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Author: J. D. Richards
Publisher: CUP Archive
Published: 1985-05-02
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780521257695
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book aims to give archaeologists a non-technical but thorough grounding in the use of computers.
Author: Patricia Martin-Rodilla
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2017-10-14
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 3319691880
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book focuses on innovative strategies to manage and build software systems for generating new knowledge from large archaeological data sets The book also reports on two case studies carried out in real-world scenarios within the Cultural Heritage setting. The book presents an original conceptual framework for developing software solutions to assist the knowledge generation process in connection with large archaeological data sets and related cultural heritage information— a context in which the inputs are mainly textual sources written in freestyle, i.e. without a predetermined, standard structure. Following an in-depth exploration of recent works on the knowledge generation process in the above-mentioned context and IT-based options for facilitating it, the book proposes specific new techniques capable of capturing the structure and semantics implicit in such textual sources, and argues for using this information in the knowledge generation process. The main result is the development of a conceptual framework that can accommodate textual sources and integrate the information included in them into a software engineering framework. The said framework is meant to assist cultural heritage professionals in general, and archaeologists in particular, in both knowledge extraction and the subsequent decision-making process.
Author: François Djindjian
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Published: 2021-08-05
Total Pages: 106
ISBN-13: 1789697220
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Author: Sylvia W. Gaines
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Published: 1981
Total Pages: 170
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: J. E. Doran
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 406
ISBN-13: 9780674554559
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is for students and practitioners of archaeology. It offers an introductory survey of all the applications of mathematical and statistical techniques to their work. These applications are increasingly concerned with computerized data classification and quantification, and their effect is to reduce the level of uncertainty in the interpretation of the evidence that time and chance have left. Any archaeologist wanting to find out what these new methods have to offer has hitherto been forced to search for information in the specialist handbooks, conference proceedings, and review articles of his own, and very often of other, disciplines. This book brings the information conveniently together, so far as it pertains to archaeology, and permits an assessment of its relevance and quality. Those who have been daunted by the specialist knowledge apparently demanded will now be able to acquire a thorough grasp of principles and practices. Only an elementary knowledge of mathematics is presumed throughout. Part 1 provides a brief introduction to basic concepts in archaeology and mathematics. Part 2 relates the standard archaeological techniques and procedures to mathematics; it concentrates on numerical approaches best suited to archaeological practices. Part 3 examines various automatic seriation techniques and discusses further work that is coming to play an essential part in the development of archaeology.
Author: Noriko Seguchi
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: 2019-06-14
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 0128155469
DOWNLOAD EBOOK3D Data Acquisition for Bioarchaeology, Forensic Anthropology, and Archaeology serves as a handbook for the collection and processing of 3-D scanned data and as a tool for scholars interested in pursuing research projects with 3-D models. The book's chapters enhance the reader’s understanding of the technology by covering virtual model processing protocols, alignment methods, actual data acquisition techniques, basic technological protocols, and considerations of variation in research design associated with biological anthropology and archaeology. Thoroughly guides the reader through the “how-to on different stages of 3D-data-related research Provides statistical analysis options for 3D image data Covers protocols, methods and techniques as associated with biological anthropology and archaeology
Author: Shannon P. McPherron
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 276
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Author: James Patton Jones
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2006-02
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13: 1411639286
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a second edition of the author's Bachalor's Degree thesis, the re-publication of which was prompted by the realization that the original version had been downloaded from the author's website over 700 times in the past ten years. The purpose of this second edition is to include new, updated information on the described archaeological data management project, as well as to provide project status after ten years of use by hundreds of students at Santa Clara University.
Author: Jens Andresen
Publisher: Aarhus Universitetsforlag
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 482
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA study illustrating the use of computer applications and quantitative methods in archaeology.
Author: Marieka Brouwer Burg
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-05-18
Total Pages: 189
ISBN-13: 3319278339
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume deals with the pressing issue of uncertainty in archaeological modeling. Detecting where and when uncertainty is introduced to the modeling process is critical, as are strategies for minimizing, reconciling, or accommodating such uncertainty. Included chapters provide unique perspectives on uncertainty in archaeological modeling, ranging in both theoretical and methodological orientation. The strengths and weaknesses of various identification and mitigation techniques are discussed, in particular sensitivity analysis. The chapters demonstrate that for archaeological modeling purposes, there is no quick fix for uncertainty; indeed, each archaeological model requires intensive consideration of uncertainty and specific applications for calibration and validation. As very few such techniques have been problematized in a systematic manner or published in the archaeological literature, this volume aims to provide guidance and direction to other modelers in the field by distilling some basic principles for model testing derived from insight gathered in the case studies presented. Additionally, model applications and their attendant uncertainties are presented from distinct spatio-temporal contexts and will appeal to a broad range of archaeological modelers. This volume will also be of interest to non-modeling archaeologists, as consideration of uncertainty when interpreting the archaeological record is also a vital concern for the development of non-formal (or implicit) models of human behavior in the past.
