id
	12957
Url
	https://chloe.cnr.it/s/BiDiAr/item/12957
Resource template
	Academic Article
Resource class
	bibo:AcademicArticle
Title
	The data deluge
Creator
	Bevan, Andrew
Date
	2015
Language
	eng
Abstract
	Archaeology has wandered into exciting but daunting territory. It faces floods of new evidence about the human past that are largely digital, frequently spatial, increasingly open and often remotely sensed. The resulting terrain is littered, both with data that are wholly new and data that were long known about but previously considered junk. This paper offers an overview of this diluvian information landscape and aims to foster debate about its wider disciplinary impact. In particular, I would argue that its consequences: a) go well beyond the raw challenges of digital data archiving or manipulation and should reconfigure our analytical agendas; b) can legitimately be read for both utopian and dystopian disciplinary futures; and c) re-expose some enduring tensions between archaeological empiricism, comparison and theory-building.
Is Part Of
	Antiquity
Cited by
	10152
Doi
	https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2015.102
Issn
	0003-598X, 1745-1744
Issue
	348
Pages
	1473-1484
Uri
	https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/abs/data-deluge/D77DE6754E82D6972581F95541EC23F6
Volume
	89
Homepage
	https://www.zotero.org/groups/5293298/bidiar/items/3762UC2R/item-list

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