The Aggregation of ROAD Data in the ARIADNE Pipeline: pitfalls and successes

In this article we describe an online database about human evolution, called the ROCEEH Out of Africa Database (ROAD), and discuss our experience in aggregating Palaeolithic data from ROAD in the ARIADNE data processing pipeline. As of April 2023, ROAD contains more than 2400 localities in Africa an...

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Published in:Internet Archaeology
Main Authors: Andrew W. Kandel, Miriam N. Haidle, Volker Hochschild, Christian Sommer, Zara Kanaeva
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of York 2023-10-01
Subjects:
archaeology
human evolution
palaeolithic archaeology
palaeoanthropology
fair principles
road database
ariadne database
Online Access:https://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue64/9/index.html
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Summary:In this article we describe an online database about human evolution, called the ROCEEH Out of Africa Database (ROAD), and discuss our experience in aggregating Palaeolithic data from ROAD in the ARIADNE data processing pipeline. As of April 2023, ROAD contains more than 2400 localities in Africa and Eurasia dating between three million and 20,000 years ago. The database is transdisciplinary by nature and includes cultural artefacts, human and animal fossils, and plant remains. These finds are stored in a relational database, which is part of a structured, web-based, geographic information system. The process of preparing ROAD data for integration with ARIADNE taught us lessons about our own dataset, which we share here.
ISSN:1363-5387

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