Who can help
Most of these problems cannot be solved by historians alone. Each one lists the specialities whose methods or knowledge could move it forward. If you work in one of these fields, start with its page: it lists the problems where your expertise is needed and what, specifically, you could do.
- Archivists and librarianscataloguing, digitization, locating records23 problems
- Archaeologistsexcavation, field survey, site databases, radiocarbon, isotopes and materials analysis16 problems
- Geneticistsancient DNA of pathogens, people, plants and animals9 problems
- Epidemiologistsdisease transmission and mortality4 problems
- Demographerspopulation estimates and under-registration5 problems
- Geoscientistsvolcanology, ice cores, palaeoclimate, tsunami deposits, river courses4 problems
- Astronomersancient observations, dating by eclipses and conjunctions3 problems
- Statisticians and data scientistsmodelling, estimating what is missing, image and text analysis19 problems
- Computational linguistssign statistics, language models, stylometry12 problems
- Philologists and epigraphershistorical languages, scripts and manuscripts: medieval Arabic and Persian, Classical Chinese, Sanskrit, Ge'ez, cuneiform, Meroitic and others18 problems
- Cryptographerscodes and ciphers1 problem
- Conservation scientistsimaging and materials analysis of manuscripts, paintings and objects7 problems
- GIS specialistsmapping historical places, routes and boundaries8 problems
- Economistshistorical money, prices and production3 problems
- Musicologistsnotation, chant and the transmission of melodies1 problem