era 0.3.1: year-based time scales in R
era v0.3.1 is now available on CRAN:
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R
Beta release of era
era is a small R package for working with different year numbering systems. There are a few systems in use in archaeology, geology, and other palaeosciences;...
#30DayMapChallenge Day 5: Late Quaternary Precipitation in Southwest Asia
The theme for day 5 of the #30DayMapChallenge is “blue”. My submission is a map of simulated rainfall in Southwest Asia during key climate periods in the Lat...
Lactose intolerance around the world
Most of us in the western world take drinking milk for granted, but the ability to digest lactose into adulthood is actually relatively uncommon from a globa...
Essays
Computational archaeology, digital archaeology, and associated ologies
Archaeologists like to define themselves by their material. Asked “what do you work on?” at a conference, their response will most likely be something like z...
Lactose intolerance around the world
Most of us in the western world take drinking milk for granted, but the ability to digest lactose into adulthood is actually relatively uncommon from a globa...
Does archaeology have a reproducibility crisis?
The reproducibility crisis! It’s shaking the very foundations of the ivory tower. Reportedly the psychology wing is already in rubble. Medical researchers ar...
Not so civilised
The way the word ‘civilisation’ is bandied about in popular writing about ancient history has always bugged me. Most archaeologists must be well aware of how...
30DayMapChallenge
#30DayMapChallenge Day 5: Late Quaternary Precipitation in Southwest Asia
The theme for day 5 of the #30DayMapChallenge is “blue”. My submission is a map of simulated rainfall in Southwest Asia during key climate periods in the Lat...
#30DayMapChallenge 2020
The #30DayMapChallenge is an event challenging cartographers to make a map on a given theme on each day in November 2020.
Fieldwork
Excavating at Kharaneh IV
I wrote a brief guest post for the Kharaneh IV blog, an Epipalaeolithic site in Jordan where I’ve been working the last few weeks:
Wikipedia
Trowelblazers on Wikipedia: Margaret Ursula Jones
Wikipedia is the world’s most widely read reference work but it has a well known systematic bias towards the interests of affluent, Western, young geeky men:...