Archaeology and the Big Tent of the Digital Humanities

Slides from my MITH (Maryland Institute for Technology & the Humanities) Digital Dialogue talk. For full details in the talk, go to http://mith.umd.edu/podcasts/ethan-watrall-archaeology-and-the-big-tent-of-the-digital-humanities/

Transcript

1. ARCHAEOLOGY Dr. Ethan Watrall Department of Anthropology MATRIX: The Center for the Arts, Letters, & Social Sciences Online Michigan State University @captain_primate DIGITAL HUMANITIES BIG TENT & THE OF
2. THE “BIG TENT” @captain_primate | #mithdd
3. ARCHAEOLOGISTS? WHERE ARE ALL THE @captain_primate | #mithdd
4. @captain_primate | #mithdd www.dh2012.uni-hamburg.de
5. @captain_primate | #mithdd PLENARY SESSIONS: 2 PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS: 10 PANELS: 11 PAPERS: 137 POSTERS: 46 www.dh2012.uni-hamburg.de
6. @captain_primate | #mithdd 2 (and a half?) www.dh2012.uni-hamburg.de
7. @captain_primate | #mithdd www.archaeologysouthwest.org/2011/06/16/significant-results I DUNNO...is the “D” for Dirt? DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS “DH” THING IS?
8. @captain_primate | #mithdd vs ANTHROPOLOGICAL ARCHAEOLOGISTS HUMANIST ARCHAEOLOGISTS
9. @captain_primate | #mithdd HUMANIST ARCHAEOLOGISTS view archaeology as a toolkit to describe (and understand) specific events and phenomena ANTHROPOLOGICAL ARCHAEOLOGISTS attempt to systematically and rigorously understand the organization, operation, and evolution of human societies based on the study material culture
10. HUMANIST ARCHAEOLOGY @captain_primate | #mithdd
11. ANTHROPOLOGICAL ARCHAEOLOGY @captain_primate | #mithdd
12. WHY? @captain_primate | #mithdd
13. BRIEF HISTORY OF DIGITAL ARCHAEOLOGY   WHY THE SEPARATION?  LOCI FOR FRUITFUL COMMUNICATION & COLLABORATION @captain_primate | #mithdd
14. BRIEF HISTORY OF DIGITAL ARCHAEOLOGY @captain_primate | #mithdd
15. DIGITAL ARCHAEOLOGY @captain_primate | #mithdd computational
16. DATA   DRAFTING  GEOSPATIAL  MULTIMEDIA @captain_primate | #mithdd
17. DATA   DRAFTING  GEOSPATIAL  MULTIMEDIA @captain_primate | #mithdd
18. DATA ANALYSIS   DATA STORAGE @captain_primate | #mithdd
19. tens of thousands/hundreds of thousands/millions of artifacts 1 archaeological site each artifact with many discreet characteristics thousands of natural & physical samples laser scans with millions of data points RESULT: AN EPIC LOAD OF CRAZY MESSY DATA @captain_primate | #mithdd
20. JAMES DEETZ @captain_primate | #mithdd en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Deetz
21. @captain_primate | #mithdd anthropology.umn.edu/labs/wlnaa/pottery
22. IBM 704 @captain_primate | #mithdd
23. @captain_primate | #mithdd
24. DATA ANALYSIS   DATA STORAGE @captain_primate | #mithdd
25. @captain_primate | #mithdd
26. @captain_primate | #mithdd
27. @captain_primate | #mithdd
28. @captain_primate | #mithdd
29. @captain_primate | #mithdd
30. @captain_primate | #mithdd www.uark.edu/campus-resources/archinfo ARKANSAS ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY
31. Used the General Retrieval and Information Processor for Humanities Oriented Studies (GRIPHOS) system to provide information storage, search, and retrieval infrastructure for AAS site files, the Harrington Caddoan collection (housed in the Museum of the American Indian), AAS faunal collection, and AAS human skeletal collection AAS @captain_primate | #mithdd
32. DATA   DRAFTING  GEOSPATIAL  MULTIMEDIA @captain_primate | #mithdd
33. DESKTOP DIGITAL ARCHAEOLOGY @captain_primate | #mithdd
34. @captain_primate | #mithdd
35. @captain_primate | #mithdd www.viking.ucla.edu/mosfell_project
36. TOTAL STATION @captain_primate | #mithdd
37. DATA   DRAFTING  GEOSPATIAL  MULTIMEDIA @captain_primate | #mithdd
38. @captain_primate | #mithdd www.esri.com/news/arcnews/fall06articles/a-cost-effective.html
39. @captain_primate | #mithdd
40. DATA   DRAFTING  GEOSPATIAL  MULTIMEDIA @captain_primate | #mithdd
41. MULTIMEDIA & CD-ROM ARCHAEOLOGY @captain_primate | #mithdd
42. @captain_primate | #mithdd
43. @captain_primate | #mithdd www.indiana.edu/~origins/teach/Olduvai.html
44. @captain_primate | #mithdd ARCHAEOLOGY DIGITAL HUMANITIES
45. “H” @captain_primate | #mithdd THE IN THE DH
46. STEP BACK, we’re doing science! you heard the man...SCIENCE! @captain_primate | #mithdd
47. @captain_primate | #mithdd vs SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGISTS ARCHAEOLOGISTS
48. @captain_primate | #mithdd
49. POINTS OF INTERSECTION @captain_primate | #mithdd
50. DATA @captain_primate | #mithdd
51. BIG DATA @captain_primate | #mithdd
52. @captain_primate | #mithdd www.opencontext.org | alexandriaarchive.org
53. @captain_primate | #mithdd @up_joad | openarchaeologydata.metajnl.com
54. @captain_primate | #mithdd @up_joad | openarchaeologydata.metajnl.com
55. PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT @captain_primate | #mithdd
56. @captain_primate | #mithdd PUBLIC ARCHAEOLOGY @capmsu | campusarch.msu.edu/
57. COMMUNITY ARCHAEOLOGY @captain_primate | #mithdd paulbelford.blogspot.com/2010/04/community-archaeology-at-hinkshay.html
58. @captain_primate | #mithdd www.lparchaeology.com/prescot/
59. @captain_primate | #mithdd @capmsu | campusarch.msu.edu/
60. 3D CAPTURE & VISUALIZING @captain_primate | #mithdd
61. @captain_primate | #mithdd archive.cyark.org/
62. @captain_primate | #mithdd archive.cyark.org/
63. @captain_primate | #mithdd archive.cyark.org/
64. EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING @captain_primate | #mithdd
65. @captain_primate | #mithdd
66. @captain_primate | #mithdd @capmsu | campusarch.msu.edu/
67. @captain_primate | #mithdd @capmsu | campusarch.msu.edu/
68. #ALT-AC @captain_primate | #mithdd
69. @captain_primate | #mithdd
70. @captain_primate | #mithdd COMPLIANCE ARCHAEOLOGY (CRM) PUBLIC SECTION ARCHAEOLOGY (NPS, SHPO, DOD) MUSEUM ARCHAEOLOGY (ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEYS)
71. THE “BIG TENT” @captain_primate | #mithdd
72. QUESTIONS? FIN Dr. Ethan Watrall Department of Anthropology MATRIX: The Center for the Arts, Letters, & Social Sciences Online Michigan State University @captain_primate