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Conference programme
Get ready to embark on a journey through time with this year's big historical data conference programme
Conference programme
Wednesday, 22 November
| 8:45-9:00 | Welcome address | ||
| 9:00-10:30 | Session 1: Big Databases: How large-scale archives can boost archaeological research I
Session organisers: Martina Farese, Giulia Formichella, and Noemi Mantile |
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| 1-1 | Ricardo Fernandes | The Pandora Initiative: promoting fairer data collaboration | |
| 1-2 | Martina Farese | From the Neolithic to the Middle Ages: a big data view of foodways in ancient Italy | |
| 1-3 | Antonio Caruso | STARC OSTEOARCH: An open access resource for recording and sharing human osteoarchaeological data | |
| 1-4 | Claire Ebert | Tracking human diet and migration using the Caribbean and Mesoamerica Biogeochemical Isotope Overview (CAMBIO) | |
| 1-5 | Natalia Riabogina | Building archaeobotanical and archaeozoological database in the BIAD: structure, creation experience and comparative analysis perspectives | |
| 1-6 | Victor Yan Kin Lee | Bridging human paleogenetics and archaeology: problems with existing practices and prospects for overcoming them | |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee break | ||
| 11:00-12:30 | Session 1. Big Databases: How large-scale archives can boost archaeological research II
Session organisers: Martina Farese, Giulia Formichella, and Noemi Mantile |
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| 1-7 | Andrew Kandel | The ROAD Database as a Research Tool for Exploring Human Evolution | |
| 1-8 | Felix Riede | Cultural evolutionary trends as revealed by a novel, expert-sourced dataset on lithic technology, toolkits, and artefact shapes for the Final Palaeolithic/earliest Mesolithic of Europe (15-11ka BP) | |
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David Laguna-Palma | An open and interdisciplinary approach to modelling movement along the ancient Lybian Sea | |
| 1-10 | Efthymia Nikita | MetaMobility Databases: Promoting Greco-Roman bioarchaeology | |
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Antonio Campus | Big Archaeological (Legacy) Data. Collection, dissemination and reuse for large scale analysis | |
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Maite I. Garcia-Collado | Exploring large-scale historical processes using IsoIberMed: a new isotope database for bioarchaeological samples from Medieval Iberia | |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch | ||
| 13:30-14:00 | Session 1: Big Databases: How large-scale archives can boost archaeological research III
Session organisers: Martina Farese, Giulia Formichella, and Noemi Mantile |
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| 1-13 | Sean Hixon | Presenting a compilation of isotopic data from Madagascar | |
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Carlo Cocozza | The IsoMemo Initiative: Enhancing archaeological and historical research through isotope databases | |
| 14:00-15:00 | Session 2. Big Zooarchaeological Data: Challenges and potentials for multi-scalar analysis across millenia I
Session organisers: Angela Trentacoste, Jesse Wolfhagen, and Sarah Whitcher Kansa |
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Sarah Whitcher Kansa | From small to big data in zooarchaeology | |
| 2-2 | Kitty Emery | Crosswalking, linking, and verbatim interpretations: adventures in legacy zooarchaeological biodiversity open data publishing | |
| 2-3 | Canan Çakırlar | Cross-disciplinary reuse potential of big zooarchaeology data: What do we need? | |
| 2-4 | David Orton | Assessing approaches to chronological uncertainty in large-scale zooarchaeological data synthesis | |
| 15:00-15:30 | Coffee break | ||
| 15:30-16:30 | Session 2. Big Zooarchaeological Data: Challenges and potentials for multi-scalar analysis across millenia II
Session organisers: Angela Trentacoste, Jesse Wolfhagen, and Sarah Whitcher Kansa |
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| 2-5 | Matthew Hill Jr. | Tracking long-term subsistence among the Native North American Great Plains hunters | |
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Max Price | Wool they won’t they: Combing the zooarchaeological evidence for wool production in Northern Mesopotamia c. 4500-1500 cal. BC | |
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Anthony King | The RomAniDat network: a zooarchaeological Big Data initiative for the ancient Roman world | |
| 2-8 | Roberto Ragno | Understanding variation in zooarchaeological NISP data: Bayesian betabinomial models for Italian contexts in the 1st millennium CE | |
Thursday, 23 November
| 9:00-10:30 | Session 3: Environments of big cultural heritage data integration I
Session organisers: Michael Fisher and Dovydas Jurkenas |
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| 3-1 | Michael Fisher | Heritage-environment interaction: Theorising Big (Palaeo)Data integration across the nature-culture divide | |
| 3-2 | Julian Richards | ARIADNE: aggregating archaeological datasets at an international scale | |
| 3-3 | Pablo Barruezo-Vaquero | Transdisciplinary data integration into a computational ontology: some reflections from the DataARC Project on modelling human–non-human entanglements | |
| 3-4 | Thomas Huet
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“Shared heritage”: management and integration of cultural heritage data across Arches-based platforms in the Global South | |
| 3-5 | Jonas Gregorio de Souza | Mapping the archaeological Pre-Columbian heritage in South America | |
| 3-6 | MAHSA and MAEASaM Teams | Modelling heritage information in two diverse regions: reflections on the integration of heterogeneous big data from the MAHSA and MAEASaM projects | |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee break | ||
| 11:00-11:30 | Session 3. Environments of big cultural heritage data integration II
Session organisers: Michael Fisher and Dovydas Jurkenas |
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| 3-7 | Dovydas Jurkenas
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Hordes of Data: Multilayered documentation and collection of archaeological heritage and environmental data across the Mongolian landscape | |
| 3-8 | Ankhsanaa Ganbold
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Creating the Mongolia cultural heritage database (immovable historical and cultural heritage) | |
| 11:30-12:30 | Session 4. Archaeological time-series: The quest for robust 14C-dated proxies for the intensity of prehistoric activity
Session organisers: John Meadows and Peer Kröger |
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| 4-1 | Jan Kolar | Large radiocarbon datasets in relation to archaeological context and metadata | |
| 4-2 | Fiona Laviano | Building a database of dated Neanderthal fossil remains to estimate the spatiotemporal pattern of Neanderthal extirpation | |
| 4-3 | Jiyoung Park | Investigating long-term population dynamics in the Han River Basin using radiocarbon dating | |
| 4-4 | Thomas Huet | NeoNet, an app for radiocarbon modelling of the Late Mesolithic / Early Neolithic transition in South-Central and South-Western Europe | |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch and group photo | ||
| 13:30-14:30 | Session 5: Data and people in interaction: Network analysis for everyone
Session organisers: Vera Klontza and Barbora Ruffíni |
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| 5-1 | Tamás Czuppon
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Hidden information or misuse? Data and network analysis on burial customs (6-9 c. AD) | |
| 5-2 | Freg J. Stokes | Mapping networks of capital and resistance in tropical South America | |
| 5-3 | Britt Davis | Neutron activation analysis and networks: Possibilities and constraints | |
| 5-4 | Christopher Carleton | ‘Symbolic scaling’ in ancient and contemporary cities | |
| 14:30-15:00 | Session 6. Leveraging Big Data, GIS, and machine learning in remote sensing I
Session organisers: Manuel Peters and Amina Jambajantsan |
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| 6-1 | MAESaM Team
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An experiment with automated detection of diverse archaeological features in an African context using deep-learning and free satellite multispectral imagery | |
| 6-2 | Ahmed Mahmoud
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Automated change detection monitoring of archaeological sites using machine learning and Google Earth Engine | |
| 15:00-15:30 | Coffee break | ||
| 15:30-16:00 | Session 6. Leveraging Big Data, GIS, and machine learning in remote sensing II
Session organisers: Manuel J. H. Peters and Amina Jambajantsan |
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| 6-3 | Manuel J. H. Peters
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Multi-scale automated feature detection in the Argentinean Andes: A comparative analysis of satellite and UAV | |
| 6-4 | David Stott | Positive false positives: Searching for annular landforms in Northern Europe | |
| 16:00-17:45 | Session 7. AI for historical and archaeological Big Data analysis II
Session organiser: Jochen Büttner |
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| 7-1 | Jakob Hauser
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Enhancing the Seshat databank: A computationally readable mapping of historical facts to scholarly references | |
| 7-2 | Hassan El-Hajj | Prompt me a dataset: Large-scale ML dataset creation in the humanities | |
| 7-3 | Mathieu Aubry | Discovering and analyzing patterns in large historical image databases | |
| 7-4 | Jambajantsan Amina | Leveraging satellite imagery and Deep Learning in Mongolian archaeology | |
| 7-5 | Jianyin Roachell | Deep Learning and Bayesian analysis of historical time series data | |
| 7-6 | Adam Izdebski | Applying Bayesian machine learning to causality modelling in historical social-ecological systems: case studies from early modern Greece and Poland | |
| 7-7 | Raphael Schlattmann | Trajectories of change: Using text embeddings to track knowledge evolution | |
| 18:00-19:00 | Dinner | ||
| 19:00-19:30 | Plenary | ||
Friday, November 24
| 9:00-10:30 | Session 8: Insights from reusing large prehistoric and interdisciplinary databases
Session organisers: Christian Sommer, Angela Bruch, Nicholas Conrad, Christine Hertler, Miriam N. Haidle, Volker Hochschild, Zara Kanaeva, Andrew Kandel, and the ROCEEH Team |
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| 8-1 | Samantha Scott Reiter | Columns and rows: publishing, preparing, harmonizing and preserving protocols, guidelines and resources from the Big Interdisciplinary Archaeological Database | |
| 8-2 | Anaïs Vignoles | Shortcomings related to archaeological bibliographic databases used for macro-scale modeling: the SIGMENT database for estimating Middle and Recent Gravettian lithic technical tradition distributions in Western Europe | |
| 8-3 | Giulia Marciani | Beyond labels. Exploring patterns of formal description of lithic variability in Late Pleistocene technologies | |
| 8-4 | Rimtautas Dapschauskas | Using big data to gain new insights about large-scale developments of human behavioral evolution: ROAD and Middle Stone Age ochre use | |
| 8-5 | Christian Sommer | Mapping archaeological cultures and periods with network cartography | |
| 8-6 | Jesús Rodríguez | Modelling the adaptations of hominins to climate in Europe from MIS14 to MIS11 | |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee break | ||
| 11:00-12:30 | Session 9. Palaeoclimatic and palaeoenvironmental databases: Exploring the dynamics of human-environmental systems
Session organiser: Achim Brauer |
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| 9-1 | Pedro Andrade
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Long-term arsenic exposure evidence in northern Chile revealed through analysis of compiled osteological and elemental data | |
| 9-2 | Michele Abballe
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Modelling the evolution of the hinterland of Ravenna: human-environment relationships in an extremely dynamic alluvial landscape | |
| 9-3 | Michela Leonardi
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Palaeoecology made easy: pastclim and tidysdm, two new R packages to make the best use of palaeo big data | |
| 9-4 | Margherita Colucci | A case study: modelling human-malaria coevolution through time using paleoclimatic and palaeoenvironmental databases | |
| 9-5 | Ümit Cevher Elmas | Quantity over quality? Unraveling the impact of chronological uncertainties in paleoenvironmental databases: A case study from Lake Burdur | |
| 9-6 | Thomas Giesecke
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The Neotoma Palaeoecology Database as a research tool to assess human landscape interactions during the Quaternary | |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch | ||
| 13:30-15:00 | Session 10: History unleashed: Harnessing the knowledge stored in historical documents
Session organisers: Adam Izdebski and Carlo Cocozza |
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| 10-1 | Luke Anderson-Trocmé | Unraveling French Canadian ancestry: An interplay of genetics, genealogies, and geography | |
| 10-2 | David Max Findley
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Harmonizing big datasets: PANTROPOCENE, Land use modelling, and the historical tropics | |
| 10-3 | Daniel Baránek | From historical sources to Wikibase | |
| 10-4 | Etienne Wasmer | A cross-verified database of locations visited by notable individuals | |
| 10-5 | Clément Gorin | A convolutional network approach to mining historical map data | |
| 10-6 | Sonia Medina Gordo
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[POSTER] Script-based automation practices: some experiences for managing early medieval society through written evidence | |
| 15:00-15:30 | Coffee break | ||
| 15:30-16:45 | Session 11. Modelling expansions in South America: Integrating archaeology and linguistics
Session organisers: Fabrício Ferraz Gerardi and Bruno de Souza Barreto |
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| 11-1 | Paul Heggarty
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Combining archaeology, language and genetics into a single human (pre)history through time, space, and ecology | |
| 11-2 | Rafael de Almeida Lopes | Using spatial and chronological modelling to understand the Polychrome Tradition Expansion in Central Amazon | |
| 11-3 | Bruno de Souza Barreto | Demic diffusion, cultural transmission and change: assessing the spread of the Koriabo pottery style as an archaeological correlate of the Cariban-languages expansions in northern Amazonia | |
| 11-4 | Fabrício Ferraz Gerardi | A phylogenetic study of the Cariban language family | |
| 11-5 | Kathrin Nägele | Beyond broad strokes – the future of ancient DNA in the Americas
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| 16:45-17:00 | Closing remarks | ||
Saturday, November 25
| 10:00-12:00 | Talk: A tour into the history of Jena |
