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Archaeology is collaborative, ongoing, and iterative. Our workflows are not unidirectional, but rather we work back and forth between the field, labs, and dissemination. With the advent of digital technologies, not only are workflows becoming faster and more numerous, collaborations are also spread wider, often global. Fieldwork teams comprise data recording experts using diverse non-digital and digital methods that in turn produce increasingly entangled datasets. While digital technologies have been part of archaeology for more than fifty years (Chenhall 1968; Richards 1998; Whallon 1972), archaeologists still look for more efficient methodologies to integrate digital practices of fieldwork recording with data management, analysis, and ultimately interpretation.

Digital technologies such as terrestrial and airborne laser scanning and photogrammetry allow us to acquire data rapidly from excavations, structures, and …