourage the […]

Two spacetime aliens from Saguenay, QC are great arguments for Team Human in considering AI futures: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/techno...

Angine de Poitrine: the alien rock band playing for Team Human

In the war between artists and AI, weirdness may be humanity’s greatest asset

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The ADS Training Portal is now live — free, openly licensed resources on digital preservation and data management for the archaeological community. All materials carry DOIs, CC BY 4.0 licences, and full citations. New resources added every quarter. 👉 buff.ly/al9ZyTV #Archaeology #OpenAccess

OUT NOW! Advances in Digital Archaeology: Proceedings of the 2023 conference Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology – 50 years of synergy 📚 Read online for free or purchase a printed copy at https://www.sidestone.com/books/advances-in-digital-archaeology

I recall the astonishment at a College senior management meeting at the consultants (PwC as I recall) who must have been barely into their thirties, if that, with next to zero experience of universities beyond their time as undergrads. They got a drubbing - sadly to little effect ultimately.

Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · 5mo ago

It's me in the Financial Times, detailing the deep and pernicious influence of one-size-fits-all management consultancy in our universities... Take a look! 👇 www.ft.com/content/5032...

My presentation @caadk.bsky.social yesterday was slightly abbreviated by the need for many of us to get the train. In this 🧵 I'll try to summarise the main point of the talk, which is to encourage my colleagues to make more imaginative use of the amazing open lidar DTMs we have in Denmark #GIS 🏺

A terrific range of #archaeology projects funded by the Heritage Science Data Service @hsds-update.bsky.social, with some interesting Virtual Research Environment developments as well as data resources ...

How inclusive is archaeological data? Carrie Heitman’s latest digital review examines #feminist data science. She highlights how power and bias shape everything from collection to interpretation, outlining approaches for more transparent and equitable #research. 🏺 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Are you an early career heritage scientist? 👀 Shape how the HSDS develops by sharing what you need from our research platform. Sign up for two focus group sessions, March 11 & 25 - £100 (or voucher equivalent) or your time. Find out more here: buff.ly/k3Ngcsd Sign up here: buff.ly/0AVUX5j

HSDS Early Career Professionals Focus Group Sessions

Are you an early career heritage scientist, or a trainee or research student in a related discipline? We'd love to hear from you. The National Heritage Science Forum is running two online focus group…

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Yay! It's a new series of Digital Lunch, hosted by the DAH Lab at the @uoyarchaeology.bsky.social. Check out the fantastic series of speakers we have below. To sign up for the zoom link, fill out this form: forms.gle/GkbwzVZwBH3G...

Very much looking forward to the upcoming Garrod Seminar Series themed 'Artificial Intelligence & the Past's Future' with some fantastic speakers (see below!). You can attend the seminar series online via Zoom (registration link: talks.cam.ac.uk/show/index/1...) - starting this Thursday!

Together with Krist Vaesen, I have written some words of caution about #replication in lithic analysis. We fear that the way the issue has been taken up in #Palaeolithic #archaeology can narrow the scope of disciplinary inquiry 🏺🧪🦣 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New post: A Prehistory of Digital Archaeology introspectivedigitalarchaeology.com/2026/02/01/a... #digitalarchaeology #digitalhumanities

What is this?? Claude should have “good personal values”??? What does that even mean??? Arghhghgfhffh www.anthropic.com/constitution

Claude's Constitution

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

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New post: AI, Access, and Acknowledgement introspectivedigitalarchaeology.com/2026/01/09/a... A number of archaeological/humanities websites are reporting problems with the sheer volume of traffic caused by web crawlers belonging to the various generative artificial intelligence systems ...

I spent the holiday break thinking about Andor, and so should you! The latest post on #AlmostArchaeology by @archaeonado.bsky.social, with a sequel to follow

Luthen and the Louvre: How Andor foretold 2025 (part 1)

By Adrián Maldonado It is long ago, and we are far away. In the imperial capital of Coruscant, the gallery of Galactic Antiquities and Objects of Interest receives some visitors. One of them admires.....

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I have a Cyber Monday deal for you: a one-click download of 10 books (a so-called "Dakota Dozen"). No email, sign-up, sign-in, or other information required. Click. Download. Unzip. Read. Free. #OpenAccess #CyberMonday #FreeBooks mediterraneanworld.wordpress.com/2025/12/01/c...

Cyber Monday: One-Click Download from The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota

People say to me all the time: Bill, I just can’t be bothered to click download every time a new free book comes out from your press. This is an understandable concern. After all, clicking download…

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Thinking I may have bitten off too much ... www.uib.no/en/nia/17912... #digitalarchaeology #digitalhumanities

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Sutton Hoo ship name contest urges no 'Boaty McBoatface' suggestions

Sutton Hoo Ship's Company wants help naming their replica, but urges people not to make joke suggestions.

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This looks excellent! So many contributors whose work in digital Arts & Humanities I so respect. Wish I'd had access to these voices a few years ago when trying to understand my PhD 'failings' and, if that's not enough, it's open access. 🙏 H/t: @eve.gd

Michael Donnay@mjdonnay.bsky.social · 10mo ago

📣 Really proud to announce the publication of Reframing Failure in Digital Scholarship, an #OpenAccess collection of essays co-edited with @amsichani.bsky.social and published by @uolpress.bsky.social that examines the role of failure in #DH and research more broadly @sas-news.bsky.social

Remember that contest/marketing stunt that openai put out to derive methods for identifying archaeological sites in the amazon? I finally got around to checking out the results, and they are unsurprisingly bad. The winner and first runner up really focused on the methods, and the first was […]

'Digital erasure is no accident. Whether data loss is nefarious or negligent; it’s a choice. It’s a choice we do not make.' #wdpd2025 #digitalpreservation #digipres More blogging by me. www.dpconline.org/blog/wdpd/cl...

A great opportunity to see Prof. Steve talk about Govan and Glasgow over the last 1,500 years! Stones, Saints, Ships and Slaves: an archaeology for Glasgow 850 - Prof. Driscoll of Glasgow Archaeology for the 2025 Glasgow Archaeological Society Dalrymple Lecture Series - FREE online and in person.