OCSEAN Workshop on modelling archaeological data March 8 - 10 in Pühajärve, Estonia brings together researchers from the fields of archaeology, genomics, and data modelling. Scientist from several partner universities and guest presenters gathered to tackle questions of archaeological data modelling possibilities, challenges, and potential new avenues of research. Within two days of presentations, exchange of ideas and brainstorming on current research in the fields of Pacific archaeology, anthropology and data science, the participants explored the avenues of modelling archaeological data with state-of-the-art computational and statistical methods.
Presenters:
Mark Beaumont, University of Bristol
Adrian Bell, University of Utah
Martin Bodner, Medical University, Innsbruck
David Burley, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver
Ethan Cochrane, University of Auckland
Phillip Endicott, University of Tartu
Daniel Lawson, University of Bristol
Sèbastien Plutniak, University of Tours
Hugo Reyes-Centanao, University of Kentucky
François-Xavier Ricaut, University of Toulouse
Gaston Rijo de Leon, Institute Pasteur of Paris
Aivar Kriiska, University of Tartu
Bayazit Yunusbajev, University of Tartu
Ragi-Martin Moon, University of Tartu
Maris Niinesalu-Moon, University of Tartu
Phillip Endicott, University of Tartu
The workshop ended with tours in the University of Tartu two main departments contributing to OCSEAN:
1) Department of Archaeology - overview of collections and projects, methods available; and
2) Institute of Genomics - introduction of ancient DNA lab, Estonian Biocenter, Estonian Genome Center.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 873207.
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