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Joe Roe
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Assistant professor of the archaeology of the Middle East at the University of Copenhagen. I use data science and ecological modelling to investigate prehistoric […]

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@ReggieHere @mrundkvist They're not the same thing. A bar chart plots a numeric variable vs. a categorical variable. A histogram visualises the distribution of a single numeric variable.
November 25, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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@petersuber We made something similar for archaeology, which has some overlap with DAFNEE: https://diamond.open-archaeo.info/
💎 Diamond Archaeology
Open venues for publishing, reviewing and curating archaeological research
diamond.open-archaeo.info
November 23, 2025 at 5:10 PM
@Ruth_Mottram Åh, så betaler de for Windows eller macOS, eller hvad? Jeg har aldrig kunnet forstå, hvordan det kan være lovligt for offentlige institutioner at gøre det obligatoriskt for borgere at købe varer fra specifikke firmaer...
October 30, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Beyond collecting data from disparate sources in one place, XRONOS has a variety of semi-automated systems for discovering and addressing data quality issues. For example, we are in the process of ensuring that the c. 12000 taxonomic records we have associated with radiocarbon samples are all […]
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archaeo.social
October 30, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Unfortunately the coverage of these existing databases is highly uneven, reflecting long-standing inequalities in funding and research infrastructure that favours North America, Europe, and to a lesser extent the Middle East and China, over the global south […]

[Original post on archaeo.social]
October 30, 2025 at 2:36 PM
We were able to build XRONOS because, for decades now, archaeologists have been compiling chronological data into (primarily) regional databases, building on an earlier tradition of labs publishing 'date lists' in journals – a practice going back to the Nobel […]

[Original post on archaeo.social]
October 30, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Update: turns out the fancy computer vision and document AI pipeline made a tonne of mistakes. Back to transcribing it by hand...
October 28, 2025 at 11:32 AM
@mattomasini Deadline now extended to 9 November :)
October 24, 2025 at 7:09 AM
@mattomasini * Assuming that CAA doesn't follow its age-old tradition of extending the deadline, of course...
October 21, 2025 at 7:42 AM
@mrundkvist Honestly not a bad description of early colonial archaeology though…
October 17, 2025 at 2:59 PM