Share trainings to improve the skills in digital archaeology
Channel: Recording Archaeology
Date: 07/10/2020

There are more and more cursus in digital archaeology (for all or part of teaching) but there are not really more students and especially not more opportunities for them. At the same time we need young researchers with strong skills in digital data processing in archaeology, in other words,  what  we  call  at  the  University  of  Tours  archaeomatic  and  what  Marcos  Llobera  calls  Archaeological Information Science. People with Post-master and PhD degrees are expected to work both in laboratory and in the field, particularly in preventive archaeology. Indeed, one of the teaching challenges is to transfer theory, methodology and tools developed in research laboratories to daily practice of archaeology. To get closer to that aim, we would like to discuss the possibility of collaboration between our different training groups. We need to imagine how to implement all the possibilities of exchange between cursus in digital archaeology and student mobility between our courses, in order to build a european or more international cursus. The final aim is to improve the robustness of trainings and therefore the skills of students.


Xavier Rodier, Elisabeth Lorans