Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology 1994

✍ Scribed by Jeremy Huggett and Nick Ryan with Ewan Campbell, Clive Orton, Stephen Shennan

• Publisher: BAR Publishing
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 266
• Series: BAR British Archaeological Reports International Series 600
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Cover
Copyright
Contents
Preface
1. Has archaeology remained aloof from the information age?
2. Archaeological computing, archaeological theory and moves towards contextualism
3. The good, the bad, and the downright misleading: archaeological adoption of computer visualization
4. Democracy, data and archaeological knowledge
5. The development and implementation of a computer-based learning package in archaeology
6. Characterizing novice and expert knowledge: towards an intelligent tutoring system for archaeological science
7. The ENVARCH project
8. Multimedia communication in archaeology — why and how
9. An electronic guide to the buildings of ancient Rome
10. The incorporation of cluster analysis into multidimensional matrix analysis
11. Graphical presentation of results from principal components analysis
12. Measuring biological affinity among populations: a case study of Romano-British and Anglo-Saxon populations
13. Spatial interrelationships analysis and its simple statistical tools
14. Conservation condition surveys at the British Museum
15. Flavian fort sites in South Wales: a spreadsheet analysis
16. Identifying your local slag... the use of quantitative methods and microstructure analysis in determining the provenance of British bloomery slags from the late iron age to the end of the Roman occupation
17. Quantitative analysis of Etruscan cinerary urns
18. Multivariate methods for the classification of Lower and Middle Palaeolithic stone inventories
19. A method for the analysis of incomplete data and its application to monastic settlements in Italy (4th-6th century)
20. Survey sampling, right or wrong?
21. Global palaeoclimate modelling approaches: some considerations for archaeologists
22. ID-MARGARY: an Inference Database for the MApping Recognition and Generation of Ancient Roads and trackwaYs
23. An application of GIS to intra-site spatial analysis: the Iberian Iron Age cemetery at El Cigarralejo (Murcia, Spain)
24. A GIS approach to the study of non-systematically collected data: a case study from the Mediterranean
25. Detection of beacon networks between ancient hill-forts using a digital terrain model based GIS
26. Remote sensing, GIS and electronic surveying: reconstructing the city plan and landscape of Roman Corinth
27. Image processing and interpretation of ground penetrating radar data
28. Reconstructing a Bronze Age Site with CAD
29. Computer applications in the fields of archaeology and museology in Hungary
30. Computerising the lists of historic buildings in England: a historical case study on initiating a national project
31. Concepts of informational and statistical processing of archaeological data in the computer centre of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography in Novosibirsk
32. Towards a computerised desktop: the Integrated Archaeological Database System
33. The excavation archive as hyperdocument?
34. The Bonestack: a stack for old bones
35. INSITE: an interactive visualisation system for archaeological sites
36. SYSAND: a system for the archaeological excavations of Anderitum (Javols, Loüre, France)
37. Computer-aided design techniques for the graphical modelling of data from the prehistoric site of Runnymede, Berkshire
38. The Archaeological Data Archive Project
39. A new method of off-line text recognition
40. The use of computers in the decipherment of the Hackness Cross cryptic inscriptions