Witch-hazel: Stanford Archaeology: Randy Haas - Time, place, and emergent complexity in forager societies, Am curious how we might add your field sites digitally and virtually into Google Street View with TIME SLIDER / Earth / with TensorFlow (and even with Translate - for the Aymara language today, and for emergent language re-constructions of this language's precursors from 7,000 years ago, for example - per my language questions) for further archaeological STEM research into place * * * Harbin Hot Springs in late '60s & early 70s, he was Director of the U.C. Davis Experimental College, and taught a 'class' on Harbin called 'Hydro Thermo Dynamics' :) re soaking in the Harbin warm and hot pools

- where I learned that a UC Davis faculty member (in extension school) used to teach an ACTUAL course on soaking in the Harbin warm pool - Hydro Thermo Dynamics :) -  using UC Davis vans to bring students there. I have a particular anthropological focus on the 1960s and 1970s, and hippies and the freedom-seeking movements of that time. How to explore this in a realistic virtual Harbin / realistic virtual California in a much more developed Google Street View with Time Slider by 'sliding' back to 1971, and getting in the bus in VR with them? :) This is very much what I have in mind re my actual-virtual, physical-digital Harbin Hot Springs' anthropological field site and field work, as one example. Such a Google-centric realistic virtual earth for STEM and social science and humanities, with Google's TensorFlow for machine learning (and even drawing on Wikidata's structured knowledge database in Wikipedia's 300 languages) will indeed become useful, and also become kaleidoscopically complex. 

I hope to facilitate a kind of simplicity in this with a new social science method I'm calling ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy - where we researchers can add our data (e.g. photos, videos, artifacts, simulations etc, with text, and equations, etc. in the side bar) to a virtual world like editing a wikipedia article, for example (and as ethnographic interpretation).

Thanks for your excellent Peruvian and Mongolian archaeology 'place' talks. And thanks for your timely updated blog post too, Kim :) And thanks for all of your recent talks. Looking forward to staying in touch about place, a realistic virtual earth for archaeology (at the cellular and atomic levels too - thinking Google Streetview + here too), and in planning for robotics for archaeology.