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Patricia Murrieta-Flores

Prof Patricia Murrieta-Flores is Chair in Digital Humanities at the History Department, FASS Director of Artificial Intelligence Research and Strategy, and Co-Director of the Digital Humanities Centre at Lancaster University. She is an historical archaeologist and specialist in the history of early colonial Mexico. Her areas of research are landscape archaeology, the Spatial Humanities, and the creation and application of methods from Artificial Intelligence for Humanities research.

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Reimagining Mesoamerican and Colonial Historical Archaeology with Artificial Intelligence

Discover how AI transforms historical research, from deciphering vast colonial archives to mapping forgotten geographies. Using cutting-edge tools like NLP, computer vision, and GIS, researchers uncover hidden narratives in 16th-century documents like the Relaciones Geográficas de Nueva España. This fusion of technology and collaboration with Indigenous communities is reshaping our understanding of history, making the past more accessible.