Geospatial Big Data and archaeology: Prospects and problems too great to ignore

MD McCoy - Journal of Archaeological Science, 2017 - Elsevier
As spatial technology has evolved and become integrated in to archaeology, we face a new
set of challenges posed by the sheer size and complexity of data we use and produce. In …

p3k14c, a synthetic global database of archaeological radiocarbon dates

D Bird, L Miranda, M Vander Linden, E Robinson… - Scientific Data, 2022 - nature.com
Archaeologists increasingly use large radiocarbon databases to model prehistoric human
demography (also termed paleo-demography). Numerous independent projects, funded …

Postglacial relative sea-level histories along the eastern Canadian coastline

M Vacchi, SE Engelhart, D Nikitina, EL Ashe… - Quaternary Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
We have assembled a database of Relative Sea Level (RSL) data points from the eastern
coast of Canada from Hudson Bay to the border with the USA. In compiling this database we …

Pre–Younger Dryas megafaunal extirpation at Rancho La Brea linked to fire-driven state shift

FR O'Keefe, RE Dunn, EM Weitzel, MR Waters… - Science, 2023 - science.org
The cause, or causes, of the Pleistocene megafaunal extinctions have been difficult to
establish, in part because poor spatiotemporal resolution in the fossil record hinders …

IsoArcH. eu: An open-access and collaborative isotope database for bioarchaeological samples from the Graeco-Roman world and its margins

K Salesse, R Fernandes, X de Rochefort… - Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper describes IsoArcH, a new web-based database of isotopic data for
bioarchaeological samples from the Graeco-Roman world and its margins. IsoArcH was …

Revisiting the mammoth bone modifications from Bluefish Caves (YT, Canada)

L Bourgeon - Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 2021 - Elsevier
The long-debated mammoth bone “core” and “flake” recovered from the Pleistocene loess
deposit of Bluefish Cave 2 (Yukon Territory, Canada) and previously described by Cinq …

An archaeological radiocarbon database for southern Africa

E Loftus, PJ Mitchell, CB Ramsey - Antiquity, 2019 - cambridge.org
The Southern African Radiocarbon Database (SARD) is a new online, open-access
database of published radiocarbon dates from southern African archaeological contexts …

Prehistoric human response to climate change in the Bonneville Basin, western North America: The Bonneville Estates Rockshelter radiocarbon chronology

T Goebel, B Hockett, D Rhode, K Graf - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
The extent to which long-term climate change has influenced cultural evolution among
hunter-gatherers has long been debated. In the Great Salt Lake desert (USA), a detailed …

Human–vegetation interactions during the Holocene in North America

K Gajewski, B Kriesche, MA Chaput, R Kulik… - Vegetation History and …, 2019 - Springer
Between the initial colonization of North America and the European settlement period,
Indigenous American land use practices shaped North American landscapes and …

Unresolved questions about site formation, provenience, and the impact of natural processes on bone at the Bluefish Caves, Yukon Territory

KE Krasinski, JC Blong - Arctic Anthropology, 2021 - aa.uwpress.org
Recent reanalysis of material excavated from the Bluefish Caves, Yukon Territory claims to
have identified culturally modified bone dating to 24,000 cal. BP, thereby providing evidence …