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Take, for example, the rich Viking Period graves of Birka. They are absolutely essential for research into that period. But Stolpe excavated and documented them in the 1870s and 1880s. Then the finds and bones and paper archive were not very well curated in a museum until the 1930s, when Arbman collated the information, and published it in the 1940s. Finally both versions of what these graves were like was put online ten years ago.

Now and then people from data science suggest to me that they should be able to do something interesting with big archaeological data. But there's a naïveté in their concept of "data". I always sigh and tell them that they have no idea how unstandardised our data are. Even if you could scan it all from the paper media it's on, any pattern-seeking algorithm would primarily catch the history of changing archaeological documentation practices.

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Archaeologists uncover rock-cut cellars and historic quarry beneath Paderborn’s historic center

An excavation led by archaeologists from the Westphalia-Lippe Regional Association in Germany has unearthed a series of basement rooms and a former quarry beneath the historic center of Paderborn...

More information: archaeologymag.com/2025/03/roc

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A statue of a Roman sea God had its head ritually cut off before it was buried. The artefact was found a little distance from the old Roman road known as Watling Street. Archaeologists found it during a dig along with other items such as a Roman coin, but historians are baffled as to why the statue was ritually decapitated and then buried.

kentonline.co.uk/sittingbourne

Kent Online · Statue discovered next to A2 was ‘ritually decapitated’ before burialBy Joe Crossley