1. The Eastern Woodlands Household Archaeology Data Project

2. What I’m going to tell you

3. What is the EWHADP?

4. EWHADP www.householdarchaeology.org

5. Why create the EWHADP?

6. Problem: there is no single place to ask the question

8. The problem with regionalization

9. Example 1: Early hunter-gatherers in eastern North America

10. Example 2: Middle Woodland exchange networks

12. My approach to this question required household-level data spanning large scales of time and space.

13. The problem is not with the quantity of information, but with our mechanisms for sharing it.

14. EWHADP Goals

15. Site organization philosophy: KISS

17. Site Components

21. Early Results

22. Early Results

25. Data available for quick comparisons

26. Temporal trends

27. Build it and they will come

28. Why Link Data?

30. Returning to my work . . .

31. Conclusions

32. Linking specialized and generalized datasets that crosscut regions would significantly enhance our ability to address “big” research questions.

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35. Thank you