Data sharing in biological anthropology: Guiding principles and best practices

In 2017 the AAPA established an ad hoc committee on data access and data sharing; committee members were Trudy Turner (Chair), Connie Mulligan (Co‐Chair), Doug Boyer, Eric Delson, and William Leonard. With support from a NSF grant to the association, the committee led a workshop on data sharing in biological anthropology on February 8–9, 2019 in Milwaukee, WI. Forty participants representing all aspects of the field were able to reach consensus on data sharing. The goal of the workshop was to formalize a set of guiding principles and best practices in order to increase and normalize data sharing within biological anthropology. Here we present the results of the workshop and we invite comments through Letters to the Editor of AJPA from the biological anthropology community.