Understanding GenAI use in Australian Archaeology – Speakers Caiti D'Gluyas and Marc Cheeseman
Abstract
AI technologies are reshaping how we work, whether we acknowledge it or not. Across Australian archaeology, practitioners are quietly trialling, adopting, and rejecting AI tools in ways that remain largely invisible to colleagues and professional bodies. Without open conversation, we risk loosing control over how these technologies shape our discipline. This paper draws on survey data and interviews with practitioners across Australia to ask: what is AI actually being used for, and what do archaeologists think about it? The findings are a starting point for something more important, a collective conversation about how we might better guide generative AI in our workplaces.
About the Presenters
Dr. Caiti D’Gluyas
Caiti (second from right) is an early career academic in archaeology, cultural heritage and history. She joined the UQ archaeology team in 2024 as a lecturer. Her work primarily examines the impacts and outcomes of British colonisation on people in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Caiti’s work combines historical archaeology, landscape archaeology and spatial analysis in GIS to explore the spatial history of Australia. She is currently writing a book about the archaeology of Point Puer.
Dr. Marc Cheeseman
Marc is a historical zooarchaeologist interested in human-animal relationships in post-1788 Australia. His recent PhD thesis focused on the cultural meaning of food and the performance of identity through food in British and Chinese migrant contexts in Queensland. His research interests also include reframing pseudoarchaeology as an educational tool - let's talk about Atlantis!
About Archaeology Working Papers
The Working Papers in Archaeology seminar series provides a forum for dissemination of archaeological research and ideas amongst UQ archaeology students and staff. All students are invited to attend the series and postgraduate students, from honours upwards, are invited to present their research. The aim is to provide opportunities for students, staff and those from outside UQ, to present and discuss their work in an informal environment. It is hoped that anyone interested in current archaeological directions, both within and outside the School and University, will be able to attend and contribute to the series.
