The democratization of technology

Since the explicit collaboration of biological and physical scientists with archaeologists started in the late 1930s, the discourse on the nature of this collaboration has been intense. The question of the relative roles of the specialist scientist and the archaeologist in the collaboration, and the training and experience of both in the use of scientific techniques of recording and analysis is still not resolved, as we indicate by our experience in the Catalhoyuk Archaeological Project in Turkey. In this paper, we expand this discourse to examine the more recent collaboration of archaeologists with computer graphics specialists as archaeologists increasingly incorporate cutting-edge and not-so-cutting-edge digital technologies into their practice.