I'd love to hear more too. It's funny, both archaeology and history are indeed highly anecdotal in many ways, but both disciplines have become well established

I'd love to hear more too. It's funny, both archaeology and history are indeed highly anecdotal in many ways, but both disciplines have become well established enough by now that the anecdotes have started to become quite numerous. I.e., we probably have at least 300 to 400 scholarly monographs written about individual towns in the medieval and early modern era, and if we could scrape the data about, say, farming yields or criminal trials or what have you from all of those studies, suddenly we'd be dealing with thousands or tens of thousands of data points.