Jeffrey H. Altschul

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a systematic effort to answer the question, What are archaeology's most important scientific challenges? Starting with a crowd-sourced query directed broadly to the professional community of archaeologists, the authors augmented, prioritized, and refined the responses during a two-day workshop focused specifically on this question.

TL;DR: The question arose as the discipline sought to develop recommendations for investments in computational infrastructure that would enable the discipline to address its most compelling questions: what are archaeology’s most important scientific challenges?

TL;DR: This work proposes funding synthetic case studies that would demonstrate archaeology’s ability to contribute to transdisciplinary research on long-term social dynamics and serve as a context for developing computational tools and analytical workflows that will be necessary to attack these questions.

TL;DR: A vehicle by which collaborative synthetic research becomes a routine and institutionalized practice in archaeology is created—a budding effort that will not only benefit the discipline but will also enable researchers to communicate to the public the richly detailed stories of humanity itself.

TL;DR: In this article, Sustaining the Digital Archaeological Record Heritage Management: Vol 3, No 2, pp 264-274 is discussed. But the authors focus on the preservation of the digital archaeological record.