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joeroe

@joeroe@archaeo.social

Researcher in computational archaeology at https://mastodon.online/@unibern. https://archaeo.social admin. Wikipedian.

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zackbatist, to random
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One great unintended side-effect of being at is that @joeroe and I found time to make some improvements to open-archaeo. Now it's much easier to update the site after submitting a pull request containing a new or updated record, thanks to the magic of github actions and r (but as always, you can also just message us if you have something you wanna add to the list too)

https://open-archaeo.info/
https://github.com/zackbatist/open-archaeo/

joeroe,
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@zackbatist thanks to @ClemensSchmid for shaming us into action

joeroe,
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@ClemensSchmid @zackbatist

joeroe, to Wikipedia
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Piergiovanna Grossi (Wikimedia Italia) at reports that creating articles on cultural heritage sites in Italy increased visitor numbers by 23% (tracked over a seven year period).

joeroe, to random
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I'm on the way to Turin for 2023. Only four hours on the fast train from Bern, so I didn't even have to get up early!

Anybody else going there in person?

barneyharris, to python
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trying to get more serious around in research -- can any folk chip in?

I use (first mistake, perhaps) and primarily R for my research.

Per project, I was thinking:

  1. Create micromamba environment
  2. Install base R
  3. Install renv
  4. Install R packages using renv + micromamba for dependencies (e.g. gdal)
  5. Do research
  6. Use exported micromamba env and renv lock files to rebuild the overall env in a linux Docker image
    ...
joeroe,
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@barneyharris Why not just use a macOS container? The important thing is that people can recreate your environment, and Mac is definitely a lot better than that other Linux alternative!

joeroe, to random
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I just finished a peer review for https://f1000research.com, which was... surprisingly pleasant. Nice easy to use interface, focus on written feedback instead of checkboxes, everything's open and citeable, and you're explicitly asked not to consider novelty or importance.

I see it's owned by one of the big publishers though, so I'm sure I'm missing a dark secret...

joeroe,
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Could also just be that the paper was really good and I didn't have to be mean.

datadryad, to random

We’re recruiting! Dryad is looking for a full-time to join our team. Fully remote, but fully supported. If you have a passion for research data quality and open data publication, then take a look:

https://blog.datadryad.org/jobs/

joeroe,
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@datadryad Cool position! Maybe worth clarifying that "fully remote" only applies to residents of five specific US states, though?

joeroe, to Archaeology
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An AI-written journal of history:

https://codex.yubetsu.com/journal/history/1/4/1

...which, interestingly, appears to actually be a journal of prehistoric archaeology. A bias in the training dataset? Or is there something about prehistory that makes it easier to produce generative nonsense?

ktozdogan, to Archaeology

Our new preprint is online! 📣
An opinion paper where we discuss the potential of for answering key questions. 🧬
@ezgi

https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-3568244/v1

joeroe,
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@ktozdogan @ezgi Thanks for this, it really helped me get my head around sedaDNA as an interested-but-clueless environmental archaeologist.

Regarding your point about, "clean sampling strategies" – do you see it being possible for field archaeologists to do this kind of sampling themselves, in the future? Even if they're working in remote locations?

joeroe, to random
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No, Gunung Padang is not a Stone Age pyramid. A comprehensive debunking by Andre Costopoulos:

https://archeothoughts.wordpress.com/2023/11/08/there-is-no-new-evidence-that-gunung-padang-is-a-24000-year-old-pyramid/

joeroe,
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I particularly appreciated this insight into how the media's misplaced faith in a broken system feeds :

> Articles like this one [highlights] the weakness of our current system of narrow pre-publication peer review by a few scholars, versus the strength of broad, post-publication review by the entire community.
>
> The current system has trained the media to run uncritically with claims that appear in journals [...] It’s in a journal, so it must be reliable, right?

joeroe,
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@failedLyndonLaRouchite Perhaps surprisingly there's quite a lot of evidence that peer review, in any form, does absolutely nothing to improve the quality of papers: https://www.experimental-history.com/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-peer-review

EAZ_journal, to random German
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New issue of the Forum Kritische Archäologie explores the compatibility of activism with scientific rigor in archaeology.

https://www.kritischearchaeologie.de/aktuelle_ausgabe.php

joeroe,
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@EAZ_journal Wow, what a great set of papers!

FlintDibble, to random
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I'm starting to think most pseudoarchaeology begins as bad archaeology published by non-archaeologists who don't have training or understanding of archaeological context

Chemists, geologists, geographers, mathematicians, philosophers, religious historians, biologists, etc

joeroe,
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@FlintDibble I'm more cynical, I think that most pseudoarchaeology begins as bad archaeology published by careless or headline-grabbing archaeologists :/

joeroe,
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@FlintDibble Post inspired by this Stone Age pyramid, by any chance? https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/arp.1912

joeroe, to Archaeology
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The changing stories we tell about the of West Asia, summed up in one Ngram!

Tell Abu Hureyra was a poster child for new scientific methods when it was excavated in the 70s, and still has some of the earliest evidence of plant domestication.

Ian Hodder chose Çatalhöyük to put into practice his model of a postmodern social archaeology in 1993, and according to this graph it overtook Abu Hureyra in popular consciousness in 2007.

(A thread...)

joeroe, (edited )
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Göbekli Tepe has rapidly gained attention since popular media proclaimed it the "world's first temple" in 2008, but as of 2019 (when Google's Ngram data stops), it hadn't quite dethroned Çatalhöyük as the best-known known Neolithic site in the region.

joeroe,
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...in English-language literature, that is. In French, Çatalhöyük didn't manage to edge out Abu Hureyra until after both were overshadowed by Göbekli Tepe. The Germans never bothered much with either of the two Anglophone-led excavations, but Göbekli Tepe was a sensation from the start.

Disclaimer: Google Ngrams are a black box, heavily affected by what is and isn't in the Google Books corpus, as well as variations in spelling etc. None of this should be taken too seriously.

N-gram graph showing the relative occurrence of the site names "Tell Abu Hureyra", "Çatalhöyük" and "Göbekli Tepe" in the German Google Books corpus from 1990 to 2019. Tell Abu Hureyra and Çatalhöyük both hover just above zero for the whole period. Göbekli Tepe is first mentions around 1993 and thereafter rises rapidly in popularity, exponentially so after around 2010.

joeroe,
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@ArchaeoIain If used carefully (it's ridiculously easy to produce spurious patterns by mispelling things or over- or under-smoothing) I think they're on okay first estimate. You can't beat Google Books for the shear size of its corpus. But I'd never use it in a publication, for example.

mrundkvist, to random Swedish
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@zackbatist Check out my archaeological fieldwork report archive. https://archive.org/details/

joeroe,
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@zackbatist @mrundkvist It looks like it. Looking into it now.

joeroe,
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@zackbatist @mrundkvist Okay, found the problem. The queue of jobs the server has to do had gotten backlogged and it prioritises sending statuses out over reading them in.

They're coming through again now. It will take a bit of time to catch up. Thanks for bringing it to our attention @mrundkvist.

stefanlaser, to fediverse
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Is anyone using @bookwyrm for academic ?

Bookwyrm might be a good place to collect all kinds of academic reviews in an open space aka the . One could even automate things, or invite for review texts through Mastodon or email (with a Python script translating the different categories). Maybe the academic instance would need a slightly different design, without ratings, and cover images being less prominent. Yet there's potential.

joeroe,
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@stefanlaser @bookwyrm Could be something to try under the https://about.archaeo.social umbrella:

https://joinbookwyrm.com/

joeroe, to fediverse
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Today is your last chance to submit a paper proposal for one of the six panels at this year's in Turin:

  1. in archaeology
  2. Archaeology in the and the future of scholarly social media
  3. Fostering Solutions in Archaeology
  4. Virtual Reconstruction with
  5. 3D scanning of small finds
  6. Data Integration and Communication Platforms

https://www.archeofoss.org/2023/call-for-papers.html

KFuentesGeorge, (edited ) to Archaeology

My "favourite" thing about this study is the part where achaeologists who found hunting tools/weapons in women's graves assumed they were kitchen implements.

Like, "well Hans, in this woman's grave, we found what inscriptions at the time have named the Flail of Vengeance. As of right now, we are not sure to what culinary task this tool was turned, but conjecture that it was possibly the preparation of small pies."

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/07/01/1184749528/men-are-hunters-women-are-gatherers-that-was-the-assumption-a-new-study-upends-i

joeroe,
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@afreytes @blogdiva @KFuentesGeorge This is where that theory comes from, if your interested: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/204491, https://web.archive.org/web/20170810082947/https://mymission.lamission.edu/userdata/schustm/docs/VenusFigurines-WomensPerspective_HIGHLIGHTED.pdf

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