Mastodawn

Just back from the 53rd CAA conference in Vienna! 🏛️ A packed week – I presented the KIŠIB project, co-organised an archaeogaming session with Aris Politopoulos (10 talks, consistently high quality!), and was impressed by new approaches to automatic cuneiform translation.
The organisation was excellent, and the ice breaker was hard to beat. New blog post with my full report:https://itsmoreofacomment.com/2026/04/10/caa-2026-in-vienna-a-conference-report/

#CAA2026 #DigitalArchaeology #Archaeogaming #Vienna

Sohini Mallick Apr 9

My department at the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre is organising this event on AI/ML for Computational Humanities and Social Sciences in September! Do submit an abstract if this is relevant to your work.
Deadline: 15th May
https://www.bsc.es/news/events/workshop-aiml-applied-methods-computational-social-sciences-and-humanities-research

#DigitalArchaeology #DigitalHumanities #AI

Workshop on AI/ML Applied Methods in Computational Social Sciences and Humanities Research

BSC-CNS

N-gated Hacker News Mar 28

Ah, the digital archaeologists have risen from their basements to resurrect a 1991 classic, because clearly, Civilization 1 was just *too cutting-edge* for modern minds to handle. ⚰️🔧 Meanwhile, #GitHub is busy drowning us in #buzzwords like "Copilot" and "Spark" to make sure we know they're still pretending to invent the future. 🚀🙄
https://github.com/rajko-horvat/OpenCiv1 #digitalarchaeology #retrogaming #Civilization1 #techhumor #HackerNews #ngated

GitHub - rajko-horvat/OpenCiv1: Open source rewrite of the original Civilization 1 Game designed by Sid Meier and Bruce Shelley in year 1991

Open source rewrite of the original Civilization 1 Game designed by Sid Meier and Bruce Shelley in year 1991 - rajko-horvat/OpenCiv1

GitHub

N-gated Hacker News Mar 24

🚀 Breaking news: someone ported a 1990s graphics driver to an obscure OS from the same era! 🎉 Only die-hard retro-computing enthusiasts and digital archaeologists are losing their minds over this groundbreaking achievement. 😂 Next up: getting Doom to run on a toaster. 🍞
https://sdz-mods.com/index.php/2026/03/23/irix-3dfx-voodoo-driver-glide2x-irix-port/ #retrocomputing #digitalarchaeology #graphicsdriver #gamingnews #toasters #HackerNews #ngated

Leon Furze Oct 24, 2023

Digital plastic: Generative AI and the digital ecosystem

I've got a love hate relationship with the metaphors we use to talk about Artificial Intelligence, but at the risk of seeming hypocritical I'm going to make one anyway. I'm also going to mangle several fields of science, geology, and archaeology in the process, but hey, it's all in the pursuit of The Metaphor. I want you to imagine a digital archaeologist, some time in the distant future, digging through the strata of online data. Maybe it's a person you're imagining - probably an academic […]

https://leonfurze.com/2023/10/25/digital-plastic-generative-ai-and-digital-ecosystem/

Jeremy Huggett Mar 5

A terrific range of #archaeology projects funded by the Heritage Science Data Service, with some interesting Virtual Research Environment developments as well as data resources ...

https://hsds.ac.uk/deposit-data/smallgrant_success2026/

#digitalarchaeology #digitalhumanities

Small Grants – Funded Projects 2026

HSDS

N-gated Hacker News Mar 2

🎉🥳 Oh joy, another riveting 13-minute piece promising a 2-minute hack! 🎈🚀 Apparently, Claude Code users are still in the Stone Age, grepping around like digital archaeologists. 🗿🔍 Install #LSP and watch your codebase confusion level drop from "headless chicken" to "mildly lost puppy." 🐔🐶
https://karanbansal.in/blog/claude-code-lsp/ #HackerNews #ClaudeCode #CodeOptimization #TechHumor #DigitalArchaeology #HackerNews #ngated

The 2-Minute Claude Code Upgrade You're Probably Missing: LSP

Every Claude Code user is running without LSP. That means 30-60s grep searches instead of 50ms precise answers.

ghostdancer Feb 27

Limpiando cajones y demás para subir cosas al trastero ha aparecido un artefacto de tiempos antiguos. #arqueologiadigital
Cleaning some drawers to put on crates to take to the junk room I've found an ancient artifact.
#digitalarchaeology

N-gated Hacker News Feb 25

🚀✨ Ah, the birthplace of the internet—where you can nostalgically click through the pixels of yore like a digital archaeologist discovering an ancient tomb of boredom! 🤖🔍 Because who wouldn’t want to explore the prehistoric web through a #linemode browser simulator? Cue the sound of dial-up connecting... 📞👾
https://info.cern.ch #internet #nostalgia #digitalarchaeology #browserhistory #dialup #HackerNews #ngated

http://info.cern.ch

Sebastian Hageneuer Feb 15

Some good news: I won the 2025 Teaching Award at the University of Cologne's Faculty of Arts & Humanities for my 3D documentation and modelling courses! 🎓 I wrote a blog post reflecting on what this means to me – why good teaching needs time, why practical components are often neglected in academia, and why awards like this matter for making teaching visible.

https://itsmoreofacomment.com/2026/02/13/teaching-award-2025-and-why-good-teaching-needs-time/

#DigitalArchaeology #AcademicTeaching #3DArchaeology