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We're talking about Chacoan road networks again! A few years ago we interviewed Sean Field. He was doing research on the road networks coming into and out of Chaco Canyon. Sean Field is at it again with another paper but this time he's using Lidar to analyze road profiles. It's an innovative technique and Chris and Paul discuss it on this week's show.

Transcripts

For rough transcripts of this episode go to https://www.archpodnet.com/archaeotech/208

Links

* "Lidar Derived Road Profiles" - Advances in Archaeological Practice: https://doi.org/10.1017/aap.2022.31
* Archaeotech 117 with Sean Field: https://www.archpodnet.com/archaeotech/117

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* Chris Webster Twitter: @archeowebby [http://www.twitter.com/archeowebby]Email: chris@archaeologypodcastnetwork.com
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We talk to Dr. Markus Eberl about his team's use of a particle scanner to analyze micro-debitage. They used machine learning to analyze the data set and tried to learn more about early life than we could otherwise.

Transcripts

For rough transcripts of this episode go to https://www.archpodnet.com/archaeotech/207

Links

* Machine Learning–Based Identification of Lithic Microdebitage [https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/advances-in-archaeological-practice/article/machine-learningbased-identification-of-lithic-microdebitage/822130822CF09C9DC0CA513472A93255?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=bookmark]

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Artificial Intelligence programs like ChatGPT and Google's "Bard" seem to be the hot topic of conversation these days. They're being used to write papers, finish reports, and reply to emails, among other thing. But, what do they really know? Chris asks ChatGPT and Bard what they know about topics related to digital archaeology on today's episode.

Watch this on YouTube: https://youtu.be/c86slnkEcWQ

Links

* ChatGPT: https://openai.com [https://openai.com/]
* Murf: https://murf.ai [https://murf.ai/]
* Play.HT [http://play.ht/]: https://play.ht [https://play.ht/]

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* Chris Webster
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Today we talk about gaming and archaeology, but, in a very different way than I've hear done in the past. Our guests, Andrew Reinhard and Sara Zaia have written an article for Advances in Archaeological Practice about doing photogrammetry and mapping in a gaming space and bringing that into a GIS. It's step one of a bigger plan and they tell us all about it.

Transcripts

For rough transcripts of this episode go to https://www.archpodnet.com/archaeotech/205

Links

* Andrew Reinhard
My Archaeogaming book: https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/ReinhardArchaeogaming
The Archaeogaming Mastodon account: https://archaeo.social/@archaeogaming
* Sara Zaia
My academia.edu [http://academia.edu/] page https://harvard-yenching.academia.edu/SaraZaia/
My scholar page https://scholar.harvard.edu/sarazaia

Contact

* Chris Webster
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* Paul Zimmerman
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While Paul is out we've got Rachel Roden guest co-hosting the show today. She's a co-host of The Archaeology Show with Chris. Today, they talk about three current news articles all referencing using AI in an archaeological context. AI is going to change the world and archaeology won't escape the revolution.

Links

* Segment 1
AI identifies 3 more 'Nazca Lines' figures in Peru
[https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/ai-identifies-3-more-nazca-lines-figures-in-peru]Accelerating the discovery of new Nasca geoglyphs using deep learning [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440323000559?via%3Dihub]
* Segment 2
Researchers Use AI to Read Ancient Mesopotamian Texts
[https://www.archaeology.org/news/11449-230518-artificial-intelligence-cuneiform]Translating Akkadian to English with neural machine translation  [https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad096]
* Segment 3
A human–AI collaboration workflow for archaeological sites detection
[https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-36015-5]AI spots Mesopotamian archaeological sites in satellite images
[https://www.newscientist.com/article/2360350-ai-spots-mesopotamian-archaeological-sites-in-satellite-images/]ARCHAEOLOGISTS USE AI TO IDENTIFY NEW ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES IN MESOPOTAMIA [https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/06/archaeologists-use-ai-to-identify-new-archaeological-sites-in-mesopotamia/147592]

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On episode 189 we talked to a guest about a project in Louisiana where, as an aspect of survey, they utilized dogs to find an historic Civil War-era cemetery. Well, on today's show, we have the gentleman that was hired for that job, Paul Martin, to talk about how he uses dogs in his work.

Transcripts

For rough transcripts of this episode go to https://www.archpodnet.com/archaeotech/203

Links

* ArchaeoTech 189 - Using Specialized Dogs to Find Historic Burials [https://www.archpodnet.com/archaeotech/189]
* Martin Archaeological Consulting [https://www.martinarchaeology.com/]

Contact

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