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Join the AIA for a fascinating evening with Mark Aldenderfer presenting "Archaeology and the Tibetan/Himalayan Afterlife" This presentation was given live at 8pm Eastern/on April 9, 2025. Description: Although historians and Tibetologists since the early 20th century have collected and interpreted religious documents describing in general terms rituals of death and safe passage to the afterlife among the early peoples of the Himalayas, the archaeological record offered little insight into them. But recent research by archaeologists across the region have made extraordinary discoveries that both challenge and corroborate current understandings as well as identifying previously unknown traditions for both commoners and kings.

Join the AIA as Rosemary Joyce (University of California, Berkeley) presents Complex Society Without Rulers. This lecture was given live at 8pm Eastern on March 19, 2025. Description: For many people, the word "archaeology" conjures up images monuments, traces of the lives of powerful rulers who can seem to be inevitable parts of any urban, agricultural society. But there are other stories archaeology can tell about societies where there is no apparent ruler, but where many of the hallmarks of "complex society" are found. This lecture explores one such society, the ancient Ulúa culture of northern Honduras, neighbors to Classic Maya states where people used religion to reinforce social relations in a society of wealthy farmers who enjoyed artworks of extraordinary beauty.

Society Sunday 2025 - March 9, 2025 Find your local AIA Society and see what they're up to: https://www.archaeological.org/programs/societies/find/ Join us as the AIA Societies Committee presents a virtual presentation and Q&A with Iyaxel Cojtí Ren presenting “Communal Government and Forms of Dependency in the K'iche' State” This presentation was be given live at 1pm Eastern on March 9, 2025. In the Maya highlands during the Late Postclassic period (1250-1524 CE), the K'iche' created an expansive state able to subdue various nations and form a network of dependent polities. Join archaeologist Iyaxel Cojtí Ren as she explains how the key to this lies in the K'iche' forms of local community organization and how they were integrated into the larger K'iche' political unit. Learn about the most common forms of community organization: chinamit and amaq'. Their members practiced communal solidarity and forms of communal government, which were vital for reproduction, problem-solving, and territorial defense. The K'iche' state’s strength resulted from incorporating these communities, chinamit and amaq', and adopting some of their values and forms of government. For example, in the Colonial-period K'iche' texts, the term tzuq “to sustain, to feed” appears frequently to describe the relationship of mutual dependence that existed between rulers and K’iche’ communities. This means that the rulers also had obligations to take care of the population under their authority. And while reciprocity between rulers and those they ruled was far from equal, the communal form of government employed by the K'iche' allowed representatives of the people to exert sufficient influence to prevent oppressive rulers and defend the people’s interests.

Join the AIA as Zainab Bahrani (Columbia University) presents Towards an Archaeology of Preservation. This lecture was given live at 8pm Eastern on February 26, 2025. Description: The history of archaeology as a scientific discipline has received a great deal of attention in recent years. As a result of extensive archival research and the reading of archives against the grain, alternative or indigenous archaeologies and earlier forms of relationships to the past—such as antiquarianism—have also begun to receive more serious scholarly attention. Since the 1990s, Zainab Bahrani’s scholarship has contributed to these historical directions in archaeology. She now augments archival and theoretical work with fieldwork, presenting some of the archaeological evidence of millennia of preservation and conservation practices in the landscape of Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan. Bio: Zainab Bahrani is the Edith Porada Professor of Art History and Archaeology and Chair of the Department of Art History at Columbia University. She writes on ancient art and philosophical aesthetics, the history and politics of archaeology, collecting and the modernist and contemporary art and architecture of Iraq. She has also published widely on the destruction of historical heritage in war and occupation. Dr. Bahrani directs the Mapping Mesopotamian Monuments projects to document and conserve historical architecture and rock reliefs in Iraqi Kurdistan, northern Iraq, and southeastern Turkey. Since 2019 she has been the Director of the Bahdinan-Mosul Gate conservation project in Amadiya/Amedi in Iraqi Kurdistan. Dr. Bahrani is the author of several books including Women of Babylon: Gender and Representation in Mesopotamia (Routledge, 2001), The Graven Image: Representation in Babylonia and Assyria (University of Pennsylvania, 2003), Rituals of War (Zone/MIT, 2008) which won the American Historical Association Prize, and The Infinite Image: Art, Time and the Aesthetic Dimension in Antiquity (Reaktion/University of Chicago, 2014) which won the Lionel Trilling Prize, and Mesopotamia: Art and Architecture (Thames and Hudson, 2018). She is also editor and co-author of volumes written to accompany her co-curated exhibitions: Scramble for the Past: A Story of Archaeology in the Ottoman Empire 1753-1914 (Istanbul, 2011) and Modernism and Iraq (New York, 2009). Her new book is, War Essays, UCL Press, 2025. Distinctions include election to the Slade Professorship at Oxford, and awards form the Getty Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, a 2003 Guggenheim, and a 2019 Carnegie award. In 2020 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

Join the AIA as Uzma Rizvi (Pratt Institute) presents Caring for MohenjoDaro Description: How do we understand care in the ancient world? This talk will focus on current archaeological research conducted in the city of MohenjoDaro (a World Heritage Site) located in contemporary Pakistan (Sindh Province). Archaeological excavations at MohenjoDaro document hundreds of dwelling-houses and large buildings built along streets and lanes oriented towards cardinal points, which index an architectural sophistication of a well-planned city. This talk will focus on the neighborhood of DK-G South, and look for indicators of care in the many ways the ancient inhabitants maintained their lived environment over generations. Bio: Uzma Z. Rizvi is Professor of Anthropology and Urban Studies at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY; and Visiting Faculty in the Department of Archaeology, Shah Abdul Latif University, Khairpur, Pakistan. Dr. Rizvi holds degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and Bryn Mawr College, and a postdoctoral fellowship from Stanford University. She is an anthropological archaeologist specializing in the archaeology of the first cities. She teaches classes focused on anthropology, ancient urbanism, critical heritage studies, decolonizing methodologies and the postcolonial critique. She is the PI for the Laboratory for Integrated Archaeological Visualization and Heritage (liavh.org), and is currently working at MohenjoDaro. She has published widely and has presented her work to many different audiences, both domestically and internationally. With nearly two decades of work on decolonizing methodologies, intersectional and feminist strategies, and transdisciplinary approaches, Dr. Rizvi’s work has intentionally pushed disciplinary limits, and demanded ethical decolonial praxis at all levels of engagement, from teaching to research.

UPDATE: Please note the following updated information for this meeting that was rescheduled for May. Costa Rica has been added to the docket for this meeting.The letter submission deadline is May 13, 2025 and the new docket number is [DOS-2025-0003]. If you previously submitted a letter for the February you need not resubmit. More info: https://www.archaeological.org/preserving-chile-costa-rica-italy-morocco-and-vietnam/ If you’ve traveled to Chile, Italy, Morocco, or Vietnam and/or appreciate their cultural heritage, your experience and passion can help the U.S. Cultural Property Advisory Committee with their upcoming deliberations. Watch this short video to find out how you can join the AIA to speak up for threatened archaeological sites. Visit www.archaeological.org/preser... for letter templates and more information. Submit your comments on regulations.gov on the docket: [DOS-2024-0048-0001] and follow the prompts!

Join the AIA as Solange Ashby (UCLA) presents Ancient African Queens This lecture was given live at 8pm Eastern on October 16, 2024. Description: This lecture focuses on a sequence of queens of the ancient kingdom of Meroe (Kush/Nubia) who ruled contemporaneously with Roman control of Egypt and the authors of the New Testament gospels in the 1st century of the Common Era (AD). Dr. Ashby contrasts the queens’ self presentation with the ways in which New Testament authors and contemporary Greek historians such as Strabo describe the sole-ruling Meroitic queens. Bio: Solange Ashby received her Ph.D. in Egyptology from the University of Chicago. Dr. Ashby’s expertise in ancient languages, including Egyptian hieroglyphs, Demotic, and Meroitic, underpins her research into the history of religious transformation in Northeast Africa. Her book, Calling Out to Isis: The Enduring Nubian Presence at Philae, explores the Egyptian temple of Philae as a Nubian sacred site. Her second book explores the lives of five Nubian women from history including queens, priestesses, and mothers. Dr. Ashby is an Assistant Professor in the department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at UCLA where she teaches Egyptology and Nubian Studies.

Join the AIA as Chip Colwell (SAPIENS) presents On the Origins of Stuff. This lecture was given live at 8pm Eastern on September 25, 2024. Description: Over three million years ago, our ancient ancestors realized that rocks could be broken into sharp-edged objects for slicing meat, making the first knives. This discovery resulted in a good meal—and eventually changed the fate of our species and our planet. In this talk, Chip Colwell shares his thrilling and accessible new book, So Much Stuff: How Humans Discovered Tools, Invented Meaning, and Made More of Everything published by the University of Chicago Press. An archaeologist, public anthropologist, and former museum curator, Colwell traveled the world to investigate how humanity took three leaps that led to stuff becoming inseparable from our lives—inspiring a love affair with things that made humans who we are and may also lead us to our downfall. Bio: Chip Colwell is an associate research professor at the University of Colorado, Denver, and the editor-in-chief of SAPIENS, a digital magazine of the Wenner-Gren Foundation about anthropological thinking and discoveries. He is the author and editor of 13 books including Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits: Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America’s Culture, which received six major book awards.

Live presentation recorded on May 17, 2024. Letter deadline is May 28, 2024. More info: https://www.archaeological.org/preserving-ecuador-jordan-and-ukraine/ Visit (or revisit) some incredible archaeological highlights from these three countries and learn more about how to compose a letter to the Cultural Property Advisory Committee during our webinar. Join the AIA for brief presentations by experts who have traveled, lived, and worked in Ecuador, Jordan, and/or Ukraine and learn how you can advocate for the protection of archaeological sites in these three countries. The countries of Ecuador and Jordan recently requested that the U.S. renew the bilateral agreements that protects their cultural resources from being illegally imported into the United States and Ukraine has requested that a similar bilateral agreement with the United States be put into place for the very first time. After a whirlwind virtual trip across the globe with cultural heritage professionals Sarah Rowe (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley), Morag Kersel (Depaul University) and Roksolana Makar (Ukrainian Heritage Monitoring Lab), make sure you join AIA VP for Cultural Heritage Ömür Harmanşah in writing a letter in support of preserving the cultural heritage of Ecuador, Jordan, and Ukraine to the U.S. Cultural Property Advisory Committee!

Letter deadline: May 28, 2024 If you’ve traveled to Ecuador, Jordan, or Ukraine and/or appreciate their cultural heritage, your experience and passion can help the U.S. Cultural Property Advisory Committee with their upcoming deliberations. Watch this short video to find out how you can join the AIA to speak up for threatened archaeological sites. Visit https://www.archaeological.org/preserving-ecuador-jordan-and-ukraine/ for letter templates and more information.

Heritage Broadcasting Service ( https://www.heritagetac.org ), or just plain Heritage, launched on January 1, 2021. Developed by the nonprofit Archaeological Legacy Institute (that’s us, the people who created The Archaeology Channel at archaeologychannel.org), Heritage features more than 300 outstanding film titles from many countries on familiar subjects. As of June 30, 2025, new films include: “Neanderthal: In the Footsteps of Another Humanity,” “One Big Family: The History of the Kliafa Soft Drinks Company,” and “Humanity's Footsteps, Season 2, Episode 3: The Neolithic Artisan." ► HERITAGE: (https://heritagetac.org/) ► INSTAGRAM: / (https://www.instagram.com/heritagebroadcastingservice/) / (https://www.instagram.com/archaeologychannel/) ► FACEBOOK: / (https://www.facebook.com/TheArchaeologyChannel/) #archaeology #archeology #heritage #anthropology #history #culture #heritagebroadcastingservice #film #documentary

Heritage Staff Pick Saturday: Matronas "Matronas" sheds light on the incredible resilience of midwives during El Salvador’s Civil War, when they were the only support for birthing mothers amidst state violence. Fast forward to today, and these ancestral caretakers are facing government repression as efforts to ban home births threaten both their role and the cultural traditions they’ve preserved for generations. This film tells the urgent story of how the fight for humane, culturally respectful birth practices is being pushed to the brink. Watch on Heritage and learn more about the ongoing struggle for women's rights and cultural preservation. ► HERITAGE: (https://heritagetac.org/) ► INSTAGRAM: / (https://www.instagram.com/heritagebroadcastingservice/) / (https://www.instagram.com/archaeologychannel/) ► FACEBOOK: / (https://www.facebook.com/TheArchaeologyChannel/) #Heritage #Matronas #Midwives #BirthRights #CulturalPreservation #ElSalvador #HumanRights #IndigenousCare #FilmPick #culture

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Over 2,000 Neanderthal footprints… left behind 80,000 years ago on the shores of Normandy. Archaeologists are racing against the sea to preserve this rare glimpse into a lost world—of men, women, and children just like us. HeritageTAC.org for more #Neanderthal #Archaeology #AncientHistory #HumanOrigins #Normandy #HeritagePreservation #FootprintsInTime #LostWorlds #Heritage #archeology #heritagetac #streaming #nonprofit #community

Happy Saturday! We have another amazing film picked out for you from outr Heritage Staff: The Tumuk Humak Expedition A century after Claudius de Goeje first encountered the Wayana during a colonial expedition, his descendant returns—armed with a projector and a forgotten 1937 film—to screen history in the heart of the Surinamese jungle. 🌿📽️ A powerful story of legacy, memory, and cultural reconnection. ► HERITAGE: (https://heritagetac.org/) ► INSTAGRAM: / (https://www.instagram.com/heritagebroadcastingservice/) / (https://www.instagram.com/archaeologychannel/) ► FACEBOOK: / (https://www.facebook.com/TheArchaeologyChannel/) #Wayana #JungleCinema #AncestralExpedition #TACFilmFestival #culture #history #heritage

This Juneteenth consider sitting down with some popcorn and enjoying these educational documentaries on Heritage. Follow Amanda Eke as she explores both the Bronx and Harlem and uncovers the black history and culture within the cities. Watch exclusively uncovered archival footage dating back over 50 years, along with a deep array of over 45 raw and candid interviews that tell the incredibly heartbreaking tale of a once-in-a-generation talent who was shunned by a game he was destined to dominate. ► HERITAGE: (https://heritagetac.org/) ► INSTAGRAM: / (https://www.instagram.com/heritagebroadcastingservice/) / (https://www.instagram.com/archaeologychannel/) ► FACEBOOK: / (https://www.facebook.com/TheArchaeologyChannel/) #blackhistory #juneteenth #june #history #culture #relevent #harlem #bronx #art #poetry #poet #culture #history

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Season 11 Episode 9 Strata: Portraits of Humanity, June 2025 (Early Slavic fortress) Featuring “Discovering Mikulčice”: Unearth the mysteries of Great Moravians, the people of the first West Slavic state, through the lens of groundbreaking 1954 discovery of Mikulčice's medieval stronghold, the Grand Duke's palace, three bridges, twelve chruches and a trove of gold and jewels. This documentary unveils the early Medieval fortress, not far from the Austrian border in the eastern part of today’s Czech Republic, expanding our understanding of Great Moravians’ lives and culture around the ninth century. Watch on The Archaeology Channel (https://www.archaeologychannel.org/index.php/video-guide/strata-portraits-of-humanity) or Heritage Broadcasting Service. ► HERITAGE: (https://heritagetac.org/) ► INSTAGRAM: / (https://www.instagram.com/heritagebroadcastingservice/) / (https://www.instagram.com/archaeologychannel/) ► FACEBOOK: / (https://www.facebook.com/TheArchaeologyChannel/) #heritage #strata #archaeology #archeology #anthropology #history #culturalheritage #strataportraitsofhumanity #culture #film #documentary

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Why the “Jesus Boat” has no connection to Jesus. Become a Bible & Archaeology patron: http://www.patreon.com/bibleandarch Send us your questions: bible-archaeology@uiowa.edu Visit the Bible & Archaeology website: http://www.uiowa.edu/bam Find us on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bible-and-archaeology/id1753393688 Find us on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3tbe91wqMwkHcudArRi1ue?si=d483a9f54bf94753 Produced and edited by Jordan Jones Additional Contributons: Mary Kathryn Lichty

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There are a lot of archaeological news stories every month and with every story come questions. This week on the podcast, we wanted to round up four stories from June 2025 that deserve more discussion. Check out our news shorts for weekly archaeology news updates. Check out Dr. Cargill's Online Class 'Cities of the Bible' patreon.com/bibleandarch/shop Become a patron for bonus content and early access: http://www.patreon.com/bibleandarch Send us your questions: bible-archaeology@uiowa.edu Visit the Bible & Archaeology website: http://www.uiowa.edu/bam Find us on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bible-and-archaeology/id1753393688 Find us on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3tbe91wqMwkHcudArRi1ue?si=d483a9f54bf94753 Stories: Caesarea Maritima: Roman Sarcophagus https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ancient-sarcophagus-unearthed-in-israel-portrays-an-epic-drinking-contest-between-the-god-dionysus-and-the-mythical-hero-hercules-180986785/ https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/extraordinary-sarcophagus-discovered-in-israel-shows-carving-of-dionysus-beating-hercules-in-a-drinking-contest Egyptian Blue https://www.nature.com/articles/s40494-025-01699-7 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/researchers-are-recreating-the-long-lost-recipe-for-egyptian-blue-the-worlds-oldest-known-synthetic-pigment-180986778/ Madaba Map https://archaeology.org/news/2025/05/29/lost-byzantine-city-rediscovered-in-jordanian-desert/ https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/4243913 Tel Dor Shipwrecks https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/iron-age-ship-cargoes-from-the-harbour-of-dor-israel/D44019724498E1221A1E026E25FFEA04 Hosted by Mary Kathryn Lichty and Jordan Jones Produced and Edited by Jordan Jones The Bible & Archaeology podcast is made with support from Amanda Stone June News 0:00 Intro 3:10: Roman Sarcophagus at Caesarea Maritima 10:55: The Recreation of Egyptian Blue 17:22: Tel Dor Shipwrecks 27:08: The Madaba Map and Tharais

Kelsey M Reese Agriculturally-reliant societies are especially vulnerable to changes in climatic patterns and increases in local populations. Increases in population require more food to be produced, while extreme climate volatility results in progressively unreliable annual agricultural yield. In the northern U.S. Southwest, maize agriculture provided 70% of annual calories in the ancestral Pueblo diet from A.D. 880–1300. This paper presents a case study from the Mesa Verde North Escarpment, an ecologically marginal and culturally liminal space occupied from A.D. 600–1300. This paper will present a localized maize paleo-productivity model—an approximation of annual prehistoric maize yields from retrodicted precipitation and temperature records—and a regional demographic reconstruction to trace potential periods of internal migration through the north escarpment in response to climate change. The production and maintenance of trade networks that could supplement poor annual maize yields on the ecologically marginalized north escarpment, and the regional ramification of supporting such a population through hard times will also be explored. The longitudinal scale of this study can inform the point at which populations no longer respond to climatic hardships with trade or small-scale movement. This case study will be used to examine the effects of climate change on local population responses to food shortages, the points at which supportive trade networks break down, the levels of resiliency in local populations when a space is increasingly uninhabitable, and the climatic conditions in which societies determine life is no longer sustainable in the area.

John T. Murphy Science conceived as a social and historical process is shaped by contingent factors that include, inter alia: theoretical frameworks within which research takes place; tools, including computational power and software; data available in different forms; a larger social milieu that directs the lines of inquiry that can be pursued (often enforced by funding, etc.); and institutional and professional structures that can impose additional constraints. The rise of computational models and modeling in archaeology can be viewed through this lens, and its trajectory over the past several decades inspected for the ways that these currents have buoyed and swept it. The ways in which it is today contributing to new areas of study or even disciplines (e.g. 'archaeohydrology') provide examples for further inquiry. The use of models and modeling to bring data and insights about archaeological contexts to present-day issues can also be considered in this light: What roles does modeling play in doing this? What can it be doing, given the current states of theory, tools, and data that it exists within right now? Recent case studies in which the author(s) have been involved will be presented in which models and modeling have been applied to archaeological and contemporary settings; these cross urban and regional settings and specifically consider issues of sustainability, resilience, risk, and vulnerability. A recent workshop sponsored by iHOPE and hosted at SESYNC, with an explicit focus on applying lessons from two areas (Maya and Mesopotamia), will be used as an entry to the discussion.

Scott M. Ure Over the last decade we have recognized the growing importance of teaching students the importance of acquiring basic skills in digital archaeology. In an attempt to meet these needs we developed the Archaeological Digital Initiative (ADI). This initiative is a collaborative effort between faculty, staff, and students to incorporate state-of-the-art technology into archaeological practices to streamline data collection, reduce redundancy and error, improve efficiency, and capture data not previously visible or recognized. Students are involved in brainstorming and problem solving new ways to improve archaeological data collection, processing, and manipulation. Perhaps more importantly, students are given hands-on experiences to practice digital archaeology in real-world applications. This effort has led to collaborative projects between students in archaeology, museum studies, computer science, and mechanical, electrical, and aeronautical engineering. In conjunction with the ADI, we started an archaeoinformatics class in 2014 which focuses on the fundamentals of GIS, GPS, and digital surveying and mapping. In addition, we are incorporating unmanned aerial systems (sUAS) fights and data processing in the class. In this paper we discuss the successes and challenges experienced with the ADI and teaching archaeoinformatics.

Jari Pakkanen, Ann Brysbaert The 3D field-documentation courses of the Finnish Institute at Athens were started in 2014 and they have been run at the Bronze Age site of Tiryns in the Argolid and at the Archaic to Hellenistic town at Ambelakia on Salamis. Their aim has been to train students without previous experience in archaeological documentation to work with reflectorless total stations and photogrammetry. In 2014–2016 and 2018 these courses and fieldwork were run in collaboration with Leiden University. In these field-courses students were introduced to both equipment and software used in intensive 3D feature-by-feature documentation. They learn to use reflectorless total stations as a drawing tool and the advantages the method has over traditional static total station work with prism. The second technique taught was photogrammetry, including how to combine the produced line-documentation with photogrammetry models. Students quickly learned the principles of 3D work and how to use the hardware and post-processing software. Behind the fast learning process lies in the one-to-one teaching and the hands-on work with in-situ archaeological remains. The time in the field and number of repetitions need to be intense enough so that the procedures become automatic. This paper aims to illustrate the field-course processes and how used methods have developed over the years. It discusses how the obtained skills have fed into the subsequent studies and research of the students and colleagues who have participated. Teaching on the field courses is compared with running classroom-based 3D documentation teaching at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Costas Papadopoulos Digital Archaeology teaching has the potential to empower students with the skills required to become producers rather than passive consumers of knowledge (Cocco 2006). Project-based and Problem-based Learning (PBL) construct a framework through which students engage with authentic challenges (Bell 2010; Herrington & Herrington 2007) in a collaborative, engaged, and reflective environment. The ethos of maker culture that emphasises creativity and learning through doing, enables a collaborative and experiential learning through which students work together to complete an end product that materialises their knowledge and understanding (Helle et al. 2006). In this process, reflective learning approaches and peer-feedback make them responsible for their own learning and their weaknesses become strengths to improve their practice (Ertmer & Simons 2005). Finally, the process of co-creation and the management challenges that collaborative projects pose, provide them with new mechanisms to critically respond to different situations as well as with the necessary competencies for careers in academia and industry (Cain & Cocco 2014). This paper draws from the author’s experience in teaching digital archaeology courses within a digital humanities (DH) setting. Using examples from his own practice and discussing the challenges that a diverse DH classroom poses, it will argue that project- and problem-based approaches to learning equip students with the necessary skills to respond to an increasingly competitive digital and creative economy in academia and beyond. References Exceed the word limit - Can be provided on request

Grzegorz Kiarszys Modern remote sensing techniques and archaeological geophysics have amazing potential. Reading and understanding of digital data visualizations seems to be very straightforward, probably due to widespread use of some popular computer applications like Google Earth, open source GiS and Geoportals. Aerial photographs and 3D visualizations became a kind of common language. However, focusing only on teaching practical skills may not be enough. Interpretation of obtained results of applied methods requires different skills, than processing digital data. It involves cognitive processes and critical approach. How to connect those two completely different realities - digital records and archaeological theories? The 18th century Irish philosopher George Berkeley noticed that we do not perceive with our sight anything more than light, colours and shapes. Access to the material world leads through our senses. Therefore we can only reach its materiality indirectly, through ideas. Pure perception is not enough to gain an understanding of the phenomena we observe. We need to refer to the preliminary knowledge through which we name and recognize things we are involved with. Without this knowledge the world would forfeit its reason. Similar circumstances occurs when we attempt to interpret archaeological record. Learning to see is relatively simple, learning to understand requires both expertise and critical thinking.

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Ronald Visser, Wilko van Zijverden At Saxion University of Applied Sciences we have been teaching practical archaeology for over 10 years. Teaching digital archaeology has always been an integral part of the Bachelor-curriculum. The digital basics are covered within the first two years of the 4 year course. The following years more advanced digital tools are taught, but only for those students that choose the specialization digital archaeology. However, we do expect our students to develop their skills further during assignments or projects. Recently, we have revolutionary changed our educational model, moving away from single small courses and changing to a more holistic and integrated approach that teaches (digital) skills and knowledge related to real world projects. The integration helps students to understand the application and use of various tools better. During the round table I would like to show challenges and chances for both teachers and students in both educational methods.

Elisabeth Lorans, Xavier Rodier By the neologism Archeomatics, built with reference to geomatics in geography, we refer to association between archaeology and computer science generally called Digital Archaeology but closer to the Archaeological Information Science proposed by Marcos Llobera. Since 1988, Archeomatics is taught at the University of Tours in a master degree to develop new types of archaeologists mastering the most recent digital methods at Post-Master and Doctorate levels. Attached to the CITERE-LAT laboratory, this new master degree benefits from a strong partnership in training and research in rescue archaeology with INRAP. Our goal is to train future archaeologists in the field practice, particularly to meet the expectations of rescue archaeology, as well as those of innovative methods and research, based on the implementation of first hand data. Students can plan their course according to their career objectives and their main interest (spatial analysis in urban or rural environments, architecture and construction techniques, zooarchaeology and studies of artefacts, from Protohistory to Modern Times) but always focusing on computerization of all archaeological research processes from excavation to dissemination. Regardless the students' initial knowledge in computer sciences, Archaeomatics was included from the beginning in BA level and then more strongly in MA level. Since September 2018, training in archaeology and archaeomatics has been one of the courses offered by the Higher School of Heritage Intelligence, which broadens the prospects for opportunities in all heritage professions by offering modular training with thematic courses on heritage as well as digital humanities.

Till Frieder Sonnemann, Mikolaj Kostyrko Having been implemented into the archaeological curriculum of many European universities, digital subjects have brought archaeology into the 21st century. Depending on the focus of the course work, or the lecturer, various subjects appear as compulsory or optional topics to choose from: GIS, statistics and networks, remote sensing, geophysics, 3D-scanning, visualization techniques, computer programming, data bases, to name a few, often in combination with different archaeological or heritage themes, or linking to the natural sciences, mathematics, informatics, geography or digital humanities. The courses are still mostly implemented in traditional archaeology or heritage careers as part of BA and MA studies, and seldom offered as a full course. Nevertheless new MA courses are being planned and implemented. The talk intents to present and discuss the outcome of a questionnaire filled out by lecturers from different European universities on their involvement in teaching digital methods. Not claiming to be exhaustive, the introductory talk intents to give an overview of the various and different approaches on how digital archaeology is currently being taught at European universities and hopes to lead to an open discussion in this roundtable session.