Computational and Machine Learning Tools for Archaeological Site Modeling
Computational and Machine Learning Tools for Archaeological Site Modeling

Author: Maria Elena Castiello

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-01-24

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 3030885674

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This book describes a novel machine-learning based approach to answer some traditional archaeological problems, relating to archaeological site detection and site locational preferences. Institutional data collected from six Swiss regions (Zurich, Aargau, Grisons, Vaud, Geneva and Fribourg) have been analyzed with an original conceptual framework based on the Random Forest algorithm. It is shown how the algorithm can assist in the modelling process in connection with heterogeneous, incomplete archaeological datasets and related cultural heritage information. Moreover, an in-depth review of past and more recent works of quantitative methods for archaeological predictive modelling is provided. The book guides the readers to set up their own protocol for: i) dealing with uncertain data, ii) predicting archaeological site location, iii) establishing environmental features importance, iv) and suggest a model validation procedure. It addresses both academics and professionals in archaeology and cultural heritage management, and offers a source of inspiration for future research directions in the field of digital humanities and computational archaeology.

Discourse and Argumentation in Archaeology: Conceptual and Computational Approaches
Discourse and Argumentation in Archaeology: Conceptual and Computational Approaches

Author: Cesar Gonzalez-Perez

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-11-03

Total Pages: 333

ISBN-13: 3031371569

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This book covers the topic of discourse and argumentation in archaeology with an aim to serve the archaeology community. The book presents discourse and argument analysis approaches and techniques in an affordable manner and applied to archaeological situations. It focuses on techniques and approaches that can be applicable to multiple situations, periods and cultures. The book begins with an introduction to discourse and argumentation analysis as a general field and also as an auxiliary technique to archaeology. The work includes conceptual applications, ranging from causality, ontological connections, vagueness, social production of discourse and public debates. The work also devotes a section to computational approaches and describes the specifics of some well-known families of algorithms such as lexical processing, information extraction or sentiment analysis. The conclusion comments on the future and which reflects on the previous chapters and discusses how the presented techniques and approaches should be adapted or improved for easier and more powerful application to archaeology. Contributing authors bring perspectives from archaeology, linguistics, and computer science.

Computational Intelligence in Archaeology
Computational Intelligence in Archaeology

Author: Barcelo, Juan A.

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2008-07-31

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 1599044919

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Provides analytical theories offered by innovative artificial intelligence computing methods in the archaeological domain.

Modelling Human-Environment Interactions in and beyond Prehistoric Europe
Modelling Human-Environment Interactions in and beyond Prehistoric Europe

Author: Samuel Seuru

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-07-25

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 3031343360

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This book offers insight into the relationship between prehistoric and protohistoric human populations and the world around them. It reconstructs key aspects of the palaeoenvironment – from large-scale drivers of environmental conditions, such as climate, to more regional variables such as vegetation cover and faunal communities. The volume underscores how computational archaeology is leading the way in the study of past human-environment interactions across spatial and chronological scales. With the increased availability of high-resolution climate models, agent-based modelling, palaeoecological proxies and the mature use of Geographic Information System in ecological modelling, archaeologists working in interdisciplinary settings are well-positioned to explore the intersection of human systems and environmental affordances and constraints. These methodological advancements provide a better understanding of the role humans played in past ecosystems – both in terms of their impact upon the environment and, in return, the impact of environmental conditions on human systems. They may also allow us to infer past ecological knowledge and land-use patterns that are historically contingent, rather than environmentally determined. This volume gathers contributions that combine reconstructions of past environments and archeological data with a view to exploring their complex interactions at different scales and invites scholars from varying disciplines and backgrounds to present and compare different modelling approaches.

Technológos in Being
Technológos in Being

Author: Wolfgang Ernst

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2021-05-06

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1501362283

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Wolfgang Ernst's new work, Technológos in Being, in its explicit media-scientific approach, aligns with the politics of the thinking media series to publish innovative works that advance media studies towards the 'new sciences.' Ernst's invites readers to re-adjust their ideas of Media Studies: the conviction that an extended understanding of "medium" needs to include a concept of materiality that focuses on "non- human" agencies as well. The book grounds media analysis radically in the technological apparatuses, relays, transistors, hard- and software, to precisely locate the scenes, operations and frictions where reasoning logos and 'informable' matter interfere.

Mathematics and Archaeology
Mathematics and Archaeology

Author: Juan A. Barcelo

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2015-06-08

Total Pages: 524

ISBN-13: 1482226820

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Although many archaeologists have a good understanding of the basics in computer science, statistics, geostatistics, modeling, and data mining, more literature is needed about the advanced analysis in these areas. This book aids archaeologists in learning more advanced tools and methods while also helping mathematicians, statisticians, and computer

E-Learning Methodologies and Computer Applications in Archaeology
E-Learning Methodologies and Computer Applications in Archaeology

Author: Politis, Dionysios

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2008-04-30

Total Pages: 490

ISBN-13: 1599047616

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Tools of data comparison and analysis are critical in the field of archaeology, and the integration of technological advancements such as geographic information systems, intelligent systems, and virtual reality reconstructions with the teaching of archaeology is crucial to the effective utilization of resources in the field. E-Learning Methodologies and Computer Applications in Archaeology presents innovative instructional approaches for archaeological e-learning based on networked technologies, providing researchers, scholars, and professionals a comprehensive global perspective on the resources, development, application, and implications of information communication technology in multimedia-based educational products and services in archaeology.

Archaeology from Space
Archaeology from Space

Author: Sarah Parcak

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 2019-07-09

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 1250198291

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Winner of Archaeological Institute of America's Felicia A. Holton Book Award • Winner of the Phi Beta Kappa Prize for Science • An Amazon Best Science Book of 2019 • A Science Friday Best Science Book of 2019 • A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2019 • A Science News Best Book of 2019 • Nature's Top Ten Books of 2019 "A crash course in the amazing new science of space archaeology that only Sarah Parcak can give. This book will awaken the explorer in all of us." ?Chris Anderson, Head of TED National Geographic Explorer and TED Prize-winner Dr. Sarah Parcak gives readers a personal tour of the evolution, major discoveries, and future potential of the young field of satellite archaeology. From surprise advancements after the declassification of spy photography, to a new map of the mythical Egyptian city of Tanis, she shares her field’s biggest discoveries, revealing why space archaeology is not only exciting, but urgently essential to the preservation of the world’s ancient treasures. Parcak has worked in twelve countries and four continents, using multispectral and high-resolution satellite imagery to identify thousands of previously unknown settlements, roads, fortresses, palaces, tombs, and even potential pyramids. From there, her stories take us back in time and across borders, into the day-to-day lives of ancient humans whose traits and genes we share. And she shows us that if we heed the lessons of the past, we can shape a vibrant future. Includes Illustrations

New Global Perspectives on Archaeological Prospection
New Global Perspectives on Archaeological Prospection

Author: James Bonsall

Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

Published: 2019-09-02

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 1789693071

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This volume presents over 90 papers from the 13th International Conference on Archaeological Prospection 2019, Sligo. Papers address archaeological prospection techniques, methodologies and case studies from 33 countries across Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe and North America, reflecting current and global trends in archaeological prospection.

Big Data and Archaeology
Big Data and Archaeology

Author: François Djindjian

Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

Published: 2021-08-05

Total Pages: 106

ISBN-13: 1789697220

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The advent of Big Data is a recent and debated issue in Digital Archaeology. Papers consider the historiographic context and current developments, as well as comprehensive examples of a multidisciplinary and integrative approach to the recording, management and exploitation of excavation data and documents produced over a long period of research.