Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology 1990

✍ Scribed by Kris Lockyear, Sebastian Rahtz, Clive Orton, Paul Reilly, Gary Lock, Julian Richards, Nick Ryan

• Publisher: BAR Publishing
• Year: 1991
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 226
• Series: BAR British Archaeological Reports International Series 565
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Cover
Copyright
Contents
List of Figures
Preface
1. Using public communication services for archaeological applications
2. SyGraf — resource based teaching with graphics
3. Every picture tells a story: 'The Archaeology Disc' and its implications
4. Putting the public in the picture: an interactive video applications generator
5. LIVE update: archaeological courseware using interactive video
6. Matrix processing of stratigraphic graphs: a new method
7. The computer representation of space in urban archaeology
8. SQL and hypertext generation of stratigraphic adjacency matrices
9. A new graph theoretic oriented program for Harris Matrix analysis
10. The ArcheoDATA System - towards a European archaeological document
11. Practical considerations for long term data conservation and analysis
12. How safe is your data?
13. Procuring medium-large systems in the public sector — the experience of the English Heritage Record of Scheduled Monuments
14. The operational requirement for a medium to large-scale system — the experience of the new English heritage record of scheduled monuments
15. A computational Bayes approach to some common archaeological problems
16. Some statistical problems arising in radiocarbon calibration
17. Graphical modelling of archaeological data
18. Statistical analysis of ceramic assemblages — a year's progress
19. A technique for reducing the size of sparse contingency tables
20. An approach to quantifying window glass
21. Towards a virtual archaeology
22. Furness Abbey survey project — The application of computer graphics and data visualisation to reconstruction modelling of an historic monument
23. Images, databases and edge detection for archaeological object drawings
24. Visualisation of sherd movement in the plough zone
25. Integrating spatial information in computerised Sites and Monuments Records: meeting archaeological requirements in the 1990s
26. Terrain modelling, deposit survival and urban archaeology
27. Computer and hardware modelling of archaeological sediment transport on hillslopes
28. Simulating coin hoard formation
29. Formal methods for the analysis of archaeological data: data analysis vs expert systems
30. Palamede — application of expert systems to the archaeology of prehistoric urban civilisations