DINAA, CRM, Cyberinfrastructure (Other Keyword)
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Big Data/Big Picture Research: DINAA (The Digital Index of North American Archaeology) and the Things Half a Million Sites Can Tell Us (2015)
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The DINAA project allows archaeologists to explore archaeological questions at a large scale, facilitating big picture research. Information from >500,000 archaeological sites in 15 states in Eastern North America is used to examine the effects of climate and vegetation change on human existence, in the past as well as in the future. Distribution maps illustrate where people were concentrated on the landscape at various times in the past, as well as areas they avoided, and environmental factors...