Landscape bundling of ceremonial Earthworks: Incorporating ethnohistoric and contemporary Indigenous ontologies to revive Great Lakes archaeological legacy datasets

Howey, Meghan; Burg, Marieka Brouwer

doi:10.1016/j.jaa.2021.101272

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“…Archaeologists have repeatedly emphasized that legacy datasets are an immense heritage resource (Lindsay and Williams-Dean 1980; Society for American Archaeology 1996; Sullivan and Childs 2003). However, it was not until the COVID-19 pandemic that the discipline took full advantage of this corpus of information (Howey and Brouwer Burg 2021). The pandemic forced many researchers to abandon field data collection plans for the summers of 2020 and 2021.…”

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Creating a Software Methodology to Analyze and Preserve Archaeological Legacy Data

Fletcher

2023

Adv. archaeol. pract.

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Software now allows archaeologists to document excavations in more detail than ever before through rich, born-digital datasets. In comparison, paper documentation of past excavations (a valuable corpus of legacy data) is prohibitively difficult to work with. This pilot study explores creating custom software to digitize paper field notes from the 1970s excavations of the Gulkana site into machine-readable text and maps to be compatible with born-digital data from subsequent excavations in the 1990s. This site, located in Alaska's Copper River Basin, is important to archaeological understanding of metalworking innovation by precontact Northern Dene people, but is underrepresented in the literature because no comprehensive map of the site exists. The process and results of digitizing this corpus are presented in hopes of aiding similar efforts by other researchers.

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confidence: 99%