Citizen science, as a process of volunteer participation through crowdsourcing, facilitates the
creation of mass data sets needed to address subtle and large-scale patterns in complex�…

The Forum article “Grand Challenges for Archaeology”(Kintigh et al. 2014) defines a number
of leading research topics derived from a crowd-sourcing report and parsed by a panel of�…

Over the past several years, we have seen many attacks on publicly funded and mandated
archaeology in the United States. These attacks occur at the state level, where governors�…

This article represents a systematic effort to answer the question, What are archaeology's
most important scientific challenges? Starting with a crowd-sourced query directed broadly�…

Archaeology has a long tradition of volunteer involvement but also faces considerable
challenges in protecting and understanding a geographically widespread, rapidly dwindling�…

The study of nature and the environment by amateur natural historians pre-dates both the
professionalisation of science and modern definitions of the term 'citizen science'(eg�…

Bonacchi et al: Crowd-sourced Archaeological Research 62 professionals (Dunn and
Hedges 2012). This method emerged less than a decade ago in the commercial sector�…

In the face of increasing public interest and demand for information, archaeologists are
collaborating with historians, museum curators, and exhibit designers to devise the best�…

Big data have arrived in archaeology, in the form of both large-scale datasets themselves
and in the analytics and approaches of data science. Aerial data collected from satellite�…

Changing patterns of university and government research and training in this country and
abroad force us, as archaeologists, to regularly reevaluate our disciplinary methods and�…