Digital Archaeology (eBook, ePUB)

Bridging Method and Theory
Redaktion: Daly, Patrick; Evans, Thomas L.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The use of computers in archaeology is entering a new phase of unparalleled development, moving on from a specialist methodology on the margins to a powerful practical and analytical tool used across all areas of archaeological interest. With a thorough examination of the ways in which both everyday and cutting-edge technologies can be used to inform and enhance traditional methods, this book brings together ideology from the academic world and pragmatic, concrete examples to show how fieldwork, theory and technology fit together today as never before.

Covering a history of the rise of computer use in archaeology as well as a thorough assessment of a number of high profile examples such as the Ferrybridge Chariot, this book shows how new technologies have been implemented into both theory and method as an integral part of the archaeological process.

With contributions from renowned experts, experienced professionals and emerging names in the field, this unique, forward-thinking book brings together previously disparate aspects of archaeology in a new holistic approach to the study of the past. A companion website is also available to allow further study of the images included.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. August 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134388189
• Artikelnr.: 42641616

Autorenporträt

Thomas L. Evans is Head of Geomatics for Oxford Archaeology and a Research Associate at the University of Oxford's Institute of Archaeology. Patrick Daly is currently a British Academy Reckitt Travelling Fellow in Archaeology based at the McDonald Institute of Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge.

Inhaltsangabe

PART I Where we've been and where we are going Introduction: archaeological
theory and digital pasts 1 Digital archaeology: a historical context PART
II Data collection 2 Archaeological survey in a digital world 3 Drowning in
data? Digital data in a British contracting unit PART III Quantification
made easy 4 You, me and IT: the application of simple quantitative
techniques in the examination of gender, identity and social reproduction
in the Early to Middle Iron Age of northeastern France PART IV Modelling
the past 5 Jouma's tent: Bedouin and digital archaeology 6 Digital
archaeology and the scalar structure of pastoral landscapes: modeling
mobile societies of prehistoric Central Asia 7 What you see is what you
get? Visualscapes, visual genesis and hierarchy PART V Virtual worlds 8
'Digital gardening': an approach to simulating elements of palaeovegetation
and some implications for the interpretation of prehistoric sites and
landscapes 9 At the edges of the lens: photography, graphical constructions
and cinematography PART VI Disseminating the data 190 10 Electronic
publication in archaeology 11 Computers, learning and teaching in
archaeology: life past and present on the screen 12 What's another word for
thesaurus? Data standards and classifying the Past PART VII Conclusion