Digital Data and Data Literacy in Archaeology Now and in the New Decade

OVERVIEW Digital data play an increasingly important role in how we understand the present and past. The challenges inherent understanding using digital are as intellectually demanding any other archaeological research endeavor. For these reasons, management cannot be regarded a simple compliance or technical issue. to meaningfully preserved used rigorous ways, they need integrated fully into all aspects of practice, including ethics, teaching, publishing. In this review, highlight some significant multifaceted involved managing data, documentation, training, methodology, modeling, trust, ethical concerns. We then focus on importance building literacy broadly among archaeologists so that can manage communicate our discipline creates. This involves more than learning use new tool finding manager for one's excavation survey. Long-term, responsible stewardship requires workflows human roles management. Putting effort now thoughtful broad data-literacy training means will able make most “bigger” produce. An aspect reorientation look beyond boundaries own projects information systems. Future research, public engagement needs also compel us explore articulates with wider contexts—within discipline.