Recent Presentations
How do we keep “bro-ing” away from open access archaeology?: Open Access, Cultural Appropriation, and Archaeology
William A. White, III Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
University of California, Berkeley
Abstract “Bro-ing” is a market research practice pioneered by Nike and reported by Naomi Klein (2000:75) where designers bring prototypes to inner-city neighborhoods to gauge reactions to new styles and products. This practice also creates buzz that can be used to sell those products to the same communities.
Open access archaeology helps make archaeological data available to larger research communities.
read moreRespecting the Past and Protecting the Future: Strategies for Implementing Digital Best Practices in Historical Archaeology Research on Military Installations
In Cultural Resources Management, many archaeological survey projects are undertaken through contract services provided to regional federal clients with large-scale resource evaluation needs. In the case of military properties, each installation maintains SOPs and curatorial operations to serve the needs of their unique CRM department. While modern military and government security may exist at the forefront of on-the-ground practice at these locations, the historical research and archaeological data related to historic and precolonial communities and individuals that once resided on these properties should be handled with equal sensitivity.
read moreOpen Data, Indigenous Knowledge, and Archaeology: The need for community-driven open data projects
Dr. Kisha Supernant Department of Anthropology, University of Alberta DRAFT: Do not cite in any context without the permission of the author
Introduction: With the rise of the digital age, new possibilities for expanding the accessibility and long-term sustainability of archaeological data have emerged. A body of literature over the past ten years has contributed to important debates about the role of digitization of, open access to, and community engagement with both digitized and born-digital archaeological data (Beale 2012; Beck and Neylon 2012; Bevan 2012; Costa, et al.
read moreWhy We Should Reassess How We Define Sensitive Archaeological Data and How We Share It
Anne M. Wolley Vawser Midwest Archeological Center National Park Service Think back to your first field school when you learned the basics of archeological investigations, whether it was excavating a roman ruin or conducting pedestrian survey in some western US state. Your professors and TAs were always after you to document, document, document through field notes and forms, and maybe later you were lucky enough to help write up part of the report of your findings.
read moreNegotiating Complexity in the Management of Sensitive Digital Data
David Gadsby National Park Service Appropriate stewardship of sensitive archeological data necessarily involves overlapping and intertwined authorities, systems, and institutions. The authorities, in turn have different limits and requirements, while various entities have divergent purposes, needs, and protocols. Archeologists, librarians, data managers, planners, and resource managers who work with sensitive data require a thorough understanding of the nature of both the physical and digital resources and the contexts in which they are embedded.
read moreReinterpreting state shifts using legacy data: colonialism and zooarchaeological assemblages in southern Arizona
Nicole Mathwich, Ph.D. Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, Tuscon, AZ ABSTRACT
Complex systems approaches to archaeological interpretation are well-established in the discipline and offer important ways for studying change over various scales. Large datasets and regional syntheses invite new applications of complex systems applications of complex systems to archaeological data. At the same time, indigenous and postcolonial perspectives have increasingly become foundational to project planning, data collection, and interpretation.
read moreAbstract: Chacoan Complexities
The Chaco Research Archive (CRA, chacoarchive.org) has been available since 2004 and the Salmon Pueblo Archaeological Research Collection (SPARC, salmonpueblo.org) launched in May of 2018. These web-based portals, as their names indicate, were both designed primarily with the academic researcher in mind. While these resources acknowledge the diverse descendant communities within the Southwest, neither has deliberately focused on eliciting robust Native perspectives to coincide with Euro-American forms of archaeological classification and interpretation.
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