rpaleoclim v1.0.0: paleoclimate data in R
PaleoClim (Brown et al. 2018, Scientific Data) is a set of high-resolution paleoclimate surfaces covering the whole world. The data is derived from HadCM3, o...
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R
era 0.3.1: year-based time scales in R
era v0.3.1 is now available on CRAN: install.packages("era") I wrote about the basic concept of the package in my last post. It provides a representation ...
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...
RStudio Server on a Google Compute Engine instance
When I started my PhD I decided to make my trusty fieldwork laptop – a Google Chromebook – my main work computer and try to do all my research in the cloud...
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...
Wikipedia
Graham Hancock is right about pseudoarchaeology on Wikipedia
In a recent interview on a popular podcast, pseudoarchaeologist Graham Hancock had this to say about Wikipedia: [T]he point about Wikipedia is, that’s th...
Wikipedia is the best way to counter pseudoarchaeology
I was glad to see a brief nod to @Wikipedia in a recent Input article on pseudoarchaeology in social media. Its importance in countering pseudoarchaeology an...
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:...
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. Maps are submitted under a Twitt...
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: I spent last week di...