Digital archaeology resists the (digital) neo-colonialism of Google, Facebook, and similar tech giants that typically promote disciplinary silos and closed code and data repositories.
This quote highlights the important ethical dimension of digital archaeology. Showing how open access and collaborative tools in digital archaeology challenge corporate control over knowledge. It aligns with using open GIS platforms that I will use for my projects and open data policy.
Digital archaeology should exist to assist us in the performance of archaeology as a whole. It should not be a secret knowledge, nor a distinct school of thought, but rather simply seen as archaeology done well, using all of the tools available to and in better recovering, understanding and presenting the past.
This expresses the idea that digital tools should be acting as extensions of thought rather than replacements. It connects to my final project because GIS and digital mapping help interpret archaeological data more effectively without detaching from human analysis.