On the Theory and Practice of Archaeological Computing

. Ed(s): Lock, Gary; Brown, Kayt

ISBN 10: 0947816518 / ISBN 13: 9780947816513

Published by Oxford University School of Archaeology, 2000

About this Item

A collection of papers based on a session held at the 4th World Archaeological Congress in Cape Town in 1999. The aim is to assess the impact of IT on both the theory and practice of archaeology today. Editor(s): Lock, Gary; Brown, Kayt. Num Pages: 154 pages, (A Tschan & P Daly). 154p, b/w illus, tbs. BIC Classification: HDA; HDW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 170. . . 2000. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: On the Theory and Practice of Archaeological Computing
• Publisher: Oxford University School of Archaeology
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0947816518
• ISBN 13: 9780947816513
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

About this title

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'?

About the Author

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).