Foundations of Digital Arch{\\ae}oludology

Digital Archaeoludology (DAL) is a new field of study involving the analysis\nand reconstruction of ancient games from incomplete descriptions and\narchaeological evidence using modern computational techniques. The aim is to\nprovide digital tools and methods to help game historians and other researchers\nbetter understand traditional games, their development throughout recorded\nhuman history, and their relationship to the development of human culture and\nmathematical knowledge. This work is being explored in the ERC-funded Digital\nLudeme Project.\n The aim of this inaugural international research meeting on DAL is to gather\ntogether leading experts in relevant disciplines - computer science, artificial\nintelligence, machine learning, computational phylogenetics, mathematics,\nhistory, archaeology, anthropology, etc. - to discuss the key themes and\nestablish the foundations for this new field of research, so that it may\ncontinue beyond the lifetime of its initiating project.\n