Digital Archaeology Mentorship: Best Practices in a Rapidly Changing Field

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Capacity Building or Community Making? Training and Transitions in Digital Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Digital archaeology comprises everything from obtaining digital data, to data analysis, representation, and preservation. It is a complex field that is in constant flux, due to the ever changing landscape of available commercial, home grown and open access resources. Training and mentorship are of vital importance for students, but also for the archaeological community as a whole. Mentoring should focus on the principles that underlie digital archaeology: workflow, integration of different information sources and sustainability. The most important goal of training is to create an understanding of why and how applications should adhere to a minimum of basic standards that enable those principles and how to apply these technologies in the archaeological practice. Based on understanding such fundamentals archaeologists will be able to find a medium between being intimidated by technology, or being enthusiastically naïve aficionados of costly experiments.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)   •
• Capacity Building or Community Making? Training and Transitions in Digital Archaeology

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Abstract Id(s): 24214