My SO is an archaeologist and I work in ML, so naturally we've discussed how the two could be combined. This is one of the applications we've discussed as well

My SO is an archaeologist and I work in ML, so naturally we've discussed how the two could be combined. This is one of the applications we've discussed as well as sorting/categorizing bags of bones and bone fragments into animal types (zooarchaeology is her specialty so this is a common task). As the article seems to indicate, the main hurdle for these tasks is data collection and annotation, especially since even experts often disagree on the classifications. There have been a number of times where my SO had to discard the data she was using after getting access to the materials they were gathered from and realizing that the researcher categorizing the animal bones had no idea what they were doing.