Theme:
2. Archaeological Sciences, Humanities and the Digital era: Bridging the Gaps
Session format:
Regular session
Title:
The Impact of Digital Methods in Bioarchaeology and Paleoanthropology: Innovative Applications and Technological Advances
Content:
The study of human remains is a fundamental part of archaeology, that is currently undergoing modernization through the improvement and/or development of methods and technologies. The recent innovations in both approaches and protocols increasingly allow for sustainable management of the invaluable sources of information represented by skeletal materials, also aiming at their long-term preservation. Technological advances and multidisciplinary approaches made nowadays possible an easier, safer, and more efficient extraction of data from human remains, with an increased power of analysis. This session wants to address such advancements applied to collections coming from archaeological and paleoanthropological contexts, and it welcomes papers that delve into automatic and standardized methods across the entire spectrum of archaeological and anthropological research. The focus extends to the utilization of tools and methodologies. This session will address the application and/or development of new approaches, rooted in machine learning, artificial intelligence, databases and other computational tools. Furthermore, implying the application of existing methods to novel contexts or disciplines, or the use of cutting-edge technologies on old samples to obtain new data. It will represent a chance for scholars to present new opportunities and approaches - or novel data from known collections - to colleagues dealing with human remains.
Keywords:
Bioarchaeology, Paleoanthropology, Methodological approaches, Virtual anthropology, Digital archaeology, Computational anatomy
Session associated with MERC:
no
Session associated with CIfA:
no
Session associated with SAfA:
no
Session associated with CAA:
yes
Session associated with DGUF:
yes
Session associated with other:
Main organiser:
Panagiota Bantavanou (Greece) 1
Co-organisers:
Elissavet Ganiatsou (Greece) 1
Julie Arnaud (Italy) 2
Costantino Buzi (Spain) 3,4
Antonietta Del Bove (Spain) 4
Affiliations:
1. Laboratory of Physical Anthropology, Department of History and Ethnology, Democritus University of Thrace, Komotini, Greece
2. Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Università degli Studi di Ferrara
3. Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution (IPHES-CERCA), Tarragona
4. Department of History and History of Art, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona
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