SIG Chrono

Meeting 1

Mon, 27 Oct 2025 10:00:00 +0100

SIG Chrono - 1st meeting

27 October 2025 at 10am CET time (Paris), total duration: 1h15-1h30, on ZOOM (link - ⬇️.ics)

Conference CAA 2023

Mon, 03 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000

https://2023.caaconference.org/, 2023-04-03/2023-04-06, Amsterdam

S12: Chronological modelling: formal methods and research software

Eythan Levy, Thomas Huet, Florian Thiery, Allard W. Mees

Meeting 2

Mon, 15 Dec 2025 10:00:00 +0100

SIG Chrono - 2nd meeting

15 December 2025 at 10am CET time (Paris), total duration: 1h15-1h30, on Google Meet (link)

Conference CAA 2025

Mon, 05 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

https://2025.caaconference.org/, 2025-05-05/2023-05-09, Athens

S1: Chronological modelling II: formal methods and research software

Eythan Levy, Thomas Huet

Time and its analysis are at the heart of archaeology: one of the main objectives of the archaeologist is the establishment of a temporal framework for a given layer, site or material culture. But archaeology covers such a wide range of cultures, dispersed both in time and space, that contextual chronological assessments are constructed using very different tools, languages and techniques. It creates as many different temporal and cultural frameworks as there are specialties, with notable differences in approaches depending on whether one is dealing with absolute or relative chronology, laboratory techniques or cultural approaches, deterministic or statistical methods (Buck and Millard 2004).

Conference CAA 2026

Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

https://2026.caaconference.org/

S35: Chronological Modelling III: a Round Table on Time in Computational Archaeology

Thomas Huet, Eythan Levy

This round table aims at discussing the current challenges and future perspectives on the modelling of time in archaeology.

When	Where
Thursday, April 2, 14:00-16:30	room Hörsaal 05

Some 30 years ago, the introduction of GIS into the archaeological toolbox sparked a ‘spatial turn’ in the discipline, greatly improving the interoperability of spatial data. However, no such integrated tool exists for managing temporal data. Chronological methods are highly diverse (e.g., seriation, stratigraphy, cross-dating, absolute dating), each typically handled by different software applications and libraries. The lack of interoperability between software outputs, formats and standards hinders the ability to understand cultural developments across different societies. In our view, the time has come to make chronological data more interoperable through the use of standardised formats (e.g., EDTF), relative temporal relationships (e.g., before/after), and specialised software (e.g., OxCal). Such an approach could pave the way for a Temporal Information System (TIS), enabling the calculation of a temporal metric for the rate of human cultural evolution (see our position paper: Huet & Levy, 2025). We invite all interested colleagues to participate in the open-forum discussion at the round table.

Meeting 3

Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

SIG Chrono - 3rd meeting

16 February 2026 at 10am CET time (Paris), total duration: 1h15-1h30, on ZOOM (link)

Intro [5 min] Martina Trognitz and Thomas Huet
Invited talk: “Beyond the Grant: Our Roadmap for the XRONOS Radiocarbon Database” [30 min] Martin Hinz (Institut für Archäologische Wissenschaften, Universität Bern, Switzerland) and Joe Roe ():

“Radiocarbon databases have become essential to archaeological synthesis, yet they are often fragmented and built as project deliverables: they grow quickly under grant timelines, then lose momentum once funding ends, leaving users with drifting standards, unclear provenance, and versions that are hard to cite with confidence. XRONOS began in that familiar mode, and although our proposal outlined a path toward long-term, trustless stewardship, we did not reach that governance design by the project’s end. Instead, we have effectively bought time by keeping XRONOS active through its integration into my ESTER project, with the explicit aim of handing it over to a community-run model within the next five years. This talk reflects on what we think it takes to turn a “project database” into durable infrastructure, and what we need to change now so the next phase can outlive any single grant, or any single person.”

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