Part of a series of blog posts celebrating the 10^th anniversary of the journal Advances in Archaeological Practice.

It may come as somewhat of a surprise that the Digital Reviews Editor for Advances in Archaeological Practice is calling for an end to the concept of ‘Digital Archaeology’.  I have been engaged in this subfield of archaeology for my entire career, including writing an article for AAP that would likely be categorized in that subfield (Centimeter-Level Recording for All: Field Experimentation with New, Affordable Geolocation Technology).  Yet, I often wonder if the digital is actually changing archaeology itself, our understanding of the past through material remains, or is it only impacting the ways we do our work?  Should there be a subfield of ‘trowel archaeology’?  Okay, I am exaggerating a little here, but on a positive note, I do look forward to the time when digital methods are so thoroughly integrated into archaeology that we simply talk about ‘methods’ or ‘practice’ and not include the qualifier ‘digital.’  I hope that all archaeologists will soon use digital ways of doing things as a routine part of all work.  Thus, I also anticipate the time when this journal no longer publishes ‘digital reviews,’ but simply publishes ‘reviews,’ most of which naturally happen to include digital elements in them.

In the meantime, I am very appreciative that the SAA and AAP have enabled the publication of so many interesting articles about digital topics in the digital reviews.  It is also extremely important that these are all openly available for anyone in the world to read for free.  So, I invite you to reflect on general trends in digital archaeology by reading articles such as Mixing Worlds: Current Trends in Integrating the Past and Present through Augmented and Mixed Reality . Or consider how archaeologists might collaborate with video game developers to convey archaeology, by reading Have Video Games Evolved Enough to Teach Human Origins? The latest digital review can catch you up on the state-of-the-art in platforms for public archaeology, so please read: The Portable Antiquities of the Netherlands: A Review. And don’t forget to reflect on the typical data recording activities that are occurring at excavations across the world today by reading Foregrounding Daily Data Collection on Archaeological Fieldwork.

Anyone can write a digital review for AAP!  We particularly invite international contributions and articles from students.  We can assist with English editing.  If you have an idea, please get in touch to discuss your topic further.