This exercise is best suited to those with an interest in public archaeology, the dynamics of ritual behavior, or the archaeology of central China. Users should have a basic understanding of archaeological data types, but little previous experience with archaeology is required.
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The Creativity Clarion Call
Do you love making things? Do you love building good writing habits or exercising your painting skills based on a theme? And do you have an interest in archaeology? If you said “yes” to at least the first question, we’d love to have you test our Creative Series Data Stories!
Our favorite moments of SCA 2023
From 17-19 March 2023, members of the Alexandria Archive Institute / Open Context (AAI/OC) team attended the Society for California Archaeology (SCA) Annual Meeting in Oakland, CA. The team had a booth for Open Context and Paulina co-authored a poster for the conference with Meghan! Beyond that, there were a lot of other cool things that […]
Keep it Creative: The Creative Series and data literacy
For this Digital Data Stories (DDS) Series on Series entry, we’re exploring our Creative Series. Creative endeavors rarely enter into discussions of archaeological data literacy. And yet, the complex skills required to create art make them perfect for the palimpsest of narrative that is archaeology. Due to this, we thought leveraging creativity would be a […]
Open Context Roadmap
While many steps in archaeological data publishing can be automated to speed up the publishing process, the complexity and diversity and messiness of archaeological data makes it really difficult to develop tools that in other systems might be simple…
Writing with Archaeological Inspiration
Mayhaps you’ve had a manuscript marinating? Potentially you’ve been pondering potsherd patterning? Or digging around in your data? Are you wondering how to turn these tidbits into some archaeological writing? Well, have we got some inspiration for you!