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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Joe Roe
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In the end, we managed to avoid feature degradation in the latest #XRONOS release, aimed at mitigating abuse from bots and AI crawlers:
https://xronos.ch/news/xronos-v121-stability-curation-workflows-and-infrastructure-hardening
We'll see if these performance improvements will be enough. So […]
In the end, we managed to avoid feature degradation in the latest #XRONOS release, aimed at mitigating abuse from bots and AI crawlers:
https://xronos.ch/news/xronos-v121-stability-curation-workflows-and-infrastructure-hardening
We'll see if these performance improvements will be enough. So […]
A paper I co-authored was cited in a textbook about insurance. Not what you expect when you write about #archaeology !
Our annual review of research using #XRONOS in 2025:
https://xronos.ch/news/research-using-xronos-in-2025
#Archaeology #Radiocarbon #OpenData #OpenScience #Science
New #JCAA paper out! Yang, M and Ji, Z. 2026. Decoding Archaeological Spaces: A Space Syntax Study of the Hellenistic Baths in Syracuse. Journal of Computer Applications in #Archaeology, 9(1): 184–197. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/jcaa.197
We've reached the point where we're having to actively degrade the UI and remove useful features of the small scientific database I co-maintain (https://xronos.ch) to try and reduce the extreme load imposed by (unwanted and politely-asked-to-go-away) AI crawler bots. Conversations about new […]
I updated the list layout, let me know what you guys think! :)
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Looking for more good content on the #Fediverse? Find other #Shovelbums with the #Academics of Mastodon #Archaeology List 🏺
https://stark1tty.github.io/Mastodon-Archaeology/
An extensive […]
[Original post on fediscience.org]
Ugh #Bots
The #AI_bubble fuels annoying and costly extraction of #openaccess resources, including #opendata in #archaeology research.
Open Context (https://opencontext.org) is now getting slammed with 3x more traffic than normal.
The financial fallout of […]
[Original post on scholar.social]
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At the ESTER-project we're looking for two #PostDocs and one #PhD student: https://ester-project.org/2026/05/01/the-ester-project-is-hiring/
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If you are interested in demography, biological proxies, modelling and/or Bayesian statistics, have a look! Deadline is May 31st, this sunday! […]
From LB: "In ten days last month, the Wikimedia Foundation fired the longtime lead developer of MediaWiki and disbanded the team whose entire job was to listen to volunteers. Most of the people they fired were union organizers. Wikipedia’s editors are now threatening to strike....
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This is our annual review of scientific research that used data from XRONOS published in 2025. Towards the end of the year, we published our own paper descri...
