5th regular meeting

7 ppl attended

Organisational issues

Twitter account update
- According to the plans made during the last meeting, the twitter team followed a more strategic approach this month
- This increased both activity and interaction with followers
- The plan for the next months can be summarised as: More engagement and less promotion to act less as entertainers and more like moderators (for meaningful user-user interaction)
- This will also include cooperation with https://twitter.com/Rchaeology1, who is working on a twitter list of archaeologists using R
Update of the homepage
- Joe did further work on the homepage frontend
- The changes could be merged into the master branch immediately
- Some details could be cleaned out in a group effort after this merge
- State of the discussion: https://github.com/sslarch/sslarch.github.io/issues/9
Mailinglist
- Joining the google mailinglist required confirmation by administrators until now
- We decided to abolish this to further lower the threshold of joining the group
Meeting announcements
- To make the meetings more visible, they should be announced in the future not only on the mailinglist, but also on slack and twitter

CAA2021
- Both our session and our workshop only have 5 submissions right now, but we know of multiple more submissions to be handed in before the deadline (12th March 2021, 23:59 GMT)
- The group should again invite to both sessions on all available channels
- Providing the workshop behind the registration “paywall” of CAA2021 is not ideal, and we would like to share the material in an open context in the future

Ordination and chronology
- Martin Hinz would like to establish a small working group to discuss method development in that domain
- Resources: (as spontaneously suggested by the group)
  - SPARTAAS R package: Statistical pattern recognition and dating using archaeological artefacts assemblages
  - Brunner et al. (2020) Central European Early Bronze Age chronology revisited: A Bayesian examination of large-scale radiocarbon dating. PLOS ONE 15(12): e0243719. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0243719
  - Ortman, Scott 2016. Uniform Probability Density Analysis and Population History in the Northern Rio Grande. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 23:95–12
  - Ortman et al. 2007 EMPIRICAL BAYESIAN METHODS FOR ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY DATA: AN APPLICATION FROM THE MESA VERDE REGION. American Antiquity, 72(2), 2007, pp. 241-272
  - Krauß et al. 2017. “Chronology and Development of the Chalcolithic Necropolis of Varna I”. Documenta Praehistorica 44 (December), 282-305. https://doi.org/10.4312/dp.44.17.
A new paper about software review in archaeology was pre-published recently
- Review of archaeological software: Recommendations for the review of archaeological research software
- https://www.dguf.de/fileadmin/AI/archinf-ev_homburg-etal_english.pdf

The executive committee invited the “Little minions” (http://littleminions.link) group to join the next meeting and present their goals and vision