Wikipedia:GLAM/OU/Division of Humanities/Archaeology

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Dissertations

Useful work that could be done at Otago includes uploading the metadata for archaeology theses and dissertations, currently held in the department, to Wikidata to increase accessibility. We could also look at digitising these through the university library. Uploading metadata for dissertations means we then have a dataset to work on that we can improve, e.g. by connecting thesis records to the subjects (places, people, cultures, time periods etc) they cover, as well as items for students and supervisors.

Where dissertations or theses were held by the central university library, and the item was added to the thesis repository, then the data may already have been added to Wikidata as part of the NZ Thesis Project, or may be included in the next update, due to happen this year. There are 69 University of Otago archaeology theses already in Wikidata.

Publications

Another fruitful area of improvement is publications - getting publications into Wikidata, connecting them to authors and main subjects, and then seeing if there are appropriate pages to cite them on in Wikipedia.

The table below shows the most recent publications from the department, as per the noticeboard display. They have all been added to Wikidata and can now be connected to their authors and more easily cited on Wikidata. It might also be useful to check which papers are available full text in OUR Archive and add the Handle identifier.

Paper	Connected to authors on Wikidata?	Has main subjects
Polynesian quarrying at the bottom of the world – Raw material procurement and adze production in Bluff Harbour, South Island, New Zealand (Q138828691)	yes
Fossils, fish and tropical forests: prehistoric human adaptations on the island frontiers of Oceania (Q125879769)	half lots to go
Interaction and Isolation in New Georgia: insights from the Nabo Point ceramic assemblage, Tetepare (Q135872877)	1 left to go
Archaeological science meets Māori knowledge to model pre-Columbian sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) dispersal to Polynesia’s southernmost habitable margins (Q135219174)	yes
Investigating the nature of mobility patterns and interaction: Ceramic production at the Late Lapita site of Amalut, Papua New Guinea (Q112210094)	1 left to go	archaeology, Papua New Guinea
Fit for purpose: investigating adaptations in late Pleistocene lithic technology to an island environment at Buang Merabak, New Ireland, Papua New Guinea (Q127329089)	1 left to go	Pleistocene, prehistoric archaeology
Promoting cultural heritage for sustainable tourism development: Madang, Papua New Guinea (Q138828707)	yes
Moving on or settling down? Studying the nature of mobility through Lapita pottery from the Anir Islands, Papua New Guinea. In From Field to Museum—Studies from Melanesia in Honour of Robin Torrence, ed. Jim Specht, Val Attenbrow, and Jim Allen (Q135872878)	1 left to go
Functional studies of flaked and ground stone artefacts reveal starchy tree nut and root exploitation in mid-Holocene highland New Guinea (Q138828749)	9 left to go
Small game hunting in montane rainforests: Specialised capture and broad spectrum foraging in the Late Pleistocene to Holocene New Guinea Highlands (Q135837018)	2 left to go
An archaeological review of Polynesian adze quarries and sources (Q138828773)	2 left to go
Tropical Foodways and Exchange along the Coastal Margin of Northeastern New Guinea (Q112269434)	3 left to go
Discovery of Talasea obsidian in a post-Lapita deposit in Arnavon Islands, Solomon Islands (Q138828784)	3 left to go
Lapita on Wari Island: What's the Problem? (Q138828786)	4 left to go
Gone Batty: A Newly Adapted Morphological Methodology for Bat Cranial Remains Within an Archaeological Setting (Q138828796)	2 left to go
The problem of wild plants: Archaeobotany in Aotearoa New Zealand (Q138828811)	1 left to go
Exploring the potential of dental calculus to shed light on past human migrations in Oceania (Q135869993)	8 left to go
Overcoming Shifting Baselines: Paleo‐Behaviour Reveals Industrial Revolution as Tipping Point (Q136784838)	5 left to go
The impact of human dispersals and local interactions on the genetic diversity of coastal Papua New Guinea over the past 2,500 years (Q135394532)	7 left to go

Images

It would be great to upload some images of archaeologists, especially in the field, and also photographs of archaeological sites. Images for Wikipedia are uploaded with Creative Commons licenses to Wikimedia Commons.

New pages

A page for Glenn Summerhayes has been created.