Antiquity via ZMEscience
Posted on 10/26/2024 8:07:11 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
More than 6,500 volunteers have assisted with the identification of some 1,000 prehistoric burial mounds in the central Netherlands in the Heritage Quest project, according to a ZME Science report. The citizen scientists were tasked with reviewing small image tiles compiled from lidar data. Each tile was analyzed by at least 15 trained volunteers to reduce the possibility of errors. Archaeologists then traveled to 380 sites chosen by the volunteers and collected soil samples from each. The study determined that about 59 percent of the sites identified by the volunteers were actual burial mounds. When more than seven volunteers agreed on the presence of a barrow, that number rose to 75 percent, and when more than 12 citizen scientists agreed, the rate of accuracy rose to 85 percent. "What would have taken professional archaeologists years to accomplish was achieved in a matter of months thanks to the combination of lidar technology and citizen participation," said Quentin Bourgeois of Leiden University. The identification of these prehistoric sites will help government and heritage organizations to protect them from development, he added, explaining that many of the volunteers have now become vocal advocates for the preservation of these prehistoric landscapes. Read the original scholarly article about this research in Antiquity.
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It does not say if any of these sites can be found because of global warming? Which would mean sometime before manmade GW, it was also warm. Not sure how that could happen without fossil fuels. / sarc
The government scientists couldn’t find this?
Or perhaps they meant as opposed to illegal alien scientists.
Cheese made from dinosaur milk.
Is it too hard for people to accept that a) amateur scientists are properly called amateur scientists, and b) mere scientists who are not amateurs are still only citizens like the rest of us?
Why should anyone care about that?
Well that’s the question isn’t it? Why does the so-called “news” media persist with the “citizen scientist” nonsense when the term is so unambiguously nonsensical?
Huh?
Mijn zus woonde in Tiel en ik bezocht haar daar. Toen we s'ochtends vroeg daar in de omgeving wandelden, kreeg ik een akelijk, doods gevoel van stilte dat in de lucht hing, of misschien kwam vanuit de grond.
Zij had er geen last van, tenminste waarvan ze sprak.
(translation)
(Yet another amateur volunteer (me):)
My sister lived in Tiel and I visited her there. When we would walk in the area in the early morning, I got a creepy, uneasy feeling of deathly stillness that hung in the air, or maybe, from under the ground.
It didn't seem to bother my sister, at least that she mentioned.
Your question is, the term is not.
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