A few new papers from 2025

publication
data work
archaeological fieldwork
science studies
Author

Zack Batist

Published

December 10, 2025

Two additional papers deriving from my dissertation have been successfully peer reviewed and/or published during 2025. These complement On the Value of Informal Communication in Archaeological Data Work, which was published by Open Archaeology last year [DOI: 10.1515/opar-2024-0014].

Locating Creative Agency in Archaeological Data Work
DOI: 10.17613/8eqy4-n1m82 / Preprint / GitHub

Through comparison of illustration, photography, photogrammetry practices, and different approaches for collecting and managing spatial data, I identified the roles that fieldworkers and other actors play while constituting data. I submitted this paper for open review through Peer Community in Archaeology, which was a great experience! You can read the reviews at the PCI-archaeo website.

Balancing situated and objective representations in archaeological fieldwork
DOI: 10.1017/aap.2025.10101 / Preprint / GitHub

This paper has just been published in Advances in Archaeological Practice. It articulates tensions between systemic warrants to formalize archaeological observations and the embodied experiences of actually collecting data during fieldwork. I also include the peer-reviews in the git repository.

Data Management is People Management: On Abstraction of Data and Labor in Archaeological Projects
DOI: TBD / Preprint / GitHub

I recently presented another outcome from my dissertation at the Data and Technology Politics in Archaeology Workshop at the Norwegian Institute at Athens last week. A revised version of this will be published in the workshop proceedings sometime next year.