Digital Archaeology (eBook, ePUB)

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

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"Digital Archaeology is a unique edited work addressing the changing and growing role of digital technologies in all aspects of archaeology and heritage management. Exploring the wide potential of IT across the discipline, this book goes beyond the prevailing notion that computers are merely a methodological tool, and considers their influence on the very nature of archaeological study.
Blending rigorous archaeological theory with the extensive practical knowledge of professionals in the field, Digital Archaeology is a highly accessible text that shows and discusses the ways in which computing can be holistically incorporated into archaeology. The book discusses elements of archaeological theory and reveals how computers can be used to reintegrate theoretical questions into the application of field work and analysis.
Beginning with a history of the growth of computing within the field, the book goes on to look at examples of how and why different technologies have been implemented into archaeological theory and method. It includes GIS, virtual reality modelling, internet publishing and archiving, and on-site digital recording using such examples as the integrated digital recording of the Ferrybridge Chariot and other case studies from around the world. This volume also discusses ways in which technology can now be used in normal excavations and how this affects the study of archaeology as a whole, from planning to publication.

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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