How to Develop Software-Based Systematic Reviews of Archaeological Research Articles with Information from the Digital Index of North American Archaeology (DINAA)

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This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

This paper illustrates the application of systematic review software to conduct meta-analyses of archaeological research articles. With an eye toward the practice of meta-analyses in archaeology and other sciences, we will explore the utility of systematic review software tools to accomplish meta-analytical tasks regarding subjects best addressed at the level of the archaeological site using a wide range of tabular and textual source materials, providing documentation on quality control, data extraction, and choices for syntheses of findings from the archaeological literature. Demonstration of selection of archaeological research articles will focus on use of the Digital Index of North American Archaeology (DINAA). DINAA provides a useful lens through which to identify relevant materials for systematic reviews through its linked literature offerings to a variety of archaeological research journals, which are organized by archaeological site numbers, capable of being sorted spatiotemporally, by components, and by a number of site attributes. For systematic reviews of archaeological literature and other primary site-level documentation to be significantly enabled in American archaeology, it will require the greater use of information sorting and linking strategies, such as those used in DINAA, at wider scales between publishers, repositories, laboratories, cultural resource management practitioners, regulatory agencies, and individual projects.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 90th Annual Meeting, Denver, CO (2025)   •
• SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts

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Abstract Id(s): 53346