The Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery: A Case Study in Slow Archaeology

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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Plantation Archaeology as Slow Archaeology" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

In keeping with the theme of this session, we consider the juxtaposition of Slow Archaeology with “data-centric” research, and what gets lost in framing the two as oppositional. The Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery (DAACS, www.daacs.org) is a web-based initiative designed to foster comparative research on slavery in the Caribbean and the US. Since its beginnings in the early 2000’s DAACS has managed to combine archaeology with data science in ways that we hope serves as a model for web-based scholarship that encourages collaboration and data sharing among archaeologists working in a single region. In this talk we offer a brief history of DAACS and how we avoid the problems of fast science and its correlate - unverifiable data. Second, we describe how we go about conducting collaborative research within a community of scholars and the challenges we face in doing so.

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