Archaeologists and epigraphers have long worked in concert across methodological and theoretical differences to study past writing. Ongoing integration of digital technologies into both fields is extending this collaboration’s scope by facilitating rapid information exchange, integration of multiple datasets in digital formats, and accumulation and analysis of large datasets. Recent research by the Maya Hieroglyphic Database Project, for example, has deployed social network analysis to correlate ritual practice, discourse, and material culture with political interactions. Similarly, epigraphers and archaeologists of pre-Angkorian and Angkorian Southeast Asia have conducted spatial analysis to illuminate the relationship between economy, human mobility, and land use. Collectively, these examples illustrate how scholars are already using digital technologies for research at larger scales and with more diverse datasets than was previously possible. Moreover, they point to further directions for articulating text, material, and context in future studies of the human past.

考古学家和碑文学家长期以来就方法论和理论上的分歧进行了协调研究，以研究过去的著作。正在进行的将数字技术集成到两个领域中，通过促进快速信息交换，数字格式的多个数据集的集成以及大型数据集的积累和分析，扩展了此合作的范围。例如，Maya象形文字数据库项目的最新研究已经部署了社交网络分析，以将仪式实践，话语和物质文化与政治互动联系起来。同样，前安哥拉时期和东南亚安哥拉时期的考古学家和考古学家进行了空间分析，以阐明经济，人类流动性和土地利用之间的关系。总的来说，这些例子说明了学者们已经如何使用数字技术进行大规模研究，并拥有比以前更多的数据集。此外，它们还指出了进一步的方向，以便在对人类过去的未来研究中阐明文本，材料和上下文。