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Collaborative Research, Synthesis Centers, and the Challenge of Connecting the Past to the Present (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "Big Ideas to Match Our Future: Big Data and Macroarchaeology" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Synthesis in archaeology has traditionally been the province of the lone scholar, requiring heroic efforts of finding, integrating, and interpreting the results of published and unpublished reports. Such an approach is no longer tenable. The advent of CRM has led to a mountain of documented but only partially interpreted data....