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Archaeologists aren't always the most technically adept people. This is just a demonstration paper to promote acceptance of ML techniques in the somewhat conservative field of southwestern archeology. I'm not a big fan of this paper, but they made a good attempt to address reasonable concerns.

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> but they made a good attempt to address reasonable concerns.

I am guessing that, too.

It is weird how you can do extremely easy things in a field of application that is novel to the method and get huge amount of praise. I bet they will be called to speak on many archaelogy conferences to talk about it.

I am not jealous at all. And I truly respect the people behind the paper for doing something that no one else is doing. They are at least doing something new. And they deserve praise from people in their fields.

It's a well-known criticism among archaeologists of our field that we tend to borrow a lot more methodologies than we export to other disciplines, so this case isn't unique. There's been a lot of interest in ML applications, but personally as a former archeologist now working at an ML-heavy company in the bay, I'm a bit more skeptical. Just my 2c though.

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