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The PAGES-endorsed "Digital Archaeology: Quantitative approaches, spatial statistics and socioecological modelling" colloquium with be held from 4-6 February 2019 in Bern, Switzerland.
Venue
Archaeological Institute
University of Bern
Logistics
This Internatinal Colloquium on Digital Archaeology is open to about 40-60 participants, and is not exclusively designed for archaeologists but also for researchers from (paleo)environmental sciences.
Description
Recent advances in disciplines like computer and environmental sciences as well as the availability and processability of (openly shared) big data have triggered fundamental changes in research over the last decades. It has also expanded the toolbox of archaeological methods. While traditional methods remain important and continue to be used to investigate past human societies over time and space, novel quantitative approaches are rapidly gaining momentum.
The colloquium is especially concerned in discussing methods of predictive and socioecological modelling, network analysis as well as methods of pattern recognition in archaeological and environmental datasets.
Goals
The colloquium will address the issues of:
- quantitative approaches in spatial and non-spatial archaeological case studies
- data mining and new techniques of supervised and unsupervised pattern recognition in archaeological and environmental datasets
- applications and approaches to socioecological modelling on different scales and temporal resolutions.
Confirmed Speakers
Juan A. Barceló, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Michael Barton, Arizona State University
Mikhail Kanevski, University of Lausanne
Oliver Nakoinz, University of Kiel
Program
Overview: Two days of lectures, one-day R workshop.
More information to come when available on the official website: www.oeschger.unibe.ch/dab2019
Abstracts
*Updated deadline* Deadline for abstract submission is now 25 November 2018: www.oeschger.unibe.ch/dab2019
Registration
Registration closes 1 January 2019.
See above link for registration details.
The registration fee includes workshop registration, materials, coffee breaks, and the conference dinner.
- The registration fee for presenting participants: 60 CHF
- The registration fee for non-presenting participants: 100 CHF
- BA and MA students are exempt from the registration fee.
Further information
Questions can be emailed to: dab@iaw.unibe.ch
Official website: www.oeschger.unibe.ch/dab2019