Ben Marwick

The Rockerverse: Packages and Applications for Containerization with R
Daniel NÜst, Dirk Eddelbuettel, Dom Bennett, Robrecht Cannoodt, Dav Clark, Gergely Daroczi, Mark Edmondson, Colin Fay, Ellis Hughes, Lars Kjeldgaard, Sean Lopp, Ben Marwick, Heather Nolis, Jacqueline Nolis, Hong Ooi, Karthik Ram, Noam Ross, Lori Shepherd, Péter Sólymos, Tyson Lee Swetnam, Nitesh Turaga, Charlotte Van Petegem, Jason Williams, Craig Willis, Nan Xiao
The Rocker Project provides widely used Docker images for R across different application scenarios. This article surveys downstream projects that build upon…

Truth, Proof, and Reproducibility: There's no counter-attack for the codeless
Charles T. Gray, Ben Marwick
Current concerns about reproducibility in many research communities can be traced back to a high value placed on empirical reproducibility of the physical…

Galisonian logic devices and data availability: revitalising Upper Palaeolithic cultural taxonomies
Ben Marwick
Reynolds and Riede's (2019) call for caution in the use of cultural taxonomies in the study of stone artefact assemblages is welcome. In my contribution to…

How to Read a Research Compendium
Daniel NÜst, Carl Boettiger, Ben Marwick
Researchers spend a great deal of time reading research papers. Keshav (2012) provides a three-pass method to researchers to improve their reading skills. This…

Open access to publications to expand participation in archaeology
Ben Marwick
The Norwegian Archaeological Review has published several exciting articles recently that advance our understanding of openness in archaeological theory and…

History and Practice of Archaeology in Laos
Ben Marwick
As the smallest and only landlocked country of Southeast Asia, the history and practice of archaeology in the Lao People's Democratic Republic (hereafter Laos)…

Computational reproducibility in archaeological research: Basic principles and a case study of their implementation
Ben Marwick
The use of computers and complex software is pervasive in archaeology, yet their role in the analytical pipeline is rarely exposed for other researchers to…

Book Review: "Uncertainty and sensitivity analysis in archaeological computational modeling" edited by Marieka Briuwer Burg, Hans Peeters, William A. Lovis
Ben Marwick
This volume is collection of papers emerging from a forum at the 2014 SAA meetings. The papers are motivated by the question of how we can measure and…

The Hoabinhian of Southeast Asia and its Relationship to Regional Pleistocene Lithic Technologies
Ben Marwick
The Hoabinhian is a distinctive Pleistocene stone artefact technology of mainland and island Southeast Asia. Its relationships to key patterns of technological…

Movement of lithics by trampling: An experiment in the Madjedbebe sediments
Ben Marwick
Understanding post-depositional movement of artefacts is vital to making reliable claims about the formation of archaeological deposits. Human trampling has…

Landform boundary effects on Holocene forager landscape use in arid South Australia
Ben Marwick
Landscapes throughout any region vary in the resources they contain. We investigate how Holocene forager populations adapted to this variation in the linear…

Computational Reproducibility in Archaeological Research: Basic Principles and a Case Study of Their Implementation
Ben Marwick
The use of computers and complex software is pervasive in archaeology, yet their role in the analytical pipeline is rarely exposed for other researchers to…

Adaptations to sea level change and transitions to agriculture at Khao Toh Chong rockshelter, Peninsular Thailand
Ben Marwick
Published in: Marwick, B., Van Vlack, H.G., Conrad, C., Shoocongdej, R., Thongcharoenchaikit, C., Kwak, S. 2016 Adaptations to sea level change and…

Early Modern Human Lithic Technology from Jerimalai, East Timor
Ben Marwick
Jerimalai is a rock shelter in East Timor with cultural remains dated to 42,000 years ago, making it one of the oldest known sites of modern human activity in…

World Heritage Sites on Wikipedia: Cultural Heritage Activism in a Context of Constrained Agency
Prema Smith, Ben Marwick
UNESCO World Heritage sites are places of outstanding significance, and often key sources of information that influence how people interact with the past today…

A Standard for the Scholarly Citation of Archaeological Data as an Incentive to Data Sharing
Suzanne E Pilaar Birch, Ben Marwick
How do archaeologists share their research data, if at all? We review what data are, according to current influential definitions, and previous work on the…