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Community-driven, free, open and transparent peer-review for #preprints in #Archaeology
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1/3 New recommendation: Antigoni Panagiotopoulou, Colin A. B. Wallace, Lemonia Ragia and Dorina Moullou (2025). Detection of temporal changes of the Omega House at the Athenian Agora. V2 peer-reviewed and recommended by PCI Archaeology doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 🧪🏺
Figure 2 from the manuscript: Map of the Omega House with selection fo the specific areas analyzed further in the manuscript.
November 14, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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1/3 New recommendation: Bonhomme, Bouby, Claude, Dham, @murielgrosb.bsky.social, Ivorra, Jeanty, Pagnoux, Pastor, Terral & Evin (2025) CNN and Outline Analyses for Archaeobotanical Studies of Domestication and Subspecific Identification. doi.org/10.1101/2023... @isemevol.bsky.social 🧪🏺🦣
Figure 1 from the manuscript: Schematic description of the GMM and CNN models used. For each taxon, an archetypical individual seed is presented.
October 23, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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1/3 New reco: Bédécarrats, Le Roy, Sayle, Blaizot, Couvrat, Gleize, @guillaume-leduc.bsky.social, Rottier & Goude (2025) Isobiography of the first farmers: effects of age-estimating referential and statistical models on reconstructing infant life. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 🧪🏺🦣
Figure 2 from the manuscript: principle of the alignment of isotope sampling to the dental maturation referential in order to calculate the age at formation of each section and create the isobiography. The example uses the data obtained for the M2 of the individual 8, the Moorrees referential and a GAM model.
October 22, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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1/4 New recommendation: @ehmalatesta.bsky.social et al. (2025) Rethinking Caribbean Archaeology: Towards an ethical position for a truly decolonial practice. ver.3 recommended by @pciarchaeology.bsky.social osf.io/4ge5j
Figure 2 from the recommended article: Topics generated in the OST session on 14th November 2023 and their assignment to six umbrella topics for further discussion by the workshop participants (Figure by Kathrin Nägele).
October 13, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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1/3 New recommendation: @feliciafricke.bsky.social & Laffoon J. E.‬ (2025) Osteological and Isotopic Analysis of Skeletal Remains at Fort Amsterdam, St. Eustatius, Dutch Caribbean. ver. 3 recommended by @pciarchaeology.bsky.social researchprofiles.ku.dk/en/publicati... 🧪🏺
Figure 1 from the manuscript: location of the Fort Amsterdam site on St. Eustatius, ine the Northern Lesser Antilles.
October 3, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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Looking for a place to submit your finished paper? We propose a totally free and transparent initiative! Made by archaeologists for archaeologists. Follow the steps below! 🏺🧪
September 27, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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1/3 New recommendation: Lien-Talks A. G. W. (2025). Heritage Data Governance in Regeneration: Lessons from England's High Street Heritage Action Zones. V3 peer-reviewed and recommended by PCI Archaeology doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
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Figure 1 from the manuscript: Map of the HSHAZ locations, with emphasis on the three case studies
September 23, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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1/3 New recommendation: Luo Hongpeng & He Jie (2025). An Exploratory Framework of Land-Sea Movement Model for Early Austronesians Migration. V3 peer-reviewed and recommended by PCI Archaeology doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 🧪🏺
Figure 6 from the manuscript: 4 maps showing the roundtrip paths in summer or winter from (a) Liangzhu to Andarayan, (b) Liangzhu to AnSon, (c) Fengpitou to ManBac, (d) Fengpitou to Andarayan.
September 22, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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1/3 New recommendation: Miranda A. Evans‬ (2025) The Demodifier: a tool for screening modification-induced alternate peptide taxonomy in palaeoproteomics. ver.4 recommended by @pciarchaeology.bsky.social doi.org/10.1101/2025... 🧪🏺🦣
September 15, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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PCI Archaeology was at @isba11.bsky.social in Turin last week! Stay tuned for new #openaccess biomolecular papers soon with full transparency in the editorial process!

Thank you @matthewcollins.bsky.social and Marta Arzarello for sharing our initiative!
@isbarchaeology.bsky.social 🧪🏺🦣
Picture of the roll-up presenteing PCI Archaeology during the congress, and of the ISBA11 tote bag.
September 1, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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1/3 New recommendation: Kawano, K., @itagakim.bsky.social, Fujita, H., Yamamoto, R., Takeuchi, T. & Ochiai, H. (2025). Statistical image processing (Decorrelation Stretch) and deep learning (CycleGANs) to restore images of faded artworks. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 🏺🧪
Figure 6 from the manuscript: Real and Fake Image of CycleGANs Structure.
August 20, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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1/3 New recommendation: Zachary Batist‬ (2025) Locating Creative Agency in Archaeological Data Work. ver.2 recommended by @pciarchaeology.bsky.social doi.org/10.17613/8eq... @zackbatist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy 🏺🧪🦣
Figure 5 from the manuscript: Two photographs of fieldwork with arrows pointing at details and text in boxes explaining the details of how spatial information is recorded in the field. First photograph depicts a system that measures distance in relation to trench entities. Second photograph depicts a geospatial specialist and a fieldworker determining an object’s position using a digital theodolite.
August 9, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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2/4 You can use fabryka online directly at marchaeologist.shinyapps.io/fabryka/ or you can have it on your computer by downloading the R project if you are on the field without internet access for example: github.com/marchaeologi...
Screenshot of the web application
August 4, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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1/4 New recommendation: Marc THOMAS‬ (2025) fabryka: A web application for easily analysing & exploring the fabric of archaeological assemblages. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 🏺🧪
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Logo of the web application fabryka Figure 1 from the manuscript: fabryka creation scheme and organisation of the article.
August 4, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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1/3 New recommendation: Igor P. Bajena (2025). OntPreHer3D: Ontology for Preservation of Cultural Heritage 3D Models. v2 peer-reviewed and recommended by PCI Archaeology doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 🏺🧪
Figure 2 from the manuscript: Diagram illustrating the class hierarchy in OntPreHer3D. Boxes in white colour represent classes from CRMbase (version 7.2.2), in pink from CRMinf (version 1.0), in green from CRMdig (version 3.2.1), in yellow from LRMoo (version 0.9.6) in blue from OntSciDoc3D (version 2.0) and in turquoise new classes from OntPreHer3D (version 1.0.1).
July 24, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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1/4 New recommendation: @ronaldvisser.bsky.social‬, K. Lambers, @aitchis1.bsky.social‬, A. Jutte, D. Rocks-Macqueen, L. vanderKnaap, I. Romanowska, T. Brughmans, J. Linssen, A. Pažout‬(2025) Lessons learned: creating tutorials to teach agent-based modelling to archaeologists. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
Figure 3.1 from the manuscript: Screenshot of lesson 3 in tutorial 1 showing the population dynamics of the Long House Valley in the Artificial Anasazi model created by Axtell et al. (2002). Figure 3.7 from the manuscript: Impression of various workshops (CAA 2023 in Amsterdam and EAA 2023 in Belfast) with participants working.
July 24, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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1/3 New recommendation: Cardillo, Marcelo & Carranza, Eugenia ‬ (2025) Applying statistical and causal modeling to interpret thermal alteration in observational lithic data. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 🧪🏺
Figure 2 from the manuscript. Top panel: effects of fire on the landscape observed in 2021 and 2022. Bottom panel: burned surface lithic scatters showing effects such as fractures and color changes. Figure 3 from the manuscript: Causal model for mechanical alterations of pebbles under the effect of fire. Red, direct and mediation effects (Fire -unmeasured-, Fissures, Rock_Type and Shape). Gray, latent unobserved variables (Biomass, Knapping and Trampling). Green, outcome variable (Mech_Alt).
July 22, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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Exciting news for archaeometallurgists! Historical Metallurgy is now a Category 1 PCI-Friendly journal!
When recommended by @pciarchaeology.bsky.social, your manuscript will be published as is if it fits the journal’s scope! 🧪🏺#Archaeology
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July 21, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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A new PCI-friendly journal in #Archaeology where you can submit your paper after our free and transparent evaluation! They will answer rapidly (<5 days) if they will accept it with minor modifications, with further peer review, or if they are not interested. 🏺
www.openscience.fr/Archeologie-...
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June 26, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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1/3 New recommendation: Catalán González, F. J. ‬ (2025) The application of graphic visualization filters for historical-archaeological studies. A case study: "Mesas del Esparragal", Alcalá De Los Gazules, Cádiz (Spain). doi.org/10.5281/zeno... #Archaeology 🧪🏺
Figure 6 & Figure 7 from the manuscript - Results of three-directional Hillshade (multidirectional Hillshade). Figure on the top right made by RVT software. Figure on the top left created with SAGA. The red box indicates the location of possible archaeological structures. Results of the Simple Local Model Relief filter. Figure on the bottom right made by RVT software. Figure on the bottom left made with SAGA software.
June 25, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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Exciting update across all @peercommunityin.bsky.social websites! Now, every review, editorial decision, and author response has its own DOI. This allows for citation of each step if necessary and helps in recognizing the contributions of everyone involved in our 🆓 and transparent evaluation process
June 12, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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1/3 New recommendation: A. Galland, I. Clemente-Conte, J.-R. Boisserie, A. Delagnes‬ (2025) How depositional environments impact the microwear preservation of quartz artifacts: insights from the Oldowan of the Shungura Formation (Ethiopia). doi.org/10.31233/osf... 🧪🏺
FIGURE 6 from the manuscript – Macro- and microphotographies of different classes of alteration on three different quartz artifacts, with description of the alteration levels at macroscopic and microscopic scales (macroscopic scale is 1 mm; microscopic scale is 100 µm; modified from Delagnes et al. 2023).
June 12, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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1/5 New recommendation: Dekker et al. & @zandraselina.bsky.social‬ (2025) Open science, communication, and collaboration for the future of palaeoproteomics. V4 recommended by @PCI_Archaeology doi.org/10.5281/zeno.... #Archaeology #opendata #openscience @paastacommunity.bsky.social‬ #Palaeoproteomics
Figure 2 of the manuscript. Data availability in palaeoproteomics. A) Percentage of ZooMS and shotgun palaeoproteomics studies with available datasets. Preprints and papers that did not produce any data were excluded from this calculation. B) Number of palaeoproteomics datasets in online repositories (since 2010). ´Other´ repositories include Dryad, Figshare, Github, Mendeley Data, and the OSF Framework. The dataset was compiled by manually going through the list of publications compiled for Figure 1 and checking raw data availability. This figure was made in R v.4.4.2. with R Studio v.2024.12.0+ (R Core Team, 2023) using ggplot2 (Wickham, 2016).
June 7, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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@coalitions-oa.bsky.social has worked a lot towards #openaccess and is now aiming at less gold OA and hybrid OA, and more Diamond OA and Publish-Review-Curate models, open data, open peer-review...
FULLY OK WITH THIS DIRECTION !!!
May 24, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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1/3 New recommendation: J. Looten, B. Gravina, X. Muth, M. Villaeys, J.G. Bordes (2025) Towards a more robust representation of lithic industries in archaeology: a critical review of traditional approaches and modern techniques. v4 recommended by @PCI_Archaeology doi.org/10.5281/zeno.... 🏺🧪
Figure 9 of the preprint - Different RTI visualization modes and comparison with standard photography. Experimental handaxe - captured using a Canon 6D Mark II DSLR with a Canon 50mm f/1.8 lens - settings: f/14, 1/10 sec, ISO 100.
May 14, 2025 at 8:31 PM