An AI compares computational and digital archaeology
Can ChatGPT and Google Bard do it justice?! Read on to find out…
Posts about Computational Archaeology, Complexity Theory, GIS, Agent Based Modeling, and more…
2023
CAA 2023
My first CAA conference!
2021
Accessible pipelines for creating and sharing 3D heritage data
Based on a presentation for the Web3D 2021 conference
A sediment granulometry approach to anthropogenic landscape impacts
A case study from a small alluvial fan in southeast Kazakhstan (prepared for the 2021 SAA meeting)
2020
Resources for online archaeology labs
How will we convert our archaeology lab classes into meaningful online courses?
2019
Archaeology as Intellectual Service
How can archaeologists collaborate with community members and stakeholders to enhance the utility of archaeology for all?
Laborscapes and Archaeologies of Sustainability
New article on our work in Calabria, out now!
Water, Dust, and Agropastoralism
New article on our work in Kazakhstan, out now!
2018
What is ‘Computational Archaeology?’
Read on to find out!
The Anthropocene as the Physical Record of Social-Ecological Systems
How can we use the archaeological record to learn about the future?
Historic Water Management Infrastrucure in the San Pasquale Valley
Failing resilience of a locally-derived erosion control system
Open source digital data collection for field sciences.
My approach to an open-source data collection workflow.
Going Paperless in Calabria
An open-source mobile data collection workflow.
DroneSurveyPlanner v0.1 beta
A LibreOffice Calc spreadsheet designed to help you plan an aerial drone mapping survey mission.
2017
Professor Ullah’s List of Great Archaeology YouTube Videos
This is a list of YouTube videos to help you teach and learn about archaeology and ancient civilizations.
Open Science in Archaeology
Open Science in Archaeology article now out!
A Mobile Data-Collection Workflow for Archaeologists
A Mobile Data-Collection Workflow for Archaeologists…
Introducing the C-MAPLE Community Site
Introducing C-MAPLE, the Community for Modeling Agro-Pastoral Lifeways in Eurasia.
2017 SDSU Experimental Archaeology Workshop
SDSU students learn to make and use stone tools for science!
Script to automate creation of super resolution images from a series of handheld shots
Automate that super-resolution!
2016
Master Packing List for Overseas Archaeological Projects
What should you bring for overseas fieldwork?
Isaac’s List of FOSS tools for academics…
…and what to use them for!
2015
Kazakhstan fieldwork
Photographs and thoughts about landscape archaeology in southern Kazakstan
Towards a theory of punctuated subsistence change
A complexity theory approach to the origins of agriculture
Open sourcing archaeology
Thoughts on the 2015 SAA symposium on open methods in archaeology
2015 SAA Presentation
Complexity in space and time: spatio-temporal variability and scale in simulations of social-ecological systems
Inter- and Intra-scalar synchronicity in social-ecological systems
Some graphics about issues of scale and time in coupled human-natural systems
2014
Some thoughts on the origins of agriculture
Some of my current thinking about why and how people made the initial switch to food production