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Archaeology and the Big Tent of the Digital Hum...

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/

Ethan Watrall

October 04, 2012
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  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. @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
  3. BRIEF HISTORY OF DIGITAL ARCHAEOLOGY   WHY THE SEPARATION?

     LOCI FOR FRUITFUL COMMUNICATION & COLLABORATION @captain_primate | #mithdd
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. QUESTIONS? FIN Dr. Ethan Watrall Department of Anthropology MATRIX: The

    Center for the Arts, Letters, & Social Sciences Online Michigan State University @captain_primate