Digital Archaeologies

Question 1

current digital archaeology

Answer 1

employing digital tools, as arch subfield merging with mainstream arch as digital tools
- visual arch far back as 90s

Question 2

craft & embodiment

Answer 2

progressive move to digital texts, arch illustration seen as democratization of knowledge production, new tools multi-sensorial
challenge is to materially flesh out what a highly abstract digital future might look like

Question 3

materiality

Answer 3

cell phones are changing field tools
code itself and obsolete objects in the future - should be encouraging degrowth
rather than proliferating digital waste

Question 4

the uncanny

Answer 4

uncanny valley and the archaeological gaze

Question 5

ethics, politics & accessibility

Answer 5

digital arch is gendered- quantitative/
computational arch male vs digital heritage outreach female
2D exploration of political archaeology but there has been insensitivity around subjects

Question 6

digital archaeology conclusions (Morgan)

Answer 6

growing field, technology is really great but also destorying arch at the same time. Digital arch is simultanouslty helpful and complicating everything