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Remake/Remodel: Topic Modelling to examine shifting Archaeological Heritage Discourse Cover

Remake/Remodel: Topic Modelling to examine shifting Archaeological Heritage Discourse

Open Access
|Sep 2026

Figures & Tables

Figure 1

Publication rate of papers included in the dataset window.

Figure 2

Number of papers published in the top 5 most prevalent academic journals in the dataset.

Figure 3

Top 10 terms per 10 topics as found within Period 1: 1990–2001.

Table 1

Interpreted topic names for Period 1: 1990–2001.

TOPIC #TOPIC NAMEKEY TERMS
Topic 1Shifting Practiceschanging, practices, Geoffrey, recent, cultural
Topic 2Explored Monumentsmonument, evidence, question, analogy, show
Topic 3Bluestone Landscapebluestones, Wales, sources, area
Topic 4Conservation Impactsmonuments, conservation, political, government
Topic 5Social Relationshipssociety, suggests, megaliths, changes, new
Topic 6English ManagementEnglish, Avebury, visitor, national, management
Topic 7Prehistoric Managementdifferent, societies, recognition, prehistoric, management
Topic 8Neolithic PresenceNeolithic, role, present, interest, symbolic, ritual
Topic 9English Heritageheritage, Wainwright, England, sites, ancestors
Topic 10Built Pastprehistoric, construction, megalithic, past, contemporary
Figure 4

Top 10 terms per 11 topics as found within Period 2: 2002–2012.

Table 2

Interpreted topic names for Period 2: 2002–2012.

TOPIC #TOPIC NAMEKEY TERMS
Topic 1Neolithic Sitesprehistoric, Neolithic, site, features, landscapes
Topic 2Shifting Researchresearch, significance, change, future, British
Topic 3Built Heritagearchitectural, buildings, monuments, culture, society
Topic 4Bluestone Researchbluestone, data, landscape, source, new
Topic 5Heritage Materialsmaterial, monument, ritual, excavations
Topic 6Shifting Perceptionssite, data, project, interpretations, academic, new
Topic 7Heritage Managementheritage, management, sites, issues, historic, environment
Topic 8Heritage Tourismtourism, visitors, planning, resources, management
Topic 9Shifting Landscapelandscape, development, presented, new, results
Topic 10Natural Surroundingsnatural, area, interest, understanding, survey, sacred
Topic 11Present Contextdifferent, context, age, prehistory, today, major
Figure 5

Top 10 terms per 11 topics as found within Period 3: 2013–2022.

Table 3

Interpreted topic names for Period 3: 2013–2022.

TOPIC #TOPIC NAMEKEY TERMS
Topic 1Current Perspectivesprehistoric, present, development, recent, suggest
Topic 2Site Featuresinterpretations, evidence, acoustic, site, identified
Topic 3Shifting Researchresearch, landscape, data, knowledge, material
Topic 4Monument Studiesmonuments, new, prehistoric, studies, recent, objects
Topic 5Neolithic Featuresconstruction, Neolithic, presence, field, range, time
Topic 6World Heritageheritage, world, site, built, environment, people
Topic 7Site Excavationslandscape, complex, excavations, new, Salisbury
Topic 8English Monumentssarsen, monument, locations, England, geochemical
Topic 9Surrounding FeaturesNeolithic, late, Bronze, Durrington, walls, features
Topic 10Bluestone OriginsPreseli, bluestone, source, analyses, Wales, data, Mynydd
Topic 11Expanding Researchexperience, research, theory, British, project, new, work
Figure 6

Distribution of similarity patterns between all topics and periods.

Table 4

Overview of related topics between periods.

TOPICS WITH THE HIGHEST SIMILARITY BETWEEN PERIODS
Pair ABluestone Research (Period 2)Bluestone Origins (Period 3)
Pair BHeritage Management (Period 2)World Heritage (Period 3)
Pair CBluestone Landscape (Period 1)Bluestone Origins (Period 3)
Figure 7

Five main topics per period.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/jcaa.210 | Journal eISSN: 2514-8362
Language: English
Page range: 277 - 292
Submitted on: Mar 3, 2025
Accepted on: Jun 11, 2026
Published on: Sep 18, 2026
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

© 2026 Haley Anne Schwartz, Xavier Rubio Campillo, Ana Pastor Pérez, published by Ubiquity Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.