The end of June has been a great time for articles by Alexandria Archive Institute (AAI) staff, with new free to read and share publications in the open access journals Advances in Archaeological Practice and Internet Archaeology.
The May 2026 (Volume 14 – Issue 2) edition of Advances in Archaeological Practice (an open access publication of the Society for American Archaeology) includes a Digital Review about archaeological data literacy. Postdoctoral Researcher Paulina Przystupa used data collected by the Data Literacy Program, a Mellon Foundation and National Endowment for the Humanities project of the AAI, to examine expectations for archaeology education. Check it out here: “Data Literacy in Archaeological Education” (available open access for free reading and sharing).
In addition, issue 71 of Internet Archaeology (an open access online publication hosted by the University of York’s Department of Archaeology) published an essay by Technology Director & Open Context Program Director Eric Kansa. The essay explores how “Artificial Intelligence” (AI) systems based on Large Language Models (LLMs) impact archaeology’s information landscape. After considering how LLMs change the way we find and use information, this essay discusses the need to change incentive systems that motivate archaeological publishing practices. You can read it here: “Archaeology in the AI Era: Demystifying powerful and problematic systems shaping the future of the past” (available open access for free reading and sharing).
