Theme:
1. Artefacts, Buildings & Ecofacts
Session format:
Regular session
Title:
Large Quantities of Scientific Data: Stepping Stones for Interdisciplinary Research in Archaeology
Content:
Higher amounts of scientific data about the human past justify the pursuit of more complex models of past processes and events. This is a driver for archaeology to become increasingly interdisciplinary—to analyze, synthesize and harmonize theoretical approaches, methods and data from diverse (sub)disciplines into a cohesive whole. This session invites papers which address the application of large quantities of diverse data for model building (especially diachronic macro-scale) and other interdisciplinary investigations. Research questions to be addressed include:
- What new perspectives can emerge from the integration of large and highly diverse datasets?
- What new models of the past are only explorable by means of interdisciplinarity and large datasets?
- Which case studies exemplify synthesis through interdisciplinary collaboration?
This session invites papers which move beyond the standardization of recording to analyze multiple data types in a interdisciplinary fashion—drawing inspiration and inference from different disciplines (archaeology, archaeogenetics, palaeoecology, archaeometry, environmental archaeology, ecology etc.) to create new knowledge that is greater than the sum of its parts. We would like to invite speakers dealing routinely with large datasets covering large areas and taking a long-term perspective over millennia. We also welcome papers which present new theoretical approaches which unify diverse disciplines into new and cutting-edge modes of model-building, database construction and/or interpretation.
Keywords:
Big Data, Interdisciplinarity, Multi-scalar archaeology, Modelling, Archaeological theory
Session associated with MERC:
no
Session associated with CIfA:
no
Session associated with SAfA:
no
Session associated with CAA:
no
Session associated with DGUF:
no
Session associated with other:
Main organiser:
Jan Kolar (United Kingdom) 1
Co-organisers:
Samatha Reiter (Denmark) 2
Serena Sabatini (Sweden) 3
Robert Staniuk (United Kingdom) 1
Affiliations:
1. Institute of Archaeology, University College London
2. National Museum of Denmark
3. Department of Historical Studies, University of Gothenburg
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