Curious how we picked the books for Of Mycenaean Men? In this article, we explain the development of that open educational resource (OER) and how we found the books for it. We hope learning about our process helps folks who like popular science and nonfiction find more archaeological data literacy related works for themselves.
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How to find awesome archaeological data literacy related comics
Have you ever wanted to use comics to learn about archaeology but weren’t sure how? Here, we explain where to start by describing the development of Tome Reader, an open educational resource (OER) that uses comics to cultivate archaeological data literacy.
New articles by AAI staff
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.Â
AAI & Open Context – Highlights from 2025
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Open Context in 2025 and the Evolving AI Ecosystem
Open Context has grown into one of the world’s largest open access databases of archaeological data. It now houses nearly 2.4 million records from over 200 data publications, including 215,000 images, maps, documents, 3D models, and GIS layers. This growth has required us to make important performance improvements so that the user interface has acceptable […]
Four-week Pilot Practicum Distills Lessons from AAI’s Data Literacy Program
The AAI’s Data Literacy Program (DLP) had a busy year! Check out this data set that lists all the Digital Data Stories, invited workshops, videos, and other works that the program developed since its establishment in 2020. In 2025, we shared more educational resources in our Data Story Shorts collection, released an interview Eric Kansa […]
