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Andy Postantiquarian @postantiquarian@archaeo.social

· 1w ago

A quick heads up to the #rstats and #archaeology types out there. If you are teaching or learning R for archaeology, avoid this book. I just bought it, opened it up and it is 100% AI generated (and laid out by the looks of it) slop. I paid 35 Euro for the bloody thing too! (refunded now of course)

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Andy Postantiquarian @postantiquarian@archaeo.social

· 6mo ago

Did you know that if you calculate thiessen polygons for every stone circle on the island of Britain that you get a very pretty picture which tells you absolutely nothing relevant at all? Pretty though.

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Andy Postantiquarian @postantiquarian@archaeo.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@mrundkvist

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Andy Postantiquarian @postantiquarian@archaeo.social

· 5mo ago

RE: @VanessaK@mastodon.scot

I am so glad that I had this fella's books as a young lad. He made me laugh, think, and not turn out an absolute dipshit.

mastodon.scot

Vanessa Knipe: "I believe it is Sir Terry Pratchett day." - mastodon.scot

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Andy Postantiquarian @postantiquarian@archaeo.social

· 5mo ago

The cyberpunk future didn't turn out quite the way that I thought it would.

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Andy Postantiquarian @postantiquarian@archaeo.social

· 5mo ago

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@electricarchaeo@scholar.social that's approaching what I imagine higher learning would look like in a post revolutionary anarchist future.

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Andy Postantiquarian @postantiquarian@archaeo.social

· 5mo ago

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@ProtoWestAsiaTidbits@archaeo.social brilliant! If you could send it to andy at postantiquarian.de that would be great.

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Andy Postantiquarian @postantiquarian@archaeo.social

· 5mo ago

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@ASprinkleofSage@mastodon.social a bit of both but I would imagine that their destruction over the millennia to make room for farming would be a large part. The lack of good stone on the chalk downs would also be a factor. It could be interesting to add in timber circles to the data and see what happens in the south east.

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Andy Postantiquarian @postantiquarian@archaeo.social

· 5mo ago

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@CAA_int cool, thanks. I've been searching online but can't find anything.

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Andy Postantiquarian @postantiquarian@archaeo.social

· 6mo ago

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@redthewizard@wandering.shop it does that, but I get the feeling that this density is more to do with clava style burial cairns which are sometimes surrounded by a circle of small megaliths but aren't the classical stone circle that we general associate with the term.

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Andy Postantiquarian @postantiquarian@archaeo.social

· 6mo ago

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@CAA_int cool! I wish that I had seen that before. I'm going to see if I can find a way to make it this year anyway. The program looks really interesting.

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Andy Postantiquarian @postantiquarian@archaeo.social

· 5mo ago

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@CAA_int have the 2019 proceedings from Krakow been published yet? If so, where? I can't find them for the life of me.

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Andy Postantiquarian @postantiquarian@archaeo.social

· 7mo ago

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@CAA_int will the sessions be filmed?

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Andy Postantiquarian @postantiquarian@archaeo.social

· 6mo ago

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@CAA_int that would be great because my student budget wouldn't stretch to the ticket plus accommodation in Vienna. So there's no way it will get me to Santiago. XD

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Andy Postantiquarian @postantiquarian@archaeo.social

· 5mo ago

[problem solved] Has anyone got a copy of the CAA Proceedings 2012? My university doesn't have a Taylor & Francis ebook sub and the more, ehem, nefarious routes to finding such things has failed me.

doi: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003690962

Specifically I want to have a look at the chapter "The Long and Winding Road" by Verhagen et al.

#archaeology
#digitalarchaeology

doi.org

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Andy Postantiquarian @postantiquarian@archaeo.social

· 5mo ago

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@ProtoWestAsiaTidbits@archaeo.social got it! Thanks ever so much. :)

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Andy Postantiquarian @postantiquarian@archaeo.social

· 6mo ago

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@yetiinabox@todon.nl it is pretty, that's very true. I would love to have all the data for Europe, Asia, Africa and so on.

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Andy Postantiquarian @postantiquarian@archaeo.social

· 6mo ago

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@redthewizard@wandering.shop could be. I did a semi-deep dive into that area and found a lot that weren't classical circles. There are a lot of recumbent circles in that area though. It's an interesting cluster regardless.

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