How wrong is wrong and how good can it get? 14C chronological model power and sensitivity analyses with OxCal and R.
How wrong is wrong and how good can it get? 14C chronological model power and sensitivity analyses with OxCal and R.
A 3D library of ancient (classical era) ships.
Semi-automated 3D digital method to systematically quantify stone tool edge angle and design.
Test spatial associations of objects in three dimensions by using the Ripley’s K function.
3d models of archaeological ceramics.
3D reconstruction of incomplete archaeological objects using a generative adversarial network (GAN).
Blender addon that simplifies the tasks involved in the management and optimization of the archaeological and architectonic 3D record.
A collection of references about public archaeology and archaeological heritage management in/from the Mediterranean.
A list of tools and resource for data collection and processing in the field.
Scientific Computing Environment for archaeology: Installing R, Rstudio and other things on a lightweight Linux in a VirtualBox virtual machine
A list of terms related to open archaeobotanical science.
A collection of tutorial on agent-based modelling for archaeologists.
code repository and website for Agent-Based Modeling for Archaeology.
collection of archaeological data for training purposes.
Tools to directly model underlying population dynamics using chronological datasets (radiocarbon and other) with a variety of models, including Continuous Piecewise Linear (CPL) model framework, and model comparison framework using BIC. Package also calibrates 14C samples, and generates Summed Probability Distributions (SPD). CPL modelling directly estimates the most likely population trajectory given a dataset, using SPD simulation analysis to generate a Goodness-of-fit test for the best selected model.
The Archive des datations radiocarbones d’Afrique centrale (archive for radiocarbon datings from Central Africa, aDRAC) provides a catalogue of available radiocarbon dates from Central Africa. The data cover published radiocarbon dates and essential metadata for each date as well as available references.
Dataset of 4,010 radiocarbon dates from Italy from Late Mesolithic until Late Antiquity.
Provides a system of classes and methods to represent and work with time-series.
Archaeological Information System
Translating Akkadian signs to transcriptions using NLP techniques such as HMM, MEMM and BiLSTM neural networks.
Shiny app to analyse Al2O3:C measurements
Pre-Processing XY Data from Experimental Methods.
Allen relations from Bayesian calibration: R function to compare two indefinite intervals produced by a Bayesian calibration using the Allen algebra.
Allen’s Interval Algebra for Archaeologists.
A Web tool for converting CAs with dating information to relative time intervals as RDF.
Tutorial on how to visualise, analyse and interpret stable isotope data
Practice some techniques for analysing archaeological radiocabon ages using R.
The goal of this project is to spatially locate bibliographic resources regarding the archaeology of Anatolia (modern Turkey). This takes the bibliography of archaeology to the next level by showing not only the topics and authors, but where the archaeological research is being done.
Dynamic image analysis to identify ancient artifacts in soil samples.
GeoJSON files for ceramic kilns of the ancient world, no chronological/spatial boundaries
Repository containing lists of all published ancient metagenome samples (and related).
Functions to help with the preprocessing steps in anthropological research.
An R package for Smith’s Mean Measure of Divergence (MMD), with a graphical user interface, facilities for trait selection and graphical representations.
A R package for the aoristic analysis of archaeological data.
R package for aoristic analysis; the goal of aoristic is to make sense of temporally vague data.
Estimate probabilities of find numbers per period.
A program package for registering and importing data of archaeobotanical analyses including contexts of samples as well as evaluation tools.
Conditional Random Fields model for NER in Dutch Archaeology.
Information and guidelines for a workshop about managing archaeological databases
Multilingual glossary designed to enhance access to archaeological data.
QGIS Python script/plugin for computing azimuth, horizon altitude, and celestial declination of a specific bearing indicated by a line segment selected by a user.
An R Interface to OxCal.
Bayesian Modeling of Archaeological Chronologies.
Models and data to reproduce results from ArchaeoPhases examples and vignettes.
The ArchaeoLines plugin displays any combination of declination arcs most relevant to archaeo- or ethnoastronomical studies.
Brings together sources on archaeological ethics in a single place for the use of students, researchers, and professional archaeologists.
A template to create an archaeological catalogue from a spreadsheet using the LaTeX csvsimple package.
An online space for sharing data, 3d models, etc about archaeological objects to enable the comparison of these objects.
A quick demo of archaeological social network analysis in R
An app for use in archaeological field survey to collect high-accurate point locations, photographs, and other data.
A directory of GitHub projects by OR for archaeologists.
View the AR models on your phone.
How does wikipedia see archaeology?
An app to collect data on archaeological objects.
Sketch of a look at the ‘grand challenges’ of Kintigh et al. 2014.
Machine learning techniques for archaeology.
archaeology-object-data-collector-app
A simple adventure game in Unity2D. Revolves around being an archaeologist exploring some ruin and digging up treasure/fossils
Automated detection and classification of multi-cell phytoliths at genera and species-level using Deep Learning algorithm.
Tools for the post-processing of the Markov Chain simulated by any software used for the construction of archeological chronologies.
Post-Processing of the Markov Chain Simulated by ‘ChronoModel’, ‘Oxcal’ or ‘BCal’.
Read PDFs with archaeological site report information and return the information in the forms as a dataframe.
Tool for the automatic recognition of archaeological pottery.
For handling archaeological chronological data.
The archdata package provides several types of data that are typically used in archaeological research
A Dutch BERT model for the Archaeology domain.
R package for the analysis of the fragmentation of archeological objects.
Linux distribution with specialist software for archaeological purposes.
Analysis tools for geometric models of archaeological pieces.
A packaged R ‘Shiny’ application for the visualisation, interactive exploration, and web communication of archaeological spatial data.
An R Shiny application to gather and map datasets visualised using the archeoViz application
Arches is a web platform for creating, managing, & visualizing geospatial data. Arches was inspired by the needs of the Cultural Heritage community, particularly the widespread need of organizations to build & manage cultural heritage inventories.
Deployment of Arches via Docker for archaeology and related instruction.
A light-weight database application designed to standardize and simplify data entry of archaeological or historical artifacts
Tasks for Excavations in AutoCAD
Frequency time-series tools for archaeology.
An Archaeology Stop Motion Movie Festival!
The ArchVocab ontologies by Leif Isaksen
ARCSCore is a metadata standard for organizing and sharing digital versions of non-digital documents created during the course of an archaeological investigation
Floor plan app using augmented reality.
This is a Django project to obtain statistical information from an ARK project. It is aimed to mine data from archaeological databases and create customizable visualizations, querying both text and geographical data.
The ARK v1.1.2 Stable Release. ARK (The Archaeological Recording Kit) is a web-based ’toolkit’ for the collection, storage and dissemination of archaeological data. It includes data-editing, data-creation, data-viewing and data-sharing tools, all of which are delivered using a web-based front-end.
ARK (The Archaeological Recording Kit) 2.0 Development Repository. ARK (The Archaeological Recording Kit) is a web-based ’toolkit’ for the collection, storage and dissemination of archaeological data. It includes data-editing, data-creation, data-viewing and data-sharing tools, all of which are delivered using a web-based front-end.
A QGIS plugin for local site grids.
A Collection of R S4 Classes that Represent Archaeological Data.
A tool for creating and manipulating Harris Matrices, part of the Archaeological Recording Kit ARK.
A simple gui app to simplify scanning single context plans.
A QGIS plugin to simplfy digitization of archaeological plans drawn using the Museum of London Single Context Recording methodology.
Tools of Virtual Anthropology to build virtual cavities as endocasts, to align two disarticulated models belonging to the same specimen, and functions to import and export format files into another format.
A benchmark dataset for automated detection of archaeological sites on LiDAR data.
Experimental mobile app demoing cultural heritage documentation tools in augmented reality. Supports capturing and annotating photos in 3D space. Proof-of-concept features in the app include image anchoring and surface drawing tools.
R code for converting B&W jpgs of artefact silhouettes to matrices and computing basic Elliptical Fourier statistics, including PCA and MANOVA.
Estimates artifact class diversity in multiple geographic regions.
Python script for analyzing data sets of archaeological artifacts containing only Boolean and categorical variables.
Faked GIS-Datasets, simulating an island in the Atlantic for educational purposes in using GIS in archaeology
A digital clock which computes your local time in ‘seasonal-hours’.
A tool for the geospatial analysis, literary network visualization, and plot mapping of ancient texts.
Working with map data in R.
Bayesian tools for reconstructing past demography.
An R package for chronological Bayesian models integrated for Optically Stimulated OSL, Luminescence Dating
Radiocarbon Dating, Age-Depth Modelling, Relative Sea Level Rate Estimation, and Non-Parametric Phase Modelling
Plotting remote sensing data, especially how to go from XYZ data on an irregular grid to an interpolated raster
Experimenting with the opencontext.org API using R
An open-access database of African archaeology publications by African and Afrodescendant scholars.
Datasets used in Binford’s 2001 book “Constructing Frames of Reference: An Analytical Method for Archaeological Theory Building Using Ethnographic and Environmental Data Sets
R script that implements a means for statistically assessing the degree of co-occurrence between classes within a dataset.
An R package that provides datasets useful for biological and forensic anthropology.
Apps and functions for use in Bioarchaeology
A shiny app which uses the results of standard osteological methods to create a basic biological profile
An R package that provides functions for 3D tessellation with Voro++ and subsequent horizontal cutting of the resulting polygons for 2D plotting. It was developed for archaeological spatiotemporal data, but may as well be used for other three dimensional contexts.
Access and visualize 3D models of faunal remains.
R-script for conducting and evaluating bootstrapped correspondence analyses.
Creating, impementing and publishing relational databases on the Web, especially for the archaeolgical domain.
Script for calculating Brainerd-Robinson coefficients based on tabular count or percent data. This script also estimates the probability that a given difference between two samples is the product of sampling error.
Shared definitions of digital competences needed by graduate students in the programmes focusing on written cultural heritage.
R package for tidy radiocarbon data.
Script for extracting c14 dates from text.
List of all past and present radiocarbon laboratory codes known to have been used in published references.
R package to query different openly accessible radiocarbon date databases, allowing for basic data cleaning, calibration and merging
R Script for Seriation Using Correspondence Analysis.
Statistical methods for archaeological data analysis, course website repository.
This poster presents an approach that helps archaeological projects maintain an authoritative database, while retaining the flexibility and accessibility needed for ongoing research with multiple collaborators, by implementing a server-client architecture to maintain a single, consistent research database.
Peer reviewed and indexed articles published on Caddo archaeology since 2000.
R package to help interpreting Correspondence Analysis’ results.
Small command line tool for 14C calibration.
CalPal 14C-Database created by Bernhard Weninger (Universität zu Köln) as part of the CalPal software package. This repository serves as an interface to access the data more easily.
The goal of carbon14 is to provide a tidy interface to radiocarbon dating, to promote its inclusion in reproducible manuscripts
A compilation of anthropogenic radiocarbon dates for the Caribbean region.
R Package for contingency tables seriation via Correspondence Analysis.
An R package that collects together data for the ancient world
Colossal Cave Adventure digital palaeography and epigraphy project.
Visual shape-matching of ceramics profiles.
Dashboard showing ceramic EDA and interaction network construction in the Late Prehistoric Central Illinois River Valley.
R scripts for digitizing, processing, analyzing, and comparing archaeological ceramic 2d profile drawings, photographs, and other data.
This R script produces a exploratory visual for assessing site date ranges originally suggested to me by Wesley Bernardini Redlands University
A method for chronological apportioning of ceramic assemblages that considers site occupation dates, ceramic production dates, and popularity distribution curves.
Work with geotifs to detect charcoal hearths
Cultural heritage abstract reference model.
CharTool is a macro tool for quantifying charcoal particles for paleoecological research applications.
Cherish is a tool that aids archaeologists and designers to represent historical, urban and archaeological structures and sites in 3D by means of image manipulation and sketching. Combine disparate data types such as photographs, illustrations, diagrams, text annotations, point cloud representation, etc, into a comprehensive 3D space, to make 3D sense of the data.
A bookdown powered manual for the small scale cultural heritage organization looking to leverage various chi techniques for their own collections.
This is an example implementation of chrono-spatial modelling of settlement activities.
Building chronological charts easily with R.
A tool for computer-assisted chronological research.
Chronological Modelling of Archaeological Data using Bayesian Statistics.
Applications for obtaining chronograms (quantified chronology diagrams) and time distribution curves of archaeological or historical units from quantified dating indicators treated as inaccuracy intervals.
Provides a system of classes and methods to represent and work with such time-series.
Tools for chronological uncertainty propagation.
Extends the game back millions years and multiple eras into the days when “man” first descended from the trees!
A package for classical age-depth modelling of cores from deposits.
A list of linked open data repositories relating to classics and ancient history.
Provides some utility functions for cleaning radiocarbon data in R.
This app will allow you to build & apply calibrations for the Tracer & Artax series of XRF devices
A python implementation of the method of clustering radiocarbon dates in order to determine whether they represent separate events, or phases in time
An application to generate temperature curves during pottery firing.
Uses Bayesian methods to enforce the chronological ordering of radiocarbon and other dates.
Set of 3D models of coral skeletons, which may be used as a reference collection.
Data analysis implementation for evaluating a novel sex estimation method based on skullanalyzer data.
Repository of Crop Origins database and Phylo Food phylogeny.
Data organisation, classification and visualisation of archaeobotanical data to understand crop processing stage.
Crossbones autogenerates 3D schematic skeletons, making rapid surveying and visualisation of dense skeletal assemblages a snap.
Dose Rate Estimation from In-Situ Gamma-Ray Spectrometry Measurements for Luminescence Dating
Extracts and calculates from long bone cross sections, cortical thickness maps, and biomechanically pertinent cross-sectional geometric properties.
An Approximate Bayesian Computation Framework for inferring patterns of cultural transmission from frequency data.
This CRAN Task View contains a list of packages useful for scientific work in Archaeology.
An App to recognize cuneiform characters on your Android phone.
App to run C14 calibration on the command line. Includes and is based on a calibration module written in and for Haskell.
Computer-Assisted Drawing of Archaeological Pottery.
Converting date ranges into dating ‘steps’ eases the visualization of changes in e.g. pottery consumption, style and other variables over time. This package provides tools to process and prepare data for visualization.
Archive of content shared during the annual Day of Archaeology from 2011-2017.
A Distant Reading of the Day of Archaeology
export of posts from dayofarchaeology.com
Dedalo is a knowledge management system for Cultural Heritage (tangible and intangible), Natural Heritage and Oral History/Memory.
Radiocarbon Dating Resolution Calculator.
Various legacy archaeology datasets for use as practical pedagogical case studies.
A webpage containing brief biographical information about some iconic archaeologists.
A simulation tool to estimate the rate of success that surveys possessing user-specific characteristics have in identifying archaeological sites (or any groups of clouds of objects), given specific parameters of survey area, survey methods, and site properties.
Simple Principal Components Analysis (PCA) and Correspondence Analysis (CA) based on the Singular Value Decomposition (SVD). This package provides S4 classes and methods to compute, extract, summarize and visualize results of multivariate data analysis. It also includes methods for partial bootstrap validation.
Proof of concept map for disaster response and archaeology
Documenting and sharing my ad-hoc fieldwork database setup
The Database of Obsidian Sourcing Studies
Perform tree-ring analyses such as detrending, chronology building, and crossdating.
DRAC is a Dose Rate and Age Calculator which has been designed to calculate environmental dose rates (_) and ages for trapped charge dating applications
This is a LibreOffice Calc spreadsheet designed to help you plan an aerial drone mapping survey mission.
E5 is a generalized data entry program intended for archaeologists that works with a configuration file where the data entry fields are defined
A QGIS 3 plugin for spatio-temporal interpolation of archaeological settlement evidence.
Configurable data collection program for archaeological survey and excavation.
Configurable data collection program for archaeological survey and excavation.
Brings together ancient Near Eastern specialists and data scientists to revolutionize the way in which the literature of Iraq in the first millennium BCE is reconstructed and analyzed.
Source archaeological artifacts using elemental composition.
R Package for sourcing elements.
Addon that brings the formal language Extended Matrix within the Blender 3D open-source software.
R package for year-based time scales
R package for calculating quantitative ethnobotany indices.
Datasets from studies of cultural evolution in Archaeology
R Shiny app for viewing archaeological excavation data in 3D.
Application (in LibreOffice Calc) for serializing a graphic matrix from counting tables. The application makes it possible to obtain either a serograph or a graph of the PVI matrograph type (visualization of the differences in independence from the percentages of independence values) which does not favor the vision of the variables over that of the lines and more suitable for non-chronological treatments.
What is the correlation between the exposure time of your photographs and the time of the day?
A scientific method and formal language for the Cultural Heritage domain that formalises complex interpretative philological phenomena such as virtual reconstructive hypotheses in a transparent and robust manner.
Shiny app fabric analysis.
An R implementation of the Fast Marching Method (FMM), first developed by Sethian (1996), with the modifications of Silva and Steele (2012, 2014). Also included is a spatial wrapper function that makes it easier to model dispersal scenarios in geospatial domains, as originally envisaged for the study and simulation of prehistoric dispersals
Compute and combine felling date estimates for historical tree-ring series with (incomplete) sapwood.
Fiche Stratigraphique Numerique (FSN) is an application project for field recording and management of archaeological operations data.
Android apps for archaeology that enable photography during field work.
Spatial Sampling and Survey Simulation Tools.
A suite of terminologies developed for indexing cultural heritage.
Fix the Exif.Image.Artist tag based on user input depending from the camera model. Useful if you have a bunch of photographs from different people all mixed up.
Datasets for teaching quantitative approaches and modeling in archaeology and paleontology. This package provides several types of data related to broad topics (cultural evolution, radiocarbon dating, paleoenvironments, etc.), which can be used to illustrate statistical methods in the classroom (multivariate data analysis, compositional data analysis, diversity measurement, etc.).
Datasets for Teaching Archaeology and Palaeontology.
This R Function creates a simple Ford diagram for archaeological seriation with error bars determined based on sample size were count data are given
ArcGIS toolbox for fuzzy viewshed calculation.
Global Charcoal Database
Constructs a graphical representation of petrographic drilling profiles.
Code for Geostatistics in ethnographic contexts.
GIS Projects for teaching and learning about Computational Archaeology
An open call to edit and revise current typological assignments and attributes associated with diagnostic artifacts found across the National Forests and Grasslands in Texas (NFGT).
A repository listing Museums active on GitHub, written in Rstats.
The GlobaLID web app
Facilitates the reconstruction of raw material provenances with lead isotopes.
A collection of functions that built in different points in time. The functions’ aim spans from univariate outlier detection, to permutation t test, permutation chi-square test, calculation of Brainerd-Robinson similarity coefficient, validation of logistic regression models, point pattern analysis, and more.
Inspired by the research project of historiography of ancient Graeco-Roman religions, the main goal is to spread a selected cult successfully across the ancient Mediterranean
Making the freely available and excellent Orbis data just a little bit more easy to use.
A LaTeX textbook devoted to explain how archaeologists can work with GRASS GIS
Simple VueJS page generating fake laws of Hammurabi.
Harris Matrix Visualization for the web using D3 + KLayJS-D3.
Write Graphviz dot files for archaeological sequence diagrams and Bayesian chronological models.
A Data Package specification for archaeological stratigraphy data following the Harris Matrix convention.
Create a Harris Matrix from archaeological stratigraphy data using Python and Graphviz.
harris2graph is a script to help migrate data from the LST file format used by the BASP Harris, Stratify and ArchEd packages into modern graph file formats.
A web-based data management infrastructure that allows researchers to design, create, manage, analyse and publish their own richly-structured database(s) through a simple web interface, without the need for programmers or consultants.
Tool for assisted geocoding of historical datasets (something between a manual table editing and automated geocoding script)
Historical Street View API
A mobile application for the intuitive recording of human bones from archaeological sites.
Set of formal methods for studying archaeological iconographic datasets (rock-art, pottery decoration, stelae, etc.) using network and spatial analysis.
The German Archaeological Institute’s (DAI) new take on a field research documentation system. Combining features of GIS, photo management, and database management systems in a unique and integrating manner, it aims at facilitating archaeological workflows by reducing the overhead of using multiple systems. Developed in-house by the DAI’s information technology department, it targets primarily the needs of the institute’s excavations, older ones as well as those to come. Yet, due to the nature of its adjustable data model and the fact it is open source software, any interested third party is free to reuse and adjust it to their needs.
The goal of idaifieldR is to flexibly get data from the idaifield database into R.
Shortcodes to describe inclusions in ceramic bodies.
The IntCal20 radiocarbon calibration curves are provided here in a single data package, together with previous IntCal curves and postbomb curves.
An indexing service for chronological information. Information can be viewed as webpages or downloaded as data files in different formats.
IOSACal is an open source tool for radiocarbon calibration
Enables the creation of a high quality 3D model of an archaeological artefact via process known as photo-masking.
An annotated list of open source tools for academics.
Ishtar is a database project for managing archaeological data and documentation from archaeological operations, that prioritizes maximum traceability of the information. Designed to enable inter-database communication, the Ishtar project aims rather to a distributed information model than a centralized one: communication between the databases is favored.
Open access and collaborative isotope database for bioarcheological samples.
Data visualization guidelines for stable isotopes graphs, with examples
Data and script to generate a map of the Netherlands for isotopic analyses
Ternary plots made simple.
Resources relevant to visualisation of isotopic results
3D amphitheatres.
Restoring and attributing ancient texts using deep neural networks.
Interactively guides the user through a number of questions, ending in a specific pathology diagnosis.
Analysis of Chronological Patterns from Archaeological Count Data.
Tools for converting between Maya and Western calendars.
Colour Schemes for Archaeological Data Visualization
Shiny application that provides subadult age estimations based on dental and skeletal development and skeletal diaphyseal metrics using pre-optimized mixed cumulative probit models.
Script for conducting K-means cluster analysis using R. This script provides output designed to help the user select an appropriate cluster solution.
Calculate the capacity of a ceramic vessel, like an amphora.
Codes for performing kriging for ethnographic and archaeological data.
Routines to read and analyze LA-ICP-MS data from the Field Museum’s Elemental Analysis Facility
Application for creating stratigraphic diagrams and checking the consistency of the chronostratigraphic recording.
Provides the functionality to calculate Least Cost Paths (LCPs) which are often, but not exclusively, used in archaeological research. This package can be used to apply multiple cost functions when approximating the difficulty of moving across a landscape, as well as taking into account traversing across slope and other costs such as landscape features. This package also provides functionality to validate the accuracy of the computed LCP relative to another path.
Tool for calculating the largest empty circles and estimation of archaeological sites theoretically to be expected in region of interest, an implementation of the method published by Andreas Zimmermann and Karl Peter Wendt (2003).
Table of faunal analyses from archaeological sites in the Levant.
Moran’s I and Getis-Ord G* Analysis.
.obj slicing for lithic 3d morphometrics.
An R package for processing and analyzing 3D scans of archaeological lithics.
A GNU Octave toolkit for analyzing diaphyseal long bone cross sectional geometry.
Development version of the R package ‘Luminescence’. The R package ‘Luminescence’ by the R-Luminescence Group provides a collection of various R functions for luminescence dating data analysis.
R package to simulate a Luminescence Reader
Climate Response and Virginia Archaeology: Maps from Different Points of View
Analyse geomagnetic data from archaeological context
Known pyramids of Ancient Egypt using python + OpenStreetMap.
Visualizes digital archaeology as a fantasy landscape.
Loading a Marble Plan fragment.
Software to annotate, train, using deep learning, and segment imagery data from UAVs or other platforms.
Simple web app that helps to bulk follow archaeologists on the FOSS microblogging service Mastodon.
A list of resources and materials for research on the history of Early Islam and the Late Antique Near East.
An online tool for the comparative analysis of museum databases.
Tools for converting between Maya and Western calendars.
Script for calculating mean ceramic dates based on tabular data. This script also estimates sampling error using a bootstrapping procedure.
These tools are meant to help you render orthographic views of 3D models for archaeological publication by simplifying, segmenting, cleaning and rendering 3D meshes.
You have a sequence of numbered items and want to check if any are missing.
An R package that provides types and functions for spatiotemporal interpolation of human genetic ancestry components, probabilistic similarity search and the calculation of a derived measure for mobility estimation.
Morphological analysis for archaeology.
Provide a pipeline from shape data extraction to typological arrangement of pottery profiles.
Shiny implementation of morphotype.
Analysis of Archaeological Mortality Data.
A tool for automatically measuring tree-ring width using image processing techniques.
Provides easy access to, and manipulation of, the Munsell colours
Make a stratigraphic-style plot-schematic of sediment colour using munsell values
This Python library was written as an help for the study of stone walls, mainly through the quantitative analysis of spatial dimensions of stones.
Analytical Dashboard for conducting various analysis to group and assess groupings for Neutron Activation Analytical chemical compositional data
The modular library of the Network for Agent-based modelling of Socio-ecological systems in Archaeology
R script for analyzing presence/absence data in irregularly distributed archaeological survey units.
Implements Near Presence Cluster Analysis, a statistical method for identifying spatial clustering within presence / absence data observed in irregularly distributed areal observation units.
R Shiny Document - Visualizing model functions in Neimans ‘Stylistic variation in evolutionary perspective’ with an interactive document.
Shiny app to search and filter radiocarbon dates from various source databases, based on the R package c14bazAAR.
Programmatic R interface to the Neotoma Paleoecological Database
Dataset of 10,647 radiocarbon dates from the Near East from the Late Pleistocene until the Late Holocene (ca. 14 - 2 kya BP).
Management system for physical storage of archaeological finds
Sourcing Archaeological Materials by Chemical Composition.
The nimbleCarbon package provides utility functions and bespoke probability distributions for the Bayesian analyses of radiocarbon dates using the NIMBLE framework. The package is particularly dedicated to demographic inferences based on changing frequencies of radiocarbon dates.
A set of GNU Octave functions for biodistance analysis based on non-metric traits.
Exchange data format (XML) for NoNeK (Nordmitteleuropäische Neolithische Keramik).
Metadata scheme for National Register of Historic Places, transcribed from the National Park Service NPS Bulletin 16
An introduction to the issues, methods, and techniques of digital archaeology, integrated with working code and virtual computing environments or ’notebooks’ written in Python or R.
Forms for the Open Data Kit mobile data collection app.
Open Data Kit forms and conversion scripts used in archaeology. Including New Mexico LA Forms, photologs, etc
The data index considers a collection of research areas that broadly stroke an idea of the level of completeness in the knowledge of a given period and timeframe.
OpenAccessArchaeology.org is dedicated to helping people discover and use Open Access resources in the field of Archaeology.
A web-GIS platform containing spatial historical and archaeological data.
A list of open source archaeological software and resources.
This project represents the current evolution of Open Context. It’s intended to be an easier to maintain code-base, and to make the data published by Open Context easier to maintain.
Project to create community awareness of open science practices, provide training and establish a working group for open science.
Open Archaeology hosts a number of sub-projects that while functional at a component level are intended to interoperate creating a complete AIS (Archaeological Information System), including the components necessary to manage the organisation carrying out the archaeology.
An open source, web based database system for complex archaeological, historical and geospatial data.
An R API client for the Open Context archaeological data repository.
A QGIS plug-in that provides one-step-processing of airborne LiDAR data from point cloud to LiDAR visualisations.
osl_calibration
Plot data on skeletal templates quickly
Tools for osteometric sorting of human remains.
A simple app for tracing outlines of an irregular shape and exporting the coordinates of the outline.
An R package to derive outline shapes from (multiple) artefacts on JPEG images.
A collection of functions that can be used to execute OxCal from within R.
A function for retrieving metrics for resistance-resilience from rcarbon permTest objects.
Global archaeological radiocarbon dataset
Scrubbing program for the global archaeological radiocarbon dataset
An R package implementing functions to perform spatio-temporal paleoclimate reconstruction from tree-rings using the CAR (Correlation Adjusted corRelation) approach of Zuber and Strimmer.
Towards a data standard for paleoanthropology.
R package for interacting with the Paleocore API
An R package to analyse sedimentary charcoal records from the Global Charcoal Database to reconstruct past biomass burning
The goal of paleoxrf is to simplify reading data from Acadia’s paleoenvironmental X-Ray Fluorescence laboratory
Methods to easily extract and manipulate palaeoclimate reconstructions for ecological and anthropological analyses.
R Package to reconstruct paths using archaeological monuments, model parameters of infrastructure and evaluate those parameters, model parameters of infrastructure and evaluate those parameters.
Protocol to vecotorize archaeological or architectonic legacy data.
Script to convert a folder of Dutch archaeological reports (PDFs) to XML files nested by section, chapter, heading.
Proto-Elamite sign list.
This is a collection of datasets for photogrammetry.
Created for the very-specific purpose of communicating via android with a raspberry pi running a scanner.
Piwigo plugin for viewing 3D models using 3DHOP.
Pure Locational Clustering.
Platform-independent versions of Pleiades gazetteer data.
Distance matrices between islands normalised over Pleistocene time.
Distance matrices between islands normalised over Pleistocene time. A complete ground-up rebuild of PleistoDist for use with R.
tutorial on an intuitive way to visualise a dental inventory in a sample
An open-access database for geochemical sourcing of archaeological materials.
Point Pattern Analysis.
some tools in respect to pollen data processing.
This simulation tool aims to help students and researchers to start to see what pollen looks like under the microscope, and start to identify common pollen grains.
Poseidon is a framework that seeks to provide standardized ways to store and share archaeogenetic, and perhaps more broadly, molecular archaeological datasets.
An automated process to detect buildings within large sets of postholes in multi-occupational sites, similar to the obsolete Windows-software “posthole” by Irwin Scollar.
Python implementation of postAAR.
A Google Doc with different archaeological and anthropological datasets and resources for students who need to make changes to their project due to COVID-19
A tutorial for (archaeological) predictive mapping using r
A package to analyze data used to determine whether samples from multiple sources can be separated, to predict the sources of samples from unknown sources, and to evaluation the validity of those predictions. Sample data can include both quantitative and qualitative data. The package includes functions for creating an analysis file from multiple files and exploratory data analysis, as well as multivariate statistical methods to determine source separation, predict sources of unknown samples, and evaluate the validity of the predictions (principal components, classification trees, and random forests).
python qgis plugin of recexcavAAR’s archprofile
An open access digital archive of antique Christian texts.
R package for processing pXRF data.
A python plugin for QGIS aimed at managing data from archaeological contexts on the GIS platform
Python library to access data in the GEOROC database.
A python package to curate Pofatu data.
Some scripts that could be useful for QGIS users.
Models relationships between elements in a terrain model, connecting pixels according to their height difference.
Calculates visible surface from a given observer point over a digital elevation model. The plugin is intended for more complex modelling, such as the depth below the visible horizon or generation of intervisibilty networks between groups of points. It is particularly performant for multiple viewshed calculations form a set of fixed points.
Scripts to create QR-Code images for storage boxes. Each box has an associated web page describing its content, and the QR-Code serves as a short-link from the physical object to the web page.
R Library for Quantitative Analysis in Archaeology.
Finding quantum in archaeological data using cosine quantogram and related statistical methods.
A database interface designed to facilitate the irregular, iterative, and non-linear workflows that are commonly employed in lithic analysis.
Data Analysis and Visualization in R for Archaologists, modified from the Data Carpentry R Workshop for Ecologists.
This contains a set of data about human mobility, subsistance, population, and environmental productivity derived from the Standard Cross Cultural Sample
Contains data and R code for our article on computational text analysis of racism in archaeology.
Computer-Assisted Shape Classification of Archaeological Pottery Fragments.
Scrapers for public radiocarbon databases
Backend for one of the largest 14C-Database online.
Roman amphitheater data as R package
A repository of radiocarbon data for Rapa Nui.
Online textbook about how tackle a wide range of problems using R.
A package for Bayesian age-depth modelling of sediment cores, constrained by prior information on sedimentation rates and their variability.
The R package ‘RCarb’ provides a collection of various R functions to model dose rates in carbonate-rich samples. The package is a translation of the ‘MATLAB’ program Carb by Roger P. Nathan
Methods for calibrating and analysing radiocarbon dates
An R package to facilitate the use of Murail et al.’s (1999) approach of sex estimation in past populations.
R package for 3D reconstruction of archaeological excavations.
Tools for estimating parameters for Radiocarbon-dated Event Count (REC) Models.
Platform for crowdsourcing the digital recreation of lost heritage
RGPR is a free and open-source software package to read, export, analyse, process and visualise ground-penetrating radar (GPR) data
rintchron provides an R interface to IntChron, an indexing service and exchange format for chronological data such as radiocarbon dates.
Solving Ordinary Differential Equations to Understand Luminescence
Rock art object detection model.
Create visualizations from laserscans.
Reconstructing rock art chronology with transfer learning
A text analysis program to explore online content about prehistoric rock art.
Functions for analysing and visualizing rates of evolution.
A dataset of Roman amphitheaters.
A dataset and discussion relating to Roman amphitheaters
Map of the Roman Empire made with vector tiles
These are geojson files relevant to Roman history. Initially they are all derived from the Ancient World Mapping Center’s set of CC-BY-NC licensed shapefiles.
An interactive database of construction materials used in antiquity meant to enable creation of 3D and virtual reality (VR) models of historic structures.
Room Accumulation Simulation ro estimate archaeological population growth rates.
Orbis data as an R package
Included in the following list are links to digital project dealing with geography and the ancient world.
R interface for open paleoclimate data.
Roman Peasant Project Small Finds Ontology
Brings together a range of methods for analysing the time series, shapes and other properties of archaeological artefacts.
Series of common tols used by most Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) projects, plus some custom programs to help with the workflow from the camera to the output.
A software interface to a set of tools that process your captured image set to produce the final RTI files. The RTIBuilder download includes the Hemispherical Harmonics (HSH) fitter to create .rti files.
Enables you to view and explore Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) files at very high resolution (Polynomial Texture Maps, Hemispherical Harmonics Map, and Multiview RTI). You can view image files stored on your local file system, and remote files through HTTP.
Ruby gem for fast radiocarbon calibration.
Radiocarbon dates for the spread of farming and ceramics in tropical South America.
R package: wrapper for the C+library xylib
Performs the Splitting-Coalescence-Estimation Method to model birth seasonality in studies of herd animals.
Viewer for the Herculaneum Papyri segments.
dsanalysis is the backbone of the sdsbrowser webapp, and can be employed to analyse SDS stone artefact data in R.
sdsbrowser is an R Shiny WebApp developed to make the available SDS datasets (following the Systematic and Digital Documentation of Stone Artefacts recording system) more accessible. It is designed to give you a quick overview on the spatial and temporal scope of sites previously analysed with SDS and the distribution of artefacts within these sites.
R Shiny application that allows easy and quick exploration of the spatial distribution of archaeological objects.
A toolbox for modelling human perception of topography for QGIS, based on QGIS viewshed module.
R package that provides the infrastructure for ordering objects with an implementation of several seriation/sequencing/ordination techniques to reorder matrices, dissimilarity matrices, and dendrograms (see below for a full list). Also provides (optimally) reordered heatmaps, color images and clustering visualizations like dissimilarity plots, and visual assessment of cluster tendency plots (VAT and iVAT).
Algorithms, implementations, manuscripts, and test cases for iterative deterministic frequency seriation done by agglomeration.
Excel file containing macro commands making it possible to transform a 1/0 table (presence / absence) into a graphic matrix treated by matrix permutations; it is possible to take into account the uncertain presence of a character. The instructions for use are contained in the file.
The EPPM serograph is a graphical tool for chronological serialization of archaeological furniture counting tables.
Uses machine learning models to predict the Sex of unknown skeletons based on their cranial and postcranial measurements.
This is an R package for the extraction, analysis and classification of (not only) archaeological objects derived from scanned images. Especially it aims at the analysis of the shapes/profiles of eg. ceramic vessels or arrow heads.
graphical interface for DRAC
Shiny app for TL dating
Package for downloading and preparing shkr data for archaeological analysis
Back-end and middleware for the ShootPoints Web total station surveying program.
User interface to the ShootPoints Web total station surveying program.
Offers methods to shoreline date Stone Age sites located along the Norwegian Skagerrak coast based on their present-day elevation and the trajectory of past relative sea-level change.
Extract text from archaeological photos containing a sign board and tag as metadata.
This R package contains exactly one function, that calculates the “sum of individual weighted means” according to a methodology that is quite common among archaeologists and was first published in 1988 by Elisabeth Fentress and Philip Perkins.
This repo contains the code for an interactive website created to illustrate historical background, findings and data of the Siponto excavation site (Manfredonia, Italy)
The goal of sitedefinition is to see how feature densities might be used for site definition.
A GNU Octave function for skeletal sex estimation.
A concrete way of extracting cranial mophometric features.
An R package for data reduction, visualization and analysis in skyscape archaeology, archaeoastronomy and cultural astronomy.
The Soil Texture Wizard is a set of R functions designed to produce texture triangles (also called texture plots, texture diagrams, texture ternary plots), classify and transform soil textures data
A set of extra utilities that extend the functionlaity provided by core packages for spatial data management and analysis in R.
Statistical pattern recognition and dating using archaeological artefacts assemblages.
Analysis of spatial gradients in radiocarbon dates.
Estimation of human stature from long bone measurements according to several well established estimation formula.
Explore and share your favourite archaeological sites and itineraries.
Stratibase is a minimal field recording database application (currently in FileMaker FP7 format software), aimed at the simplest structure possible to perform the basic functions of a stratigraphic recording.
R package for archaeological stratigraphy and chronological sequences.
A set of best practices, how-tos and implementations for publishing pottery drawings on the Web
A collection of archaeological datasets and tools related to the prehistory of Southwest Asia.
Synthetic Categories for Archaeological Vessel Comparison.
Analysis, Seriation and Visualization of Archaeological Count Data.
Enables you to create geometries directly from tachymeter input while at the same time adding vertices manually.
QGIS plugin for documentation of archaeological features using Tachy2GIS.
Ancient animal occurrence data from Uerpmann 1987, The Ancient Distribution of Ungulate Mammals in the Middle East, TAVO A27.
R package that allows programmatic access to the Digital Archaeological Record (tDAR), a service of Digital Antiquity.
A collection of texts, 3d models, and maybe other resources useful for teaching about the Roman Empire.
Calculate dental indices and lesion ratios.
Tools for Quantitative Archaeology - in R.
An open source, web application for the presentation of archaeological data especially for burial studies.
A selected yet comprehensive list of literature and resources on Agent Based Models (ABM) in Archaeology.
This publication systematically describes ancient-world information resources on the world-wide web. The bibliographic data presented herein has been programmatically extracted from the content of AWOL - The Ancient World Online (ISSN 2156-2253) and formatted in accordance with a structured data model.
A set of analyses to control for variable taphonomic impacts on archaeological faunal datasets.
This package simplifies a few workflows when working with multi-proxy paleo-archive data
Converts time period entities to standardised date ranges.
TIPOM is based on a methodology that was developed in the 1960s by Bernardino Bagolini. The basic idea is to use the three simple dimensions of length, width and thickness of each lithic artefact to classify them in discrete groups and infer their function.
R package for TL dating
Keith KintighTools for Quantitative Archaeology TFQA, is a package of more than 45 PC programs developed to satisfy several unusual analytical needs of archaeologists.
Tool for Online Seriation and Correspondence Analysis.
Manuals for total stations
Total Open Station downloads and exports survey data from your total station.
A plugin to connect with totalopenstation software developed as part of the IOSA project.
Tools to use and manipulate total station data
Utility for graphically displaying a set of termini post quem induced from stratified archaeological artifacts.
GIS toolbox for estimating the duration of ancient sail-powered navigation.
Includes an agent-based model (ABM) of cultural transmission that simulates the three main forms of transmission bias: content bias, frequency bias, and demonstrator bias.
Interactive graphical user interface to aid in the interpretation of blunt-force rib trauma in forensic anthropology casework.
Plugin for drawing trenches.
TRiDaS is a universal data exchange standard for the dendrochronology community. This project contains the data standard itself as well as libraries and tools useful for reading, writing and converting dendro data files.
AutoCAD tutotial for archaeologists.
Tutorials on quantitative archaeology.
Using R with wikipedia for various things
Unconstrained Clustering.
R implementation of the Uniform Probability Density Analysis approach
Detect and Parse Historic Dates in R.
Compute closed- and open-system uranium-thorium (U-Th) ages of geological and archaeological samples.
Digitize archeological drawings of vessels in order to calculate their capacity and weight.
A community driven archaeological map of classical antiquity, inspired by and modelled after Wikipedia.
A page for video tutorials on R, specifically for archaeology
Visualizing XRF and NAA geochemistry concentrations.
Classification of unknown cases (e.g. archaeobotanical data or other modern weed survey data) using linear discriminant analysis to understand farming regimes.
Shiny app for interactive crossdating of tree-ring data.
The goal of xrf is to provide tools to read, plot, and interpret X-Ray fluorescence spectra
A worldwide database of chronological information from archaeological contexts, including radiocarbon and dendrochronological data.
yada, which stands for Yet Another Demographic Analysis package, supports a variety of demographic tasks, with most applications drawn from forensic anthroplogy and archaeology.
The zooaRch package provides analytical tools to make inferences on zooarchaeological data.
The zooaRchGUI package provides a Graphical User Interface (GUI) to analytical tools for zooarchaeological data in the R package.
Produce mixture models of zooarchaeological measurement data to estimate the proportion of immature, adult-sized female, and adult-sized male specimens in an assemblage.
Manipulate log-ratios (also known as log size index (LSI) values) from measurements obtained on zooarchaeological material.
