Text by: Monika Karmin, Catherine Upex and Rachel Wood   The visiting researchers from University of Udayana (UNUD), Davao Medical School Foundation Incorporation (DMSFI) and University of Papua New Guinea (UPNG) arrived in Bristol in summer 2025. They came to an intensive ‘Data Camp’ to first learn quantitative methods, then apply these to OCSEAN linguistic dataset while in Bristol and then take the skills back home to apply in their research projects.   The linguistic datas

Open data in  Archaeology In its quest at integrating linguistics, genetics, and archaeological observation in a single analytical framework, the OCSEAN project is facing a major challenge: the non-standardized, poorly available, and sparse nature of archaeological data.  This problem is not new. All along the development of archaeology as a scientific discipline, multiple calls were stated in favour of openly sharing structured and reusable data: from, among many others, Jea

Between July 20 and August 2, 2024, a team from the University of the South Pacific and The Fiji Museum took part in archaeological research on Vanua Levu (Fiji) in the Provinces of Bua and Macuata. The project is a collaboration funded by the University of the South Pacific Research Office and European Commission via OCSEAN. The project was designed to address questions related to two shell midden deposits and to train local students in archaeological methods during the fiel

We are very glad to announce that OCSEAN second Summer School will be held in Tartu, the European Culture Capital of 2024 , also known as the home of the Kissing Students, and the City of Good Thoughts. Summer School will be hosted by the University of Tartu , the oldest university in Estonia. We invite all OCSEAN members to join. Summer School 2024 will be yet another capacity building event covering topics of Heritages Studies: Folkloristics; Ethnobotany & Biocultural Diver