Publications

Journal Articles

Zachary Batist
In press. Does not compute! Accounting for social and situated experiences while integrating and analyzing obsidian sourcing data. Archeologia e Calcolatori (special issue comprising papers presented at ArcheoFOSS XVII) 35(2): 47-54.
DOI: 10.19282/ac.35.2.2024.06 | BibTeX

Zachary Batist
2024. On the value of informal communication in archaeological data work. Open Archaeology 10(1): 20240014.
DOI: 10.1515/opar-2024-0014 | BibTeX

Zachary Batist and Joe Roe
2024. Open archaeology, open source? Collaborative practices in an emerging community of archaeological software engineers. Internet Archaeology 67.
DOI: 10.11141/ia.67.13 | Quarto Compendium | Postprint | BibTeX

Zachary Batist and Joe Roe
2023. open-archaeo: a resource for documenting archaeological software development practices. Journal of Open Archaeology Data 11(9): 1-7.
DOI: 10.5334/joad.111 | BibTeX

Zachary Batist, Val Masters, Tiffany C. Torma, Michael Carter, Neal Ferris, Isto Huvila, Seamus Ross and Costis Dallas
2021. Figurations of Digital Archaeological Practice in Two Mediterranean Fieldwork Projects. Open Archaeology (Special Issue on Archaeological Practice on Shifting Grounds) 7(1): 1731-1755.
DOI: 10.1515/opar-2020-0217 | BibTeX

Daniel Contreras, Zachary Batist, Ciara Zogheib and Tristan Carter
2021. Matching Pragmatic Lithic Analysis and Proper Data Architecture: The QuARI R Shiny Database Interface. Advances in Archaeological Practice 9(4): 299-311.
DOI: 10.1017/aap.2021.11 | GitHub | BibTeX

Tristan Carter, Zachary Batist, Kathryn Campeau, Yosef Garfinkel and Katharina Streit
2017. Investigating Pottery Neolithic Socio-Economic “Regression” in the Southern Levant: Characterising Obsidian Consumption at Sha’ar Hagolan (N. Israel). Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 15: 305-317.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2017.08.016 | BibTeX

Kyle P. Freund and Zachary Batist
2014. Sardinian Obsidian Circulation and Early Maritime Navigation in the Neolithic as Shown through Social Network Analysis. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology 9(3): 364-380.
DOI: 10.1080/15564894.2014.881937 | BibTeX

Martin Loignon, Weimin Miao, Lianggao Hu, Andrew Bier, Tarek A. Bismar, P. James Scrivens, Koren Mann, Mark Basik, Amélie Bouchard, Pierre O. Fiset, Zachary Batist and Gerald Batist
2009. Frequent Nrf2 depletion due to Cul3 overexpression in breast cancer is associated with sensitivity to carcinogens, oxidative stress and chemotherapy. Molecular Cancer Therapeutics 8(8): 2432-2440.
DOI: 10.1158/1535-7163.MCT-08-1186 | BibTeX

Book Contributions

Zachary Batist
2018. Using Raspberry Pi in the Field. In the Open Digital Archaeology Textbook Environment (ODATE), Ed. Shawn Graham. eCampus Ontario.
Book Section | Book | BibTeX

Datasets

open-archaeo
A list of open source archaeological software and resources.
Zenodo | GitHub | Website

The Database of Obsidian Sourcing Studies (DObsiSS)
A listing of chemically characterized archaeological obsidian, compiled from published journal articles, excavation reports, conference papers and other scholarly records.
Zenodo | GitHub | Website

Software

Queryable Artefact Record Interface (QuARI)
A database interface designed to facilitate the irregular, iterative, and non-linear workflows that are commonly employed in lithic analysis.
GitHub | Publication

Theses

Zachary Batist
2023. Archaeological data work as continuous and collaborative practice.
Doctoral Dissertation. Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto.
Supervised by Costis Dallas. handle.net/1807/130306 | BibTeX

Zachary Batist
2015. Obsidian Circulation Networks in Southwest Asia and Anatolia (12,000 - 5700 B.P.): A Comparative Approach.
Master’s Thesis. Department of Anthropology at McMaster University.
Supervised by Tristan Carter. handle.net/11375/16528 | BibTeX

Zachary Batist
2012. Feasting In Bronze Age Greece: A Network Analysis Approach
Bachelor’s Thesis. Directed Interdisciplinary Studies at Carleton University.
Supervised by Shawn Graham.

Works in Progress

Zachary Batist
In review. Locating creative agency in archaeological data work. Cambridge Archaeological Journal.

Zachary Batist
In review. Balancing situated and objective representations in archaeological fieldwork. Advances in Archaeological Practice.