# Are 70 years too late? A FAIR articulation of legacy data, online visualisation tools, and repositories: the Haristoy-Oxocelhaya 1956 excavation

Sébastien Plutniak

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Sébastien Plutniak. Are 70 years too late? A FAIR articulation of legacy data, online visualisation tools, and repositories: the Haristoy-Oxocelhaya 1956 excavation. 30th European Association of Archaeologists Annual Meeting, Aug 2024, Roma, Italy. hal-04869042

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# Are 70 years too late? A FAIR articulation of legacy data, online visualisation tools, and repositories: the HARISTOY-OXOCELHAYA 1956 excavation

Sébastien Plutniak ID

National Center for Scientific Research – CITERES Lab., Tours, France

sebastien.plutniak@cnrs.fr

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* The HARISTOY (or OXOCELHAYA) cave is part of the famous Isturitz-Oxocelhaya cave complex in Saint-Martin-d'Arberoue, France. Discovered in 1929, it was excavated in 1955-1956 by Georges Laplace, José Miguel de Barandiáran & Pierre Boucher.

* Layers attributed to the Bronze Age and Mousterian and a rich faunal assemblage with numerous cave bear remains were identified.

* Rock art was discovered by Laplace in 1956 and attributed to the Magdalenian.

* However, few publications report about the excavation although it featured advanced field recording methods.

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HARISTOY

Toulouse

## Innovative recording method

* In 1954, Laplace and Louis Méroc published a method to record excavation archaeological observations with a coordinate system.

* The 1955-56 HARISTOY excavation is a little-known case of the early use of this method.

* The collection and excavation documentation are conserved at the Musée national de Préhistoire in Les Eyzies, France.

* The contents of the field notebooks were manually transcribed.

From Laplace & Méroc 1954.

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From the 1955 excavation report, MNP.

## Dataset open publication

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doi: 10.5281/zenodo.127383281

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* It results in a CSV file describing 1769 objects with transcribed + additional variables to enrich the dataset.

* The file is published on the Zenodo permanent & non-profit repository.

## Web visualisation with archeoViz

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**Citation:** archeoViz platform maintainers, Sébastien Plutniak. 2024. Online data visualisation of: Haristoy (Paleolithic-Neolithic) using the archeoViz web application, https://analytics.huma-num.fr/archeoviz/haristoy, <hal-04647280>, doi: 10670/1.6cqjk9

* **archeoViz** is a free and open-source application for **visual & statistical** explorations of archaeological spatial data and for **showcasing** on the web.

* The online “Haristoy” **archeoViz** instance connects to the **Zenodo** deposit and generates the **first visualisation** of this legacy data.

* The resulting digital object is a **publication** on its own (data edition), **citable** and **referenced** on multiple academic documentation systems.

* Designed for simplicity, **archeoViz** also includes **advanced & experimental** features: here, the function to visualize uncertainty in object location is twisted to represent stone blocs as volumes.

## Referencing in the archeoViz Portal

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* The **archeoViz Portal** is an interactive catalogue of **archeoViz** instances, ensuring the use of consistent & standardized metadata:

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* and referencing in:

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Visit the portal

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66 datasets

~ 468,000 objects

~ 12,000 refitting relations

~ 7,200 sites

~ 32,000 dates

de Beaufort, Jullien. 1968. "Les Ours de la grotte d'Haristoy-Isturitz", doi: 10.1515/mamm.1968.32.2.225

Clot, Duranthon. 1990. *Les mammifères fossiles du Quaternaire dans les Pyrénées. Toulouse.*

Laplace, Méroc. 1954. "Application des coordonnées cartésiennes à la fouille d'un gisement", doi: 10.3406/bspf.1954.12427

Laplace. 1960. "Les grottes d'Oxocelhaya, à Saint-Martin d'Arberoue (prés d'Hasparren)".

Plutniak. 2021. "Abstraction in Archaeological Stratigraphy: a Pyrenean Lineage of Innovation", doi: 10.31235/osf.io/2pgak