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Computational archeology sounds great, what do you do? Is there more demand?

• exdsq 5y ago
  It’s pretty fun! The field goes from ML image analysis on artifacts, such as trying to identify artists in pottery, through to satellite image analysis, LIDAR scanning, ancient DNA analysis. My friend does underwater archaeology in Japan and spends his time scuba diving and writing code to analyze the images he gets. I was keen on the field because it lets you get out the office for a few months a year for fieldwork. However I’m new to this so there’s a lot more for me to learn still! Starting an archaeology undergrad (distance learning) while working with a few research groups helping them with code in exchange for archaeology experience atm. The best bit is some of the groups use languages like Haskell so the work itself, from a purely programming perspective, is interesting too!