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…

Everything is a Deposit: An interview with pioneering geoarchaeologist Julie K. Stein
Nathan Mitchell, Alexandra DiCiro, Ben Marwick
Julie Stein's professional work was vital to the emergence and development of geoarchaeology as both a discipline and specialized community of practice among…

Tool-driven Revolutions in Archaeological Science
Sophie C. Schmidt, Ben Marwick
There is an argument in philosophy of science that revolutions in science are either ideas-driven or tool-driven. We explore this debate in light of recent…

How did the introduction of Stemmed Points affect Mobility and Site Occupation during the Late Pleistocene in Korea?
Gayoung Park, Ben Marwick
We use models from human behavioral ecology to examine stone artifacts from 23 sites in Korea to investigate mobility and site occupation patterns during the…

Cultural Transmission and the Social Contexts of Technological Transitions during the Late Paleolithic of Korea
Gayoung Park, Ben Marwick
The onset of the Late Paleolithic period in Korea, represented by the appearance of stemmed points and blades, was a key event in the dispersal of modern…

A Bayesian networks approach to infer social changes in burials in northeastern Taiwan during the European colonization period
Li-Ying Wang, Ben Marwick
Burials provide valuable information to study social structures based on the assumption that burials and associated grave goods can represent social roles and…

Variation in use of East Asian Late Paleolithic weapons: A study of tip cross-sectional area of stemmed points from Korea
Gayoung Park, Ben Marwick
The transition from the Early to Late Paleolithic in Korea is characterized by the introduction of blade technology, stemmed points, end scrapers, burins,…

Standardization of ceramic shape: A case study from the Iron Age pottery from northeastern Taiwan
Li-Ying Wang, Ben Marwick
The emergence of ceramic specialization in prehistoric societies is often linked to shifts in the complexity of social structures, because standardized ceramic…

Trade ornaments as indicators of social changes resulting from indirect effects of colonialism in northeastern Taiwan
Li-Ying Wang, Ben Marwick
Long-lasting indirect impacts on Indigenous peoples in the periphery of colonial control are poorly understood, especially in East Asia. Trade ornaments from…

How to align disciplinary ideals with actual practices: Transparency and openness in archaeological science
Li-Ying Wang, Ben Marwick
Archaeology is a highly diverse community of researchers without universally adopted methods,concepts, or theoretical perspectives. One ideal that unites us is…

Over research and ethics dumping in international archaeology
Pham Thanh Son (VKCH), May Su Ko, Ben Marwick
Among public health researchers two ethical concerns have recently stimulated discussion: “over-research” and “ethics dumping”. Over-research refers…

Views on the Nine Principles of Archaeological Ethics from the 2020 SAA Ethics Survey
Eloise Potter, Li-Ying Wang, Kaylee Pruski, Ben Marwick, Raelee Hampton
In the spring of 2018, the Society for American Archaeology (SAA) initiated the process of updating and revising the SAA Principles of Archaeological Ethics…

How do archaeologists write about racism? Computational text analysis of 41 years of Society of American Archaeology Annual Meeting Abstracts
Li-Ying Wang, Gayoung Park, Ben Marwick
Many communities and organisations responded to the murder of George Floyd in May 2020 with discussions to address systematic and institutionalized racism. We…

Tektite geoarchaeology in mainland Southeast Asia
Rachel Brewer, Li-Ying Wang, Pham Thanh Son (VKCH), Ben Marwick
Tektites formed by an extraterrestrial impact event in Southeast Asia at 0.78 Ma have been found in geological contexts and archaeological sites throughout…

Assessing Reproducibility (In The Practice of Reproducible Research Case Studies and Lessons from the Data-Intensive Sciences Justin Kitzes, Daniel Turek, Fatma Deniz (Eds.))
Ariel Rokem, Ben Marwick, Valentina Staneva
While understanding the full complement of factors that contribute to reproducibility is important, it can also be hard to break down these factors into steps…

How to use replication assignments for teaching integrity in empirical archaeology
Li-Ying Wang, Ryan Patrick Robinson, Hope Loiselle, Ben Marwick
The value of new archaeological knowledge is strongly determined by how credible it is, and a key measure of scientific credibility is how replicable new…

Robert C. Dunnell's "Systematics in Prehistory" at 50
Felix Riede, Astolfo Araujo, Ben Marwick
Systematics in Prehistory. At the height of the debate between Culture History and New Archaeology, Dunnell's work sought to address a more fundamental issue…

Bayesian inference of material culture phylogenies using continuous traits: A birth–death model for Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age arrowheads from Northwestern Europe
Felix Riede, David N. Matzig, Ben Marwick
The twentieth century saw two modes of thinking spread through biological systematics: population thinking and tree thinking. Many archaeologists…

A macroevolutionary analysis of European Late Upper Palaeolithic stone tool shape using a Bayesian phylodynamic framework
Felix Riede, Rachel Warnock, David N. Matzig, Ben Marwick
Phylogenetic models are commonly used in paleobiology to study the patterns and processes of organismal evolution. In the human sciences, phylogenetic methods…

Ten Simple Rules for Writing Dockerfiles for Reproducible Data Science
Vanessa Sochat, Benjamin Evans, Daniel Nüst, Tony Hirst, Stephen Eglen, Tim Head, Ben Marwick
Computational science has been greatly improved by the use of containers for packaging software and data dependencies. In a scholarly context, the main drivers…

Open Science in Archaeology
Julien Riel-Salvatore, Isaac Ullah, Thomas S. Dye, Domenico Giusti, Lynsey Bates, Kyle Bocinsky, Lee Drake, Alison Kyra Carter, Iza Romanowska, C Michael Barton, Fraser D. Neiman, Mark E Madsen, Enrico R. Crema, Rachel Opitz, Stefano Costa, John Hawks, Shawn Graham, Benjamin Davies, Philip Riris, Colin D. Wren, Cyler Conrad, Ben Marwick, Damien Huffer, Elizabeth Bollwerk
In archaeology, we are accustomed to investing great effort into collecting data from fieldwork, museum collections, and other sources, followed by detailed…

NSF 19-501 AccelNet Proposal: Community of Open Scholarship Grassroots Networks (COSGN)
Matthew Difranco, Tom Pollard, Samuel Guay, Allison Enright, Philip N. Cohen, University of Maryland, Paul Schultze-Motel, Virginia Barbour, Etienne P. LeBel, Hu Chuan-Peng, Stylianos Serghiou, Sau-Chin Chen, Olavo Bohrer Amaral, Devin R. Berg, Alexa Tullett, Julia M. Rohrer, Guido Scherp, Obasegun Tekena Ayodele, Jefferson Pooley, Kelly Cobey, Hilary Hanahoe, Emmy Tsang, Neil Chue Hong, Lucas Helal, Arij Al Chawaf, Daan Rutten, Vicky Rampin, New York University, Vera Ellen Heininga, Frank Renkewitz, Toma Susi, Edward Miguel, University of California, Berkeley, Daniel J. Peppe, Brian Glanz, Hasina Badani, Jaykumar Menon, Johanna Havemann, Karthik Ram, Malte Elson, Miguel Alejandro Silan, Jan H. Höffler, Michela Bertero, Dermot Lynott, Steve Van Tuyl, Brian A. Nosek, University of Virginia, Center For Open Science, Benjamin Thomas, Mitja Back, Lilly Winfree, Najla Rettberg, Daniela Saderi, Peter Suber, Felix Schönbrodt, Hannah Fraser, Brian Hole, Erik Mueller, Adam Henry Sparks, Sridhar Gutam, Anup Kumar, Tina Krall, John P. Mills, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Guy Geltner, Thomas Mboa, Miroslav Sirota, Petr Knoth, Rebecca M. Willén, Rizqy Amelia Zein, Marie Gaarder, Sanjin Muftic, Oleksandr Berezko, Michael C. Frank, Michelle Barker, Alexandra Sarafoglou, Amy Orben, Kora Korcec, Gilad Feldman, Stephan Heunis, Eloy Rodrigues, Eirini Zormpa, Gustav Nilsonne, Kaisa Saurio, Pandelis Perakakis, Gultekin Gurdal, Alessandra S. Souza, Justin Sègbédji Ahinon, Katherine S. Corker, Amanda Montoya, Koen Vermeir, Yoshihiko Kunisato, David Thomas Mellor, Center For Open Science, Daniel Umpierre, Astrid Verheusen, Timothy H. Parker, Niklas Carl Zimmer, Mathew Ling, Bryan G. Cook, Daniel S. Katz, Christopher R. Chartier, Alice Allen, Laurent Gatto, Jürgen Schneider, Usha Munshi, Fielding L. Grasty, Center For Open Science, Anna van 't Veer, James Entwood, Dirk Ostwarld, Jamie Farquharson, Carole Goble, Shinichi Nakagawa, Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Jack Arnal, Jennifer L Beaudry, Eva Furrer, W. Robert Reed, Ben Marwick, Fiona Fidler, Nancy Pontika, Marcus Munafo, Ronald E Brooks III, Center For Open Science, Steve Haroz, Anita Eerland, Cooper Smout, Ginny Hendricks, Antonio Schettino, Universiteit Gent, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Birgit Schmidt, Khaled Moustafa, Tony Ross-Hellauer
The Community of Open Scholarship Grassroots Networks (COSGN), includes 120 grassroots networks, representing virtually every region of the world and every…