Citizen Science in Archaeology

• DOI: 10.7183/0002-7316.79.4.749749
• Publication Date: 2014-10-21T22:29:22Z
• Authors: Monica L. Smith
• Keywords: Citizen Science; Crowdsourcing; Upload; Stewardship; Identification

Abstract Citizen science, as a process of volunteer participation through crowdsourcing, facilitates the creation mass data sets needed to address subtle and large-scale patterns in complex phenomena. science efforts other field disciplines such biology, geography, astronomy indicate how new web-based interfaces can enhance expand upon archaeologists’ existing platforms engagement schools, community archaeology, site stewardship, professional–avocational partnerships. Archaeological research benefit from citizen paradigm four ways: fieldwork that makes use widely available technologies mobile applications for photography upload; searches large satellite image collections identification monitoring; crowdfunding; crowdsourced computer entry heritage data.