Automation and Novelty –Archaeocomputational Typo-Praxis in the Wake of the Third Science Revolution
Shumon T. Hussain, Sébastien Plutniak, Felix Riede · Peer Community In Archaeology · 2023
The section labelled 'Conclusions' would benefit from a re-titling -it is really a very thoughtful discission on machines in archaeology more broadly.It makes a series of excellent points about how approaches to machine learning and the labels we apply to it uphold an unhelpful nature/culture dualism.This is a great point and not one that I have seen made elsewhere.Breaking this part of the paper into its own section would help drive this home and make the paper more readable.I suggest shifting the sub-heading 'conclusion' to sit before the final three paragraphs and re-naming the current 'conclusions' section with a different sub-heading. This I have done -I re-titled the first part 'Implications' and inserted a new sub-title before the last 3 paragraphs 'Concluding Remarks'. I have also tried to tie the text better back to the preceding discussion.Minor points.•The author might consider offering a brief explanation of what they mean by emic and etic categories on page 2 to help readers unfamiliar with these terms. Ontology is important but I think it is better to foreground another concept so I retitled the piece by adding 'typology' -Archaeology, Typology and Machine EpistemologyAbstract: The abstract is informative, but as above, it is not entirely representative of the work.At the very least, one would expect to see some mention of automation and novelty.In the current version, it reads too generic with wide-spanning questions. Indeed -the abstract was written before I really knew what