York Hosts AI and Archaeology Training School

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Posted on Tuesday 14 October 2025

Early Career Researchers from across Europe Trained in Artificial Intelligence.

The participants of the COST Action MAIA Training School on steps in the King's Manor.

Early in September we held “Creative, Critical and Practical Uses of Artificial Intelligence in Archaeology: the MAIA Training School at York” We covered ethics, LLMs, digital twins, visualising archaeology, and prefiguring uses of AI that forefront community & environment.

The MAIA COST Action Training School, “Creative, Critical and Practical Uses of Artificial Intelligence in Archaeology: the MAIA Training School at York” occurred September 2-4, 2025, King’s Manor, Department of Archaeology, University of York, UK. The participants underwent three days of intensive training and discussion regarding the future of Artificial Intelligence in archaeology.

The course was led by Colleen Morgan and Holly Wright (ADS), with lectures from Colleen Morgan, James Taylor, Peter Schauer, Guy Schofield from the University of York, and Miriana Somenzi and Aida Himmiche from the ARIADNE Research Infrastructure.

Participants learned about the ethical and political dimensions of archaeology, large language models, digital twins, visualising archaeology, and prefiguring uses of AI that forefront community and environment.

The school was funded by the Managing Artificial Intelligence in Archaeology (MAIA) COST Action CA23141.