Benjamin Serbe

Real peer review has never been tried - Works in Progress Magazine Outdated forms of peer review create bottlenecks that slow science. But in a world where research can now circulate rapidly on the Internet, we need to develop new ways to do science in public.

Peer-review originally emerged in response to journals' need to boost their own reputation and to sieve through growing and increasing numbers of submissions that couldnt all simply be printed, not primarily for reasons of quality control:

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17.08.2025 16:07 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 1

It's out! 😀

THE MAP: EXPANSION OF FARMING IN WESTERN EURASIA, 9600-4000 BCE
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Regional updates, particularly 🇺🇦. Colour and greyscale resolutions, and much asked for colour code and legend.

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Large scale and regional demographic responses to climatic changes in Europe during the Final Palaeolithic The European Final Palaeolithic witnessed marked changes in almost all societal domains. Despite a rich body of evidence, our knowledge of human palaeodemographic processes and regional population dyn...

🥳 Finally out in PLOSone! ⚱️🦣 A big collaboration project led by Isabell Schmidt from Cologne University about #demography in Late #Palaeolithic Europe. This challenge to collect comparable data across different regions most of all showed the gaps in our knowledge.
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Great participation in our session on AI in Archaeology at #KielScales25. Many interesting talks, projects and ideas on how to use and deal with AI and ML applications.
A really wonderful discussion why "digital literacy" is also important for archaeological research.
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Peoples’ opportunities spur innovation 6,000 years ago The UN’s Human Development Index provides new explanations for the success of Europe’s first mega settlements.

A new philosophical-archaeological study by #ClusterROOTS members Vesa Arponen, René Ohlrau and Tim Kerig provides an analytical tool based on the #UnitedNations' #HumanDevelopmentIndex that can be applied directly to archaeological data. Read the whole story: www.uni-kiel.de/en/cluster-r...
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29.11.2024 10:53 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

Interlinking research: the Big Exchange project | Antiquity | Cambridge Core Interlinking research: the Big Exchange project - Volume 97 Issue 394

More Information on the project → doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
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Currently, our database is mainly focussed on neolithic Europe but we are expanding.
A first study was conducted, discussing the spread of the Linear Pottery Culture (Hilpert & Kerig _in print_) and a second, focussing on the transition between the Neolithic and Bronze Age is in preparation.
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Current datasets incorporated in Big Exchange and their distribution in time. Currently 20 different raw materials are incorporated. Different kinds of flint, precious stones (e.g. Lapis Lazuli, Jade), Spondylus shells, Amber, Tin, or Oxhide Ingots. From Kerig et. al. 2023

What is the Big Exchange Project?
The project is an international collaboration with archaeologists and network scientists to inverstigate lagre-scale exchange networks in Prehistoric Eurasia and Africa. We focus on raw materials with a distinct source which data are publically available.
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Really productive (and a bit exhausting) day at the HESCOR Working Group Meeting at the University of Cologne today. Discussing different ideas on prehistoric networks and future directions of the Big Exchange Project. 🏺

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HS2 Phase One: Heritage GIS Digital Archive (Data paper) This data paper highlights the GIS spatial datasets generated from the HS2 Phase One historic environment fieldwork programme. The paper explains the technical components of the datasets which are dep...

New in IA: HS2 Phase One: Heritage GIS Digital Archive (Data paper) doi.org/10.11141/ia.... by Fred Farshid Aryankhesal

Highlighting the GIS spatial datasets from HS2 Phase One historic environment fieldwork programme & explains the technical components of the ADS datasets

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