Reproducible research (Other Keyword)
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This paper highlights the social challenges of bringing "Big Data" to archaeology. In the political economy of universities, corporations, and governments, Big Data enjoys a special status because it tends to require and reinforce institutional and information centralization. We often imagine that the research and analytic opportunities promised by Big Data are a function of the economies of scale offered by the centralized aggregation of fungible datasets. However, many forms of archaeological...
Compendia and Collaboration: A Case Study from Hawai`i (2015)
This paper presents a case study of how open methods and practices of reproducible research facilitated collaboration in the archaeological community that led to the solution of the long-standing problem of when Polynesians colonized Hawai`i. Central to this effort was creation of a compendium from which the dating analysis could be replicated. Practical advice is offered on how to create and share a compendium using software tools familiar to archaeologists. SAA 2015 abstracts made available...
Reproducible Methods for Linking Archaeological Contexts to Households at Monticello (2025)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Historical Archaeology of Chesapeake Landscapes in Transition", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Forty years of excavation at Monticello have yielded artifacts from thousands of contexts created by diverse taphonomic processes. These include spatially scattered quadrats in plowzone sites, lithostratigraphic units from sites with extensive horizontal stratification, and discrete features. This paper describes...