1000 Previously Undiscovered Prehistoric Barrows Found
<div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="schema:primaryImageOfPage og:image rdfs:seeAlso" resource="https://www.ancient-origins.net/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/Barrows.jpeg?itok=T-qyTOCU"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://www.ancient-origins.net/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/Barrows.jpeg?itok=T-qyTOCU" width="610" height="343" alt="Dr Wouter Verschoof-van der Vaart with volunteers at one of the burial mounds identified during the project." /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="schema:description content:encoded"><p>More than 6,500 volunteers have supported the accurate identification of approximately 1,000 prehistoric burial mounds in the Netherlands in just four months, proving the value of involving volunteers in archaeology.</p>
<p>In 2018, the Heritage Quest project was launched to harness the power of? citizen? scientists, utilizing crowd-sourcing to identify archaeological features on lidar imagery of the central Netherlands.</p>
<p>Through the involvement of thousands of people online, prehistoric burial mounds were identified across the region in a short amount of time. However, the accuracy of crowd-sourced data has been questioned in the past, as the majority of volunteers are not professional archaeologists.</p>
<p>"While the volume of data exceeded our expectations, we faced a key challenge common to large citizen science projects: how reliable are the detections made by volunteers?" states lead author of the research, Dr. Quentin Bourgeois from Leiden University.</p>
<p>To assess the accuracy of the data, the authors performed a ground-based survey of 380 sites identified during the study, examining them in person to determine whether they were in fact prehistoric barrows. Their results are published in the journal?
Antiquity.</p>
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