Hi all,
You may have noticed that we will be reading a couple of articles from an issue in the Journal of Field Archaeology on digital practice in archaeology. As a conference proceedings, it tends to be all over the place in theme. But what is interesting is a take on this publication that talks of archaeology "finally" embracing digital humanities' approach to practice. Interesting, given how deep digital practices and reflexivity we've seen has been in archaeology for so long. In my mind, there is this "re-discovering" the digital in archaeology (the archaeology in the digital?) that pops up again and again, though it tends to re-invent the past in the re-discovery. What tends to happen, mostly, though, is that it tends to widen the definition further... or water it down, depending on your perspective. This have been going on since archaeologists first brought their data to the "computer room/building" to advance new insights... which ironically are now inviting new material research on the making of punch cards !
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