Archaeologists have used digital media in a variety of ways to try to reach new audiences. I want you to explore the following sites and annotate what you find, using our hypothes.is reading group (nb don’t use the ‘public’ group!), tying what you’re seeing to ideas you encountered in the readings.
- https://www.dayofarchaeology.com/ (worldwide) and Ben Marwick’s Analysis of the posts
- Archaeology in the Community (US) http://www.archaeologyincommunity.com/
- DigVentures (UK) https://digventures.com/
Then, I want you to actually sign up and complete some of the possible ‘citizen science’ tasks at Micropasts (UK) https://crowdsourced.micropasts.org/.
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Give this project on transcribing hieroglyphics a try https://fabriciusworkbench.withgoogle.com/. It is a collaboration between humans and machines to teach the machines to automatically decipher hieroglyphs. (You’ll need to watch the tutorial and then use Google image search to find a picture of an inscription to try to translate.)
Connect what you do with what you’ve read and observed. How is archaeological expertise conveyed, shared, defended, or enlarged by these projects?