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Archaeology in the Digital Era : Papers from the 40th Annual Conference of Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA), Southampton, 26-29 March 2012 / ed. by Timothy Sly, David Wheatley, Iza Romanowska, Konstantinos Papadopoulos, Patricia Murrieta-Flores, Angeliki Chrysanthi, Earl Earl.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in ArchaeologyPublisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (482 p.) : 377 figures, 32 tablesContent type:
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  • 9789089646637
  • 9789048519590
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  • 930.1028
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION, MULTIMEDIA, MUSEUMS -- Disciplinary Issues: Challenging the Research and Practice of Computer Applications in Archaeology -- Paperless Recording at the Sangro Valley Project -- ‘Tangible Pasts’: User-centred Design of a Mixed Reality Application for Cultural Heritage -- The Virtual Museum: a Quest for the Standard Definition -- Can you Hack (the) Communication? -- Identifying and Tracing Archaeological Material with RFID Tags -- Matera Città Narrata Project: a Multimedia and Multi-Platform Guide for Mobile Systems -- Evaluating Virtual Museums: Archeovirtual Case Study -- SIMULATING THE PAST -- Extracting Scar and Ridge Features from 3D-scanned Lithic Artifacts -- Retracing Prehistoric Population Events in Finland Using Simulation -- SteppingIn - Modern Humans Moving into Europe - Implementation -- Geospatial Virtual Heritage: A Gesture-Based 3D GIS to Engage the Public with Ancient Maya Archaeology -- Integration of 3D Laser Scanning and Virtual Reconstructions as Research and Educational Tools for Representing the Past. The Case Study of Roman Baths of Edeta -- Reconstructing the Baths of Caracalla -- Instruments and Methods for the Survey and Analysis of Amphitheatres -- Why Hunter and Gatherers did not Die More Often? Simulating Prehistoric Decision Making -- Reconstruction of Ruined Archaeological Structures Using Structural Analysis Methods -- FIELD AND LAB RECORDING -- Telling the Story of Ancient Coins by Means of Interactive RTI Images Visualization -- IBISA 3D: Image-Based Identification/Search for Archaeology Using a Three-dimensional Coin Model -- Using Image Analysis to Match a Coin to a Database -- Pompeii Revived: Scanning Mission - Insula V 1 -- A Metrology Tracking System Used as a 3D Drawing Tool for Faster Excavation Recording -- DATA MODELLING AND SHARING -- From the Slope of Enlightenment to the Plateau of Productivity: Developing Linked Data at the ADS -- Reflections on the Rocky Road to E-Archaeology -- Least-cost Networks -- Linking Roman Coins: Current Work at the American Numismatic Society -- GeoDia: or, Navigating Archaeological Time and Space in an American College Classroom -- DATA ANALYSIS, MANAGEMENT, INTEGRATION AND VISUALISATION -- Dating Historical Rock Art on Marble Surfaces by Means of a Mathematical Model for Natural Erosion Processes -- Cultural Heritage Application Schema: a SDI Framework within the Protected Sites INSPIRE Spatial Data Theme -- Old Places, New Ideas: New Routes into Canmore, the National Inventory of Scotland -- ADS easy: an Automated e-archiving System for Archaeology -- Archaeology in Broad Strokes: Collating Data for England from 1500 BC to AD 1086 -- Beyond Inspire: Towards Delivering Richer Heritage Data in Scotland -- SEAD - The Strategic Environmental Archaeology Database Inter-linking Multiproxy Environmental Data with Archaeological Investigations and Ecology -- Obscura itinera: a GIS-based Approach to Understand the pre-Roman and Roman Transhumance Pathways in Umbria and Sabina Regions (Central Italy) -- Transparency, Testing and Standards for Archaeological Predictive Modelling -- SPATIAL ANALYSIS -- Zooming Patterns Among the Scales: a Statistics Technique to Detect Spatial Patterns Among Settlements -- The Long and Winding Road: Combining Least Cost Paths and Network Analysis Techniques for Settlement Location Analysis and Predictive Modelling -- Can Infovis Tools Support the Analysis of Spatio-Temporal Diffusion Patterns in Historic Architecture? -- Introducing the Human Factor in Predictive Modelling: a Work in Progress -- Changing Settlement Patterns in the Mediterranean Context: a Case Study of Menorca (Balearic Islands) from Prehistory to the 19th Century AD -- A New Method of Spatial Analysis Based on the Extraction of Proximity Graphs -- Bayesian Spatial Modelling of Radiocarbon Dated Archaeological Artefacts Using R-INLA -- From Space to Graphs to Understand Spatial Changes Using Medieval and Modern Fiscal Sources -- Exploring the Effects of Curvature and Refraction on GIS-based Visibility Studies -- Process Formalization and Conceptual Modelling in the Study of Territorial Dynamics -- THEORETICAL APPROACHES AND CONTEXT OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL COMPUTING -- Defining and Advocating Open Data in Archaeology -- The Evolution of Territorial Occupation: Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis. Uncertainty and Heterogeneity of Data in Archaeology -- Visualising Time with Multiple Granularities: a Generic Framework
Summary: The Conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology is the leading conference on digital archaeology, and this volume offers a comprehensive and up-to-date account of the state of the field today. It features a selection of the best papers presented at the fortieth annual conference in 2012 and explores a multitude of topics of interest to all those working in digital archaeology.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION, MULTIMEDIA, MUSEUMS -- Disciplinary Issues: Challenging the Research and Practice of Computer Applications in Archaeology -- Paperless Recording at the Sangro Valley Project -- ‘Tangible Pasts’: User-centred Design of a Mixed Reality Application for Cultural Heritage -- The Virtual Museum: a Quest for the Standard Definition -- Can you Hack (the) Communication? -- Identifying and Tracing Archaeological Material with RFID Tags -- Matera Città Narrata Project: a Multimedia and Multi-Platform Guide for Mobile Systems -- Evaluating Virtual Museums: Archeovirtual Case Study -- SIMULATING THE PAST -- Extracting Scar and Ridge Features from 3D-scanned Lithic Artifacts -- Retracing Prehistoric Population Events in Finland Using Simulation -- SteppingIn - Modern Humans Moving into Europe - Implementation -- Geospatial Virtual Heritage: A Gesture-Based 3D GIS to Engage the Public with Ancient Maya Archaeology -- Integration of 3D Laser Scanning and Virtual Reconstructions as Research and Educational Tools for Representing the Past. The Case Study of Roman Baths of Edeta -- Reconstructing the Baths of Caracalla -- Instruments and Methods for the Survey and Analysis of Amphitheatres -- Why Hunter and Gatherers did not Die More Often? Simulating Prehistoric Decision Making -- Reconstruction of Ruined Archaeological Structures Using Structural Analysis Methods -- FIELD AND LAB RECORDING -- Telling the Story of Ancient Coins by Means of Interactive RTI Images Visualization -- IBISA 3D: Image-Based Identification/Search for Archaeology Using a Three-dimensional Coin Model -- Using Image Analysis to Match a Coin to a Database -- Pompeii Revived: Scanning Mission - Insula V 1 -- A Metrology Tracking System Used as a 3D Drawing Tool for Faster Excavation Recording -- DATA MODELLING AND SHARING -- From the Slope of Enlightenment to the Plateau of Productivity: Developing Linked Data at the ADS -- Reflections on the Rocky Road to E-Archaeology -- Least-cost Networks -- Linking Roman Coins: Current Work at the American Numismatic Society -- GeoDia: or, Navigating Archaeological Time and Space in an American College Classroom -- DATA ANALYSIS, MANAGEMENT, INTEGRATION AND VISUALISATION -- Dating Historical Rock Art on Marble Surfaces by Means of a Mathematical Model for Natural Erosion Processes -- Cultural Heritage Application Schema: a SDI Framework within the Protected Sites INSPIRE Spatial Data Theme -- Old Places, New Ideas: New Routes into Canmore, the National Inventory of Scotland -- ADS easy: an Automated e-archiving System for Archaeology -- Archaeology in Broad Strokes: Collating Data for England from 1500 BC to AD 1086 -- Beyond Inspire: Towards Delivering Richer Heritage Data in Scotland -- SEAD - The Strategic Environmental Archaeology Database Inter-linking Multiproxy Environmental Data with Archaeological Investigations and Ecology -- Obscura itinera: a GIS-based Approach to Understand the pre-Roman and Roman Transhumance Pathways in Umbria and Sabina Regions (Central Italy) -- Transparency, Testing and Standards for Archaeological Predictive Modelling -- SPATIAL ANALYSIS -- Zooming Patterns Among the Scales: a Statistics Technique to Detect Spatial Patterns Among Settlements -- The Long and Winding Road: Combining Least Cost Paths and Network Analysis Techniques for Settlement Location Analysis and Predictive Modelling -- Can Infovis Tools Support the Analysis of Spatio-Temporal Diffusion Patterns in Historic Architecture? -- Introducing the Human Factor in Predictive Modelling: a Work in Progress -- Changing Settlement Patterns in the Mediterranean Context: a Case Study of Menorca (Balearic Islands) from Prehistory to the 19th Century AD -- A New Method of Spatial Analysis Based on the Extraction of Proximity Graphs -- Bayesian Spatial Modelling of Radiocarbon Dated Archaeological Artefacts Using R-INLA -- From Space to Graphs to Understand Spatial Changes Using Medieval and Modern Fiscal Sources -- Exploring the Effects of Curvature and Refraction on GIS-based Visibility Studies -- Process Formalization and Conceptual Modelling in the Study of Territorial Dynamics -- THEORETICAL APPROACHES AND CONTEXT OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL COMPUTING -- Defining and Advocating Open Data in Archaeology -- The Evolution of Territorial Occupation: Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis. Uncertainty and Heterogeneity of Data in Archaeology -- Visualising Time with Multiple Granularities: a Generic Framework

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The Conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology is the leading conference on digital archaeology, and this volume offers a comprehensive and up-to-date account of the state of the field today. It features a selection of the best papers presented at the fortieth annual conference in 2012 and explores a multitude of topics of interest to all those working in digital archaeology.

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