Digital archaeology bridging method and theory - Evans, Thomas L. (Thomas Laurence); Daly, Patrick T., 1975-; T&F eBooks (London ; New York : Routledge, 2006)
PART I. WHERE WE'VE BEEN AND WHERE WE ARE GOING -- Introduction: Archaeological theory and digital pasts / Patrick Daly, Thomas I. Evans -- Digital archaeology: a historical context / Ezra B.W. Zubrow -- PART II. DATA COLLECTION -- Archaeological survey in a digital world / Matt Bradley -- Drowning in data? Digital data in a British contracting unit / Paul Backhouse -- PART III. QUANTIFICATION MADE EASY -- 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 / Thomas L. Evans -- PART IV. MODELLING THE PAST -- Jouma's tent: Bedouin and digital archaeology / Carol Palmer, Patrick Daly -- Digital archaeology and the scalar structure of pastoral landscapes: modeling mobile societies of prehistoric Central Asia / Michael Frachetti -- What you see is what you get? Visualscapes, visual genesis and hierarchy / Marcos Llobera -- PART V. VIRTUAL WORLDS -- 'Digital gardening': an approach to simulating elements of palaeovegetation and some implications for the interpretation of prehistoric sites and landscapes / Benjamin R. Gearey, Henry P. Chapman -- At the gates of the lens: photography, graphical constructions and cinematography / Graeme P. Earl -- PART VI. DISSEMINATING THE DATA -- Electronic publication in archaeology / Julian D. Richards -- Computers, learning and teaching in archaeology: life past and present on the screen / Gary Lock -- What's another word for thesaurus? Data standards and classifying the past / Andrew Baines, Kenneth Brophy -- PART VII. CONCLUSION -- Afterword / Patrick Daly, Thomas L. Evans.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Also available in print edition.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Keywords: Archaeology -- Methodology; Digital electronics; Electronic digital computers; Archaeology -- Philosophy; Antiquities -- Collection and preservation; Cultural property -- Protection; Electronic books