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Community-driven, free, open and transparent peer-review for #preprints in #Archaeology
http://archaeo.peercommunityin.org
also @PCI_Archaeology@archaeo.social
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Now published in the Peer Community Journal @peercomjournal.bsky.social - had a great experience with them: peer led, free, fast, and open-access. Would recommend! ✨️
pciarchaeology.bsky.social PCI Archaeology @pciarchaeology.bsky.social · Oct 3
1/3 New recommendation: @feliciafricke.bsky.social & Laffoon J. E.‬ (2025) Osteological and Isotopic Analysis of Skeletal Remains at Fort Amsterdam, St. Eustatius, Dutch Caribbean. ver. 3 recommended by @pciarchaeology.bsky.social researchprofiles.ku.dk/en/publicati... 🧪🏺
Figure 1 from the manuscript: location of the Fort Amsterdam site on St. Eustatius, ine the Northern Lesser Antilles.
October 27, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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1/3 New recommendation: Bonhomme, Bouby, Claude, Dham, @murielgrosb.bsky.social, Ivorra, Jeanty, Pagnoux, Pastor, Terral & Evin (2025) CNN and Outline Analyses for Archaeobotanical Studies of Domestication and Subspecific Identification. doi.org/10.1101/2023... @isemevol.bsky.social 🧪🏺🦣
Figure 1 from the manuscript: Schematic description of the GMM and CNN models used. For each taxon, an archetypical individual seed is presented.
October 23, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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1/3 New reco: Bédécarrats, Le Roy, Sayle, Blaizot, Couvrat, Gleize, @guillaume-leduc.bsky.social, Rottier & Goude (2025) Isobiography of the first farmers: effects of age-estimating referential and statistical models on reconstructing infant life. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 🧪🏺🦣
Figure 2 from the manuscript: principle of the alignment of isotope sampling to the dental maturation referential in order to calculate the age at formation of each section and create the isobiography. The example uses the data obtained for the M2 of the individual 8, the Moorrees referential and a GAM model.
October 22, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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1/4 New recommendation: @ehmalatesta.bsky.social et al. (2025) Rethinking Caribbean Archaeology: Towards an ethical position for a truly decolonial practice. ver.3 recommended by @pciarchaeology.bsky.social osf.io/4ge5j
Figure 2 from the recommended article: Topics generated in the OST session on 14th November 2023 and their assignment to six umbrella topics for further discussion by the workshop participants (Figure by Kathrin Nägele).
October 13, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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1/3 New recommendation: @feliciafricke.bsky.social & Laffoon J. E.‬ (2025) Osteological and Isotopic Analysis of Skeletal Remains at Fort Amsterdam, St. Eustatius, Dutch Caribbean. ver. 3 recommended by @pciarchaeology.bsky.social researchprofiles.ku.dk/en/publicati... 🧪🏺
Figure 1 from the manuscript: location of the Fort Amsterdam site on St. Eustatius, ine the Northern Lesser Antilles.
October 3, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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Looking for a place to submit your finished paper? We propose a totally free and transparent initiative! Made by archaeologists for archaeologists. Follow the steps below! 🏺🧪
September 27, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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1/3 New recommendation: Lien-Talks A. G. W. (2025). Heritage Data Governance in Regeneration: Lessons from England's High Street Heritage Action Zones. V3 peer-reviewed and recommended by PCI Archaeology doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
@alientalks.bsky.social
Figure 1 from the manuscript: Map of the HSHAZ locations, with emphasis on the three case studies
September 23, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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1/3 New recommendation: Luo Hongpeng & He Jie (2025). An Exploratory Framework of Land-Sea Movement Model for Early Austronesians Migration. V3 peer-reviewed and recommended by PCI Archaeology doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 🧪🏺
Figure 6 from the manuscript: 4 maps showing the roundtrip paths in summer or winter from (a) Liangzhu to Andarayan, (b) Liangzhu to AnSon, (c) Fengpitou to ManBac, (d) Fengpitou to Andarayan.
September 22, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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peercommunityin.bsky.social
PCI is featured in this Nature News post, which presents some ideas to help fix the peer-review system: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
The peer-review crisis: how to fix an overloaded system
Journals and funders are trying to boost the speed and effectiveness of review processes that are under strain.
www.nature.com
September 16, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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jacoates.bsky.social
Hot off the heels of our what is a preprint video is our what is preprint peer review video!

Featuring @prelights.bsky.social @prereview.bsky.social @reviewcommons.org, @elife.bsky.social & @peercommunityin.bsky.social

#peerreview #preprint #scipub
September 14, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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1/3 New recommendation: Miranda A. Evans‬ (2025) The Demodifier: a tool for screening modification-induced alternate peptide taxonomy in palaeoproteomics. ver.4 recommended by @pciarchaeology.bsky.social doi.org/10.1101/2025... 🧪🏺🦣
September 15, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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The deadline has been extended to October 15 for your CAA2025 papers! Since the proceedings will go through our free and transparent process, do not forget that you *must* share data and scripts if you have some.
Everything is explained here: 2025.caaconference.org/proceedings/
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Proceedings – CAA 2025
2025.caaconference.org
September 15, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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PCI Archaeology was at @isba11.bsky.social in Turin last week! Stay tuned for new #openaccess biomolecular papers soon with full transparency in the editorial process!

Thank you @matthewcollins.bsky.social and Marta Arzarello for sharing our initiative!
@isbarchaeology.bsky.social 🧪🏺🦣
Picture of the roll-up presenteing PCI Archaeology during the congress, and of the ISBA11 tote bag.
September 1, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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Make sure to register! The past webinars have been super interesting, and this one should be no different. 🧪
#openscience #peerreview #academicpublishing
peercommunityin.bsky.social Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · Aug 22
📣 Save the date for the 12th PCI webinar on September 18, 2025, at 4 PM CET!! Dorothy Bishop (@deevybee.bsky.social) will present "Editors matter: How negligent publishers subvert quality control in scientific publishing ". For more details and registration, visit:
PCI Webinar Series - Peer Community In
The PCI webinar series is a series of seminars on research practices, publication practices, evaluation, scientific integrity, meta-research, organised by Peer Community In
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August 25, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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psmaldino.bsky.social
As grant money starts drying up, it's more important than ever not to waste it on paying publishers' open access "article processing fees" when we can host PDFs for free. Tom Morgan and I wrote a paper on this, forthcoming at Science and Public Policy. Accepted draft here: osf.io/preprints/os...
Author-Paid PublicationFees Corrupt Science and Should Be Abandoned Thomas J. H Morgan & Paul E. Smaldino
May 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Also worth reading for other domains than health sciences! 👏
matthieuboisgontier.com Matthieu Boisgontier @matthieuboisgontier.com · Aug 20
Rethinking where and how we publish in health sciences doi.org/10.51224/SRX...
August 21, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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1/3 New recommendation: Kawano, K., @itagakim.bsky.social, Fujita, H., Yamamoto, R., Takeuchi, T. & Ochiai, H. (2025). Statistical image processing (Decorrelation Stretch) and deep learning (CycleGANs) to restore images of faded artworks. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 🏺🧪
Figure 6 from the manuscript: Real and Fake Image of CycleGANs Structure.
August 20, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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August 14, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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August 14, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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1/3 New recommendation: Zachary Batist‬ (2025) Locating Creative Agency in Archaeological Data Work. ver.2 recommended by @pciarchaeology.bsky.social doi.org/10.17613/8eq... @zackbatist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy 🏺🧪🦣
Figure 5 from the manuscript: Two photographs of fieldwork with arrows pointing at details and text in boxes explaining the details of how spatial information is recorded in the field. First photograph depicts a system that measures distance in relation to trench entities. Second photograph depicts a geospatial specialist and a fieldworker determining an object’s position using a digital theodolite.
August 9, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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paastacommunity.bsky.social
Delighted to be bringing you the following PAASTA community-led paper outlining our recommendations for best practices and open science in palaeoproteomics! Congratulations to the authors and for anyone keen to read the paper, it can be found #OpenAccess here: doi.org/10.24072/pcj...
August 6, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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1/4 New recommendation: Marc THOMAS‬ (2025) fabryka: A web application for easily analysing & exploring the fabric of archaeological assemblages. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 🏺🧪
@umr5608traces.bsky.social
Logo of the web application fabryka Figure 1 from the manuscript: fabryka creation scheme and organisation of the article.
August 4, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Coming soon! The proceedings from the @caaint.bsky.social 2023 including all the papers which have gone through our free and transparent peer-review and recommendation process!
Very nice cover!
sidestone.bsky.social Sidestone Press @sidestone.bsky.social · Jul 30
Coming soon: Advances in Digital Archaeology. Proceedings of the 2023 conference Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology – 50 years of synergy

www.sidestone.com/books/advanc...
August 1, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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1/3 New recommendation: Igor P. Bajena (2025). OntPreHer3D: Ontology for Preservation of Cultural Heritage 3D Models. v2 peer-reviewed and recommended by PCI Archaeology doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 🏺🧪
Figure 2 from the manuscript: Diagram illustrating the class hierarchy in OntPreHer3D. Boxes in white colour represent classes from CRMbase (version 7.2.2), in pink from CRMinf (version 1.0), in green from CRMdig (version 3.2.1), in yellow from LRMoo (version 0.9.6) in blue from OntSciDoc3D (version 2.0) and in turquoise new classes from OntPreHer3D (version 1.0.1).
July 24, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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1/4 New recommendation: @ronaldvisser.bsky.social‬, K. Lambers, @aitchis1.bsky.social‬, A. Jutte, D. Rocks-Macqueen, L. vanderKnaap, I. Romanowska, T. Brughmans, J. Linssen, A. Pažout‬(2025) Lessons learned: creating tutorials to teach agent-based modelling to archaeologists. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
Figure 3.1 from the manuscript: Screenshot of lesson 3 in tutorial 1 showing the population dynamics of the Long House Valley in the Artificial Anasazi model created by Axtell et al. (2002). Figure 3.7 from the manuscript: Impression of various workshops (CAA 2023 in Amsterdam and EAA 2023 in Belfast) with participants working.
July 24, 2025 at 8:54 AM