Summer School in Digital Archaeology, Barcelona, September 10–14, 2018

The aim of the Summer School is to provide comprehensive training in computational modelling in archaeology. In particular, we will focus on agent-based modelling, network science, semantic technology, and research software development.

The Summer School is open to masters and PhD student in archaeology, anthropology, history or a similar subject, post-docs and early career researchers, lecturers, commercial archaeologists, and heritage specialists.

Participants will learn:

• the modelling process, from finding the right research questions to publishing your groundbreaking results;
• the theory and practice of agent-based modelling, network science and semantic modelling;
• how to model archaeological data and how to create an archaeological simulation;
• basic and intermediate programming skills in NetLogo and Pandas (Python data analysis library;
• how to make your code better, clearer and faster.