Computer and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology 1987

✍ Scribed by C. L. N. Ruggles (editor), S. P. Q. Rahtz (editor)

• Publisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Ltd
• Year: 1988
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 322
• Series: BAR British Archaeological Reports International Series 393
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

"The 1987 Computer Applications in Archaeology (CAA) conference, held at the University of Leicester"--P. xiii.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Cover
Copyright
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Foreword
Addresses of Contributors
Part I. QUANTITATIVE METHODS
1. Correspondence analysis as an exploratory technique for stratigraphic abundance data
2. Multivariate Analysis of lithic industries: the influence of typology
3. The finds patern of archaeological excavations: Correspondence Analysis as explorative tool
4. Multivariate statistics and asemblage comparison
5. Some results on mathematical seriation with applications
6. Multi-Response permutation procedures
7. From sherds to blocks: statistics and the archaeological sample
8. How many tombs make a site?
9. DATRAN: analysing radiocarbon dates
10. Statistical Analysis of Particle Sizes and Sediments
11. Viking setlers in the Isle of Man: some simulation experiments
12. Simulation as a methodological tool: inferring hunting goals from faunal asemblages
13. How to simulate if you must
14. Methods for finding calendar date bands from multiple-valued radiocarbon calibration curves
Part II. GRAPHICS
15. Standardisation in computer graphics: an introduction to GKS
16. Digital terrain modeling and three-dimensional surface graphics for landscape and site analysis in archaeology and regional planning
17. New perspectives on Suton Hoo: the potential of 3-D graphics
18. Computer graphics and the perception of archaeological information: Lies, damned statistics and ... graphics!
19. Experiments with gridded survey data
20. Expanding the Role of Computer Graphics in the Analysis of Survey Data
Part III. EXPERT SYSTEMS
21. Towards an archaeological methodology for expert systems
22. Expert systems and archaeology: what lies ahead?
23. Accessing outline shape information efficiently within a large database: database compaction techniques
24. Some computer applications to petrological analysis of pottery
Part IV. DATABASES AND COMMUNICATION
25. Optical disc storage: another can of worms?
26. Compacting Anglo-Saxon cemetery data
27. From hand-writen archive to computer-readable data
28. The Integrated Archaeological Database
29. The development of a bibliographic information retrieval system for archaeological reports using thesauri
30. Phototypesetting and desk-top publishing systems in archaeology