calgacus.srht.site
Work in progress. Each project below publishes its code, its
data, and the reasoning that got from one to the other.
- uššira piṭāti
— “send the archers!”
- A network analysis of the Amarna letters, done carefully: the famous small
world is real but 1.6×, not 49×, and Rib-Hadda’s brokerage is
an artifact of the dossier.
- iddin annakam
— “he delivered the tin”
- A Bayesian mixture-model and identifiability reanalysis of the Uluburun tin
cargo, and of the Late Bronze Age tin-provenance dispute around it.
- wariq
— وَرِق, the silver of the Seven Sleepers
- An open-data reconstruction of the tenth-century silver crisis from
Viking-age Baltic hoard catalogues, published as linked data.
- tegiszhol
— which of these could anyone check?
- Steppe archaeology’s grey literature turned into open data: radiocarbon
determinations and ancient-genome burial contexts read out of Russian- and
Kazakh-language site reports, reconciled against the public aggregators, and
measured for accuracy by blind transcription rather than by asking a reviewer
whether the machine got it right.
- radio-rian
— dátú, dating; rian, a trace
- A cleaned, controlled-vocabulary, IntCal20-recalibrated corpus of Irish
radiocarbon determinations, built on Chapple’s catalogue and extended
past it.
- bologna-wx
— Βροντοσκόπος, the thunder-watcher
- Written weather forecasts for Bologna, generated daily and weekly, with
every number in the prose fact-checked against the underlying data.