The investigation investigating itself

AI ARCHAEOLOGY

AI is part of the method — and therefore part of the archive.

Earlier work using AI to recover and organise the archive.

Interpretive readings that must remain distinct from primary evidence.

Errors and corrections are part of the archaeological record.

Earlier generated narratives and reverse readings, pending provenance where necessary.

Central idea

We are not only reconstructing the experience. We are reconstructing the reconstruction of the experience.

AI output is never silently promoted into historical source material. Its date, provenance and relationship to the original archive matter.