Submerged Aircraft Wrecks: A Plea for Appropriate Site Management
Famed Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier once wrote “war was the hellish laboratoryin which aviation became adult and was shaped to flawless perfection.”…
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Archaeological Practice in the Southeast United States
As the Southeastern Archaeological Conference (SEAC) begins, I examined Southeastern-focused articles in Advances in Archaeological Practice to identify emerging trends. Southeastern methodology may best be known for the 1950s Ford-Spaulding debate; however, this review shows that Southeastern methodology is still breaking new ground in archaeology.…
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The je ne sais quoi of American Antiquity
After much work by the American Antiquity (AAQ) Editorial Advisory Board, a revised description and vision of American Antiquity has been drafted for the website home page.…
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Using the illustrative process to reconstruct ceramic design
Following my participation in an extensive illustration project in 2001 of precontact decorated ceramics from the Hohokam site of Snaketown that were curated at the Arizona State Museum, I wrote an article published by AAP in 2014 called Representation and Structure Conflict in the Digital Age: Reassessing Archaeological Illustration and the Use of Cubist Techniques in Depicting Images of the Past. …
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Archaeological Repositories are Places to Train Future Archaeologists
As holders and curators of artifacts and their associated documentation and data, archaeological repositories are a place to learn about past and current excavation strategies, and an excellent training ground for future archaeologists.…
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Teaching with Advances in Archaeological Practice
Advances has been one of my favorite journals since the first issue appeared in my email inbox a little over 10 years ago.…
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Archaeogaming in Advances in Archaeological Practice
“Archaeogaming” occupies the intersection between archaeology and video games and treats these examples of contemporary material culture as artifacts, sites, and landscapes (Reinhard 2018).…
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How do you become an archaeologist?
Archaeological literature offers many answers that vary in their accuracy and utility. Alice Beck Kehoe writes, “How do you become an archaeologist?…
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Juneteenth in Denton
The joy was infectious. “Happy Juneteenth” we shouted to the trucks and people parading by Fred Moore Park in Denton Texas.…
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Why Archaeological Repositories and Data Publishers Care about being FAIR
Post Excerpt Archaeological data that are Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (i.e. FAIR) enable all sorts of things that we can’t do with “hidden” or “siloed” data. As such, FAIR practices have clear impacts on archaeological data use and reuse.
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Academic publishing in 2023: what’s front of mind for archaeologists?
With 2023 on the horizon, and the landscape of academic publishing in flux, Cambridge University Press spoke to the Editors of the SAA’s journals to find out what topics and questions are currently front of mind – for archaeologists, researchers and publishers alike.…
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Looking Forward to the End of ‘Digital Archaeology’
Part of a series of blog posts celebrating the 10th anniversary of the journal Advances in Archaeological Practice. It may come as somewhat of a surprise that the Digital Reviews Editor for Advances in Archaeological Practice is calling for an end to the concept of ‘Digital Archaeology’.…
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Mixing things up in Three Dimensions: The Many Uses of Blender in Archaeology
It is safe to say that archaeology generally isn’t the most well funded discipline. Many of you reading this probably know this all too well.…
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Monico Origins, a Bayesian Story
The acknowledgments section of the Monico Bayesian paper expresses gratitude to “Deb Nichols, John Watanabe, Sophie Nichols-Watanabe, Robert (Bob) L. Kelly, and the Dartmouth Coach for inspiring and facilitating the development of some concepts in this paper.”
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Teaching Data Reuse
In the spring semester of 2020, I developed and taught a class on archaeological data reuse and digital literacy at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee.…
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‘Keeping Your Feet Wet’: Strategies for Increasing Diversity in Underwater Archaeology
In “Getting Your Feet Wet,” (out now open access in Advances in Archaeological Practice) the authors outline barriers to inclusivity writ large in underwater archaeology and provide solutions for increasing diversity in the field.…
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Public Education and Outreach in Archaeology
Archaeology in K-12 and undergraduate classrooms can be used to promote cultural awareness and sensitivity, provide a means of critical thinking, promote cultural awareness and sensitivity, create an awareness of archaeological research, as well as promoting the stewardship of the past.…
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Lidar in Mesoamerica since 2016: Acquisition, Ownership, and Accessibility
In 2016, we were privileged to edit a special section in Advances in Archaeological Practices on lidar in Mesoamerica and are delighted that the editors of AAP have invited us to provide an update to that special section in this blog. At that time, lidar acquisition was still uncommon, with only a handful of projects being fortunate enough to acquire the data that was revolutionizing settlement studies in tropical areas like Mesoamerica.
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A Complicated History of Collaboration with Collectors of Spirit Eye Cave, Texas
Research at Spirit Eye Cave did not take the course I envisioned. In the 1950s and 1960s, this cave, located on a private ranch in West Texas, was a pay-to-dig site. It was extensively dug, all too common with the vast tracts of private land that typify Texas. Initially, the goal of my research was to salvage any information about when the cave was occupied, and to examine the perishable collections.
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How a Rejected Article Started a Journal: The Origins of Advances in Archaeological Practice
Happy birthday! Advances in Archaeological Practice: A Journal of the Society for American Archaeology turns ten this year. You might not think that the birth of a journal is that big of a deal and certainly doesn’t warrant recognition a decade later.…
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Listening and Learning: Maximizing Information Recovery by Consulting with Descendant Native Americans and Collaborating with Landowners
Until 5 years ago, if asked my profession, I’d have said I’m a scientist engaged in basic biomedical research to combat viral diseases.…
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Identifying “Waste Places” – Charcoal Production in Pennsylvania
Authors Benjamin Carter, Jeff Blackadar and Weston Conner joined each other in conversation for this new blog post for Advances in Archaeological Practice.…
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Digital Methods for Archaeological Currents
Archaeology has long contributed new perspectives to past events, transcending written records through the interpretation of material culture. Applied to the present, archaeology has the potential to disrupt and nuance the memorialization of contemporary occurrences as they are inscribed.…
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Working Together to Find and Protect Unmarked Graves
Janvier, Alberta | 2019 It was a cold October morning in northeastern Alberta. I had been invited by the Chipewyan Prairie First Nation (CPFN) to conduct a small ground-penetrating radar (GPR) survey of a historic burial ground on one of their reserves.…
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Testing Color Technology from the Bahamas to the Pandemic Bubble
In mid-March 2020, I stood in my lab and slowly scanned the shelves. The tables were covered in ongoing projects. We had just been told that the University of Florida campus was closing to non-essential personnel and to plan on working from home for at least two weeks (which turned into months).…
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Reflections on Directing My First Field Project: Safety, Logistics, and Preparation
Those of you who were born in the late 80s/early 90s may remember the movie “The Princess Diaries.” Remember the scene where Mia has a rough day, wants to cry, gets in her Mustang, the top won’t go up, and then it starts pouring while she sits drenched and dejected in her open convertible? Let me tell you the archaeology version.
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Health and Wellness in Archaeology: Improving Readiness and Response
One of the many things I love about the field of archaeology is how collaborations come together. A few years ago, a listserv delivered a survey to my inbox on the theme of field crew safety.…
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Student Views on Centering the Margins in Archaeological Knowledge Production
This is a transcribed conversation between two of the four authors of a new article in Advances in Archaeological Practice on why and how to revise introductory archaeology courses to better shape the discipline.…
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Keeping up with ‘Collector’: Further notes on mobile GIS data collection
New digital technologies have been a boon to archaeological field recording as attested by the growing literature on the use of mobile devices, GIS, satellite imagery, and other digital tools.…
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Creating a Curation Community of Practice in Archaeology: A Resolution for the New Year
As 2020—finally—comes to a close, the new year stretches out in front of us, full of possibilities. The long tradition of New Year’s resolutions offers each of us an opportunity to commit ourselves to learning more about curation, collections management, and the lifecycle of the collections we create through our work.…
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Keeping connected in 2020: A journal editor’s experience
Sarah Herr, Co-editor of Cambridge journal Advances in Archaeological Practice, reflects on how being in her role has helped her to form a remarkable connection to the people who are part of her publishing world.…
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Digital Reviews Editor: Transitions
In issue 9(1) of Advances in Archaeological Practice we will transition our Digital Reviews editorship from Dr. Sara Perry (Museum of London Archaeology) to Dr.…
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Practicing Remote Science
COVID-19 related travel restrictions and social distancing protocols have precluded many archaeological field projects in the past six months. And while conferences and meetings can be taken to the virtual realm, the challenges facing those of us whose work is founded on field-based research are becoming readily apparent.…
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Making Mitigation Meaningful to Descendant Communities
“Since the establishment of Grand Canyon National Park in 1919, some stories have been silenced and absented; the many Native American voices that express the sacredness and cultural importance of this place from time immemorial prior to the arrival of Anglo-Americans.”…
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Geomasking: approaches to obscuring sensitive archaeological site locations
Archaeologists have used maps for quite a long while, and with good reason. People, their communities, and their things are situated in places.…
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Creating and Supporting a Harassment- and Assault-Free Field School
When Kathryn Clancy and colleagues published the results of their SAFE survey, many of us who conduct field research were not surprised by the numbers.…
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Too Old to Fail: Banking on Cultural Heritage
“In this blog (my first!), I share the backstory to the Advances in Archaeological Practice article I prepared with my co-author, Meng Ying, in which we examine safeguard policies used by private-sector banks to protect and manage cultural heritage.”…
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Micro Challenges for Archaeological Data Creation and Reuse
Behind every “grand challenge” there are 1000 “micro challenges” that need to be solved first. Digital technologies and services have become a normal part of everyday archaeological practice.…
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Human-Environment dynamics on the shore of Lake Cahuilla
My recent research along the relic shorelines of Lake Cahuilla has been somewhat of a tangent for me. I’ve spent most, if not all, of my professional career investigating archaeological shell middens along Pacific coastlines and offshore islands.…
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The challenge of spatial data availability in 21st century archaeology
In our article, we argue that the future of ‘dates as data’ approaches for paleo demographic research requires precise spatial data, which depends on the development of new heritage management policies concerning the accessibility of archaeological data.
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Born-digital photography: not all prints are created equal
A few years ago, I opted to take on the overwhelming task of organizing and digitizing the records associated with the legacy collections at the Natural History Museum of Utah.…
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How to make the data and code for your manuscript available to peer reviewers ‘before’ making it public
It’s no surprise to any internet user that the way we communicate is rapidly changing. For example, in the distant past, we learned the news of the world by reading a few paragraphs of tiny text in hard copies of newspapers.…
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Curating large skeletal collections: An example from the ancient Maya site of Copan, Honduras
Fifteen years ago it seemed my dreams were coming true. Jane Buikstra had just agreed to take me on as her PhD student and I was invited to begin an inventory of the skeletal remains at Copan, Honduras.…
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How researchers can solve the bottle-opener problem with compute capsules
Imagine a group of people playing a sport together on a hot day. Although it’s a friendly match, they play vigorously and at the end of their game they’re hot and thirsty.…
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Australian Academic Press journals move to Cambridge
For 2012, 19 journals formerly published by Australian Academic Press (AAP) are moving to join the Cambridge Journals list of over 300 academic and professional titles.…
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Conversations with Authors: Institutionalized Police Brutality
This is the first post in our new series: “Conversations with Authors.” For our inaugural post, we asked Dr. Vesla Weaver to meet (virtually) with Dr.…
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Sluts, Bitches, and Battle-axes: women and insults
The English language contains a wealth of insults and terms of abuse. Personal insults attack the core and immutable aspects of a person, such as their race, ethnicity, appearance, age, or a disability.…
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Reflections on House of Secrets: The Burari Deaths
The March article of Muses – the arts blog from BJPsych International is the first blog of the series. The blog is written by Dr Dami Ajayi, Specialty Doctor, Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and Trainee/Blog Editor, BJPsych International.…
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The impact of parasite infection on mental illness
More and more research is finding inflammation as a potential contributing factor towards to the development of various mental illnesses. A systematic review was conducted to determine the association between parasitic infection and mental illnesses in various African populations. Two parasite groups were evaluated; helminths and protozoans, and four mental illness classifications; depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, schizotypal disorders and unspecified mental illnesses.
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Transplanting kingship
Once upon a time in Paphos, so tells Plutarch (Mor. 340d), Alexander the Great decided that the reigning king was unjust and wicked, and removed him from his throne.…
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The Epistemic Location of Bandung
Encountering a counter question “When we think of international law, which city do we imagine?” “Rome?” “Osnabrück?” “Versailles?” “Paris?” “The Hague?”…
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Mona Suleiman Awarded Inaugural Irish Society for Parasitology William C. Campbell Award
This year, Mona Suleiman, who is doing her PhD at the University of Bath, was the winner of the award. The competition this year was high, but Mona’s presentation stood out for the fundamental impacts of her research that were explained in a very comprehensible way.
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Nothing-Burger? U.S. Obligation to Defend the Philippines in the South China Sea – Part 1
It is an article of faith among ordinary Filipinos that American troops will die with Filipino troops defending Philippine claims to the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea (SCS).…
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The impact of parasite infection on mental illness
More and more research is finding inflammation as a potential contributing factor towards to the development of various mental illnesses. A systematic review was conducted to determine the association between parasitic infection and mental illnesses in various African populations. Two parasite groups were evaluated; helminths and protozoans, and four mental illness classifications; depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, schizotypal disorders and unspecified mental illnesses.
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Reflections on House of Secrets: The Burari Deaths
The March article of Muses – the arts blog from BJPsych International is the first blog of the series. The blog is written by Dr Dami Ajayi, Specialty Doctor, Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and Trainee/Blog Editor, BJPsych International.…
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Medieval Ethiopia, ‘Antiquity’, and African Archaeology
The opportunity to showcase some of the exciting archaeological research currently underway on medieval Ethiopia in a journal as widely read as Antiquity is important.
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Experimenting with tablet-making
At the end of the Greek Bronze Age, between c.1400-1200 BCE, the Mycenaean palaces of Crete and mainland Greece used small clay tablets to keep their accounting documents.
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The 33%: Q&A with Dame Anna Dominiczak
Q&A with Editor-in-Chief of the Precision Medicine Journal, Dame Anna Dominiczak, for International day of Women and Girls in Science
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Time to Manifest Ourselves against a Total Collapse
International law is in turmoil, and under challenge. It has been likewise for centuries, but particularly since 24 February this year.…
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