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Title Digital archaeology : bridging method and theory / edited by Thomas L. Evans & Patrick Daly
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 262 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents 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
Summary Digital Archaeology addresses how digital technologies have been and can be incorporated within different aspects of archaeology and heritage management
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Archaeology -- Methodology.
Digital electronics.
Electronic digital computers.
Archaeology -- Philosophy.
Antiquities -- Collection and preservation.
Cultural property -- Protection.
Computers.
computers.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology.
Computers
Antiquities -- Collection and preservation
Archaeology -- Methodology
Archaeology -- Philosophy
Cultural property -- Protection
Digital electronics
Electronic digital computers
Form Electronic book
Author Evans, Thomas L. (Thomas Laurence)
Daly, Patrick T., 1975-
LC no. 2004028972
ISBN 0203005260
9780203005262
9786610291823
6610291829
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