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Since its beginnings, the Çatalhöyük project has stood out as an early adopter of latest innovations in information technology and digital recording solutions. Consequently, a considerable effort went into keeping the technology infrastructure on site up to date, incorporating new developments, and ensuring compatibility of applications. A core component of the Çatalhöyük technology infrastructure is a central database which hosts textual and numeric records of the excavation. Excavation and...
Creating a Geospatial-Temporal Database for California’s Central Coast (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. California’s Central Coast is characterized by a variety of environments that would have offered indigenous peoples a plethora of resources for nearly ten thousand years. Over the course of nearly a century of archaeological investigations, thousands of sites have been identified in the region. Since the 1950s, radiocarbon dating has offered relatively...
Tackling the Big Challenges of Big Data: An Example from the U.S. Southwest (2017)
We see archaeology in the twenty-first century as an increasingly cumulative enterprise. The sheer volume of data produced in recent years has both facilitated and necessitated new approaches to synthesis that involve the compilation of massive databases and the development of new platforms for archiving and accessing data. ‘Big data’ compilations are poised to be the backbone of many new advances but with ‘big data’ come big challenges. In this presentation, we summarize several daunting issues...