The Reuse of Archaeological Data: Grand Challenges and New Approaches to Southern Levantine Mortuary Archaeology
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Sara Mura [1]
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[1] University of Leiden
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- Localización: New Frontiers in Archaeology: Proceedings of the Cambridge Annual Student Archaeology Conference 2019 / coord. por Kyra Kaercher, Monique Arntz, Nancy Bomentre, Xosé L. Hermoso Buxán, Kevin Day, Sabrina Ki, Ruairidh Macleod, Helena Muñoz Mojado, Lucy Timbrell, Izzy Wisher, 2019, ISBN 978-1-78969-794-0, págs. 60-74
- Idioma: español
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Resumen
This article represents an effort to better understand the potential issues that archaeologists can face when trying to combine old datasets in order to answer new interdisciplinary research questions. By using my research on southern Levantine funerary practices between 1100 BCE and 100 CE as a case study, I intend to confront the common ‘grand challenges’ archaeologists generally encounter when reusing, and necessarily trusting, data other scholars have collected. These challenges are organised into: 1) publication and accessibility, 2) methodologies and multidisciplinary approaches and 3) frameworks and taxonomy. This article does not pretend to provide a definitive solution to the analysed issues, but rather to produce a provocative review on long-standing underestimated difficulties. I argue the necessity to document and address these issues in order to better support data reuse in archaeology
