On the Theory and Practice of Archaeological Computing - Couverture souple

Lock, Gary; Brown, Kayt

 
9780947816513: On the Theory and Practice of Archaeological Computing

Synopsis

These nine papers, based on the 4th World Archaeological Congress held in South Africa in 1999, take a critical view of computer usage in archaeology and study its impact on the discipline and especially in terms of archaeological method and theory. Contents: Introduction (Gark Lock & Kayt Brown); Computers and archaeological cultural change (J Huggett); Archaeological computing and disciplinary theory (J Gidlow); Mathematics and computers (H Forsyth); Virtual reality (G Goodrick & M Gillings); Archaeological archives for the 21st century (F Grew); Intellectual excavation (A Beck); English sites and monuments records (B Robinson); Can computers help aerial survey? (R Palmer); Is there such a thing as `Computer Archaeology'?

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À propos de l?auteur

Gary Lock is Emeritus Professor of Archaeology at the University of Oxford. His research interests include computer applications and quantitative methods in archaeology especially Geographical Information Systems, their application and theoretical aspects (current interests are modelling visibility and movement).

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