Abstract
Archaeologists and epigraphers have long worked in concert across methodological and theoretical differences to study past writing. Ongoing integration of digital technologies into both fields is extending this collaboration’s scope by facilitating rapid information exchange, integration of multiple datasets in digital formats, and accumulation and analysis of large datasets. Recent research by the Maya Hieroglyphic Database Project, for example, has deployed social network analysis to correlate ritual practice, discourse, and material culture with political interactions. Similarly, epigraphers and archaeologists of pre-Angkorian and Angkorian Southeast Asia have conducted spatial analysis to illuminate the relationship between economy, human mobility, and land use. Collectively, these examples illustrate how scholars are already using digital technologies for research at larger scales and with more diverse datasets than was previously possible. Moreover, they point to further directions for articulating text, material, and context in future studies of the human past.
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This research would not have been possible without the TWKM project and especially Katja Diederichs, Sven Gronemeyer, and Christian Prager, who first introduced me to the world of digital epigraphy. I benefitted greatly from many lively exchanges during the Visible Words study trip to Cambodia (May 2016) and workshop (October 2017), especially with John Bodel, Michèle Brunet, Sam Butler, Scott DiGiulio, Arlo Griffiths, Stephen Houston, Darrel Janzen, Christian Prager, and Nicolas Souchon. The thoughts expressed here were also influenced by conversations with Dmitri Beliaev, Albert Davletshin, Philipp Galeev, Alexander Safronov, Alexandre Tokovinine, and Sergei Vepretskii at the 2017 European Maya Conference in Malmö, Sweden; Parker VanValkenburgh and fellow students in his graduate seminar “Archaeology in the Digital Age” in fall 2016; and Carlos Pallán Gayol. Andrew Scherer and Stephen Houston offered perceptive feedback on initial drafts, and Gary Feinman, Alexandre Tokovinine, and three anonymous reviewers provided insightful comments that significantly contributed to the manuscript’s improvement. Any mistakes or omissions remain my own. This article took shape over the course of research conducted with support from a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (no. DGE 1058262), a NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (no. 1821867), and a CLIR-Mellon Fellowship for Dissertation Research in Original Sources.
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Matsumoto, M.E. Archaeology and Epigraphy in the Digital Era. J Archaeol Res 30, 285–320 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10814-021-09162-4
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