Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology 1989

✍ Scribed by Sebastian Rahtz, Julian Richards

• Publisher: BAR Publishing
• Year: 1989
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 396
• Series: BAR British Archaeological Reports International Series 548
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Cover
Copyright
Contents
1. Preface
2. Investment appraisal for information technology —the experience of the English Heritage record of scheduled monuments
3. Computerised county sites and monuments records in England —an overview of their structure, development and progress
4. SUPERFILE—a user's view
5. Using dBase for county SMRs: the Humberside experience
6. The Greater London Sites and Monuments Record —a case study
7. Sites and Monuments records in historic towns —problems in the development of computer records for urban areas
8. Pooling Resources: drawing on regional data from the computerized Sites and Monuments Records of the East Midlands
9. The National Archaeological Record
10. The ArcheoDATA Project
11. Algorithms for the enhancement and reconstruction of archaeological data sets
12. Image Processing In Archaeological Remote Sensing
13. Rectification of aerial photographs by means of desk-top systems
14. Image segmentation techniques for archaeological geochemical data
15. Recognising and controlling for cultivation-induced patterning in surface artefact distributions
16. Mathrafal: a case study in the application of computer graphics
17. Applying Solid Modelling and Animated Three-Dimensional Graphics
18. Deconvolution of ^T profile curves
19. Methods for Processing Digital Geophysical Data in Archaeology
20. Fifteen years of contributions of the French school of data analysis to quantitative archaeology
21. Seriation and Multivariate Statistics
22. Seriation by similarity and consistency
23. Principal Components Analysis of compositional data in archaeology
24. The chemical composition of tiles from Bordesley: a case study in data treatment
25. Geodetic and cartographic problems in archaeological data bases at and within the boundaries of some countries
26. Error structures of ceramic assemblages
27. The development of an integrated archaeological software system
28. The COMPASS System: Computer-Assisted Surveying and Mapping for Archaeological Fieldwork
29. Archaeological computing in South- Western Europe (France, Spain, Portugal and Andorra)
30. Hypercard as a teaching tool
31. Beyond classification: the use of artificial intelligence techniques for the interpretation of archaeological data
32. Shape Information in an artefact Database
33. The analysis of ancient Chinese pottery and porcelain shapes: a study of classical profiles from the Yangshao culture to the Qing dynasty using computerised profile data reduction, cluster analysis and fuzzy boundary discrimination
34. Rule-based Dating of Artefacts