About
Kharaneh IV Archaeological Site
The Kharaneh IV project explores the nature of interaction and aggregation at the end of the Pleistocene through the multi-component Early and Middle Epipalaeolithic site Kharaneh IV, Jordan. The high density of artifacts, repeated occupation, and the presence of multiple habitation structures suggests that Kharaneh IV was a hunter-gatherer aggregation site—a focal point on the landscape for community interaction. To address long-term changes and explore the nature of hunter-gatherer behavior at the cusp of agriculture, this project examines the high-resolution archaeological record of multi-season, prolonged, and repeated habitation of the region’s largest and densest hunter-gatherer aggregation site.
Purpose of my project: An Overall Bare Minumum of Archaeological Curation
To create exhibitions for artifacts and material evidence and discuss importance behind the site Kharaneh IV. Currently, the only shareable format of findings is through the project's website, which mainly consists of lengthy, scientific publications, or focuses more on the fieldwork and students that attend excavation.
To make these materials ready for public access, I am assembling various artifact types, site features, people and publications affiliated with the project.
This project will add to examples of publicly shared archaeological data. Therefore, enhancing abilities for cross-analysis, research, and public knowledge. As discussion past publication is not a common practice in many archaeological sites, as they are deemed not worthy for to musuem halls, much knowledge falls through. Also, many archaeologists are able to get away with not hosting all their information to the public, which is a social justice problem overall in regards to studying culture and feminist ethnography.
Items and Materials
In this site, I am assembling scanned pages of field notes, exemplary artifacts, site features, publications, and people involved with the project into an Item Set which will serve as the container for the image Items.
Metadata for the Kharaneh IV Archaeological site itself if recorded in the Item Set metadata, while metadata on the project materials and examples are within the Item tombstone. This "test case" is demonstrating how Omeka S can serve the 21st Century Curation Crisis in Archaeology but making archaeological information and data public and accessible. Publications written for scientific minds are summarized, importance is directly discussed, and viewing of cultural materials is made possible.
This "test case" also provides examples on when we combine different mediums of archaeological materials into a collection, how we store their metadata, and making metadata for an object as interoperable as possible for any database.
Resource Template and Controlled Vocabulary
My resource template contains 10 metadata elements from Dublin Core, crosswalked to match the DOLMEN interoperability.
Alexandre Fortier, Elaine Ménard, Laying the Ground for DOLMEN: Offering a Simple Standardization Starts with Understanding What Museums Do
Title: Library of Congress ALL - Chosen to be able to include all titles
Subject: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms - Chosen to include all cultural material types
Creator: Library of Congress Cultural Heritage Organization - Chosen to represent derivative culture
Medium: Library of Congress Classification - Chosen to include all medium types
Identifier: Library of Congress ALL - Chosen to be able to include all terms discussing analysis
Spatial Coverage: Getty Thesaurus for Geographic Names - Chosen for describing location
Temporal Coverage: Getty Art and Architecture Thesaurus - Chosen for describing time period
Access Rights: Getty Art and Architecture Thesaurus
Source: Library of Congress ALL - Chosen for the ability to add project title, leads, or publications images are derived from