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Low-Cost Digital Tools for Archaeology [PDF]

, 2019
Modern technology offers elaborated and efficient instruments capable of performing extremely accurate surveys of architectural and archaeological remains. However, not all of them can be used everywhere: archaeological missions might be constrained by logistics, environmental and, especially, financial restrictions.
luca perfetti, francesco fassi, corinna rossi   +2 more
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Sport, Agency and Pigeon Snaring in the Ancient Tongan Chiefdom

Archaeology in Oceania, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Pigeon snaring was an élite sport in the traditional Tongan chiefdom, undertaken on purpose‐built mounds known as sia heu lupe. LiDAR imagery combined with field survey and mound documentation on the island of Tongatapu has identified a comprehensive corpus of these sites.
David V. Burley, Shane Egan, Wendy Pond, Peter Locher   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Building archaeology geodatabase in Iraq using GIS

MATEC Web of Conferences, 2018
Geomatics has been an important tool in archaeology. The combination of Geomatics and archaeology adopters have been considered a perfect match, since archaeology often involves the study of the spatial dimension of human behavior over time, and all ...
Kalaf Abbas, Al Sharaa Hisham, Hatem Israa, Mohammed Hussein   +3 more
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Digital mapping for archaeological heritage

SCIRES-IT - SCIentific RESearch and Information Technology, 2016
This essay intends to show the results of a research about Phlegraean Fields, a large zone which extends to the west of the city of Naples, very important from an historical, archaeological and landscape point of view. Surveying and representation methods have been experimented which can read and effectively represent the complexity of areas ...
CATUOGNO, RAFFAELE, DI LUGGO, ANTONELLA
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Birmingham Archaeology (BUFAU) Digital Archives

, 2016
Birmingham Archaeology was originally set up as the Birmingham University Field Archaeology Unit (BUFAU) in the 1970s. BUFAU/BA was in operation from 1976 - 2012, and from 1991-2012 as a fully commercial unit, latterly in conjunction with VISTA and BA(e)
University of Birmingham
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Late Holocene Occupation and Resource Use in the Sub‐Coastal Moreton Region: The Open‐Air Howard Creek Site, Southeast Queensland

Archaeology in Oceania, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper reports archaeological investigations at the Howard Creek site, a Late Holocene open‐air site in the sub‐coastal Moreton region of southeast Queensland. The site adds to a regional record based largely on rockshelter excavations. Development‐led salvage investigations included excavation, radiocarbon dating, lithic analysis, and use‐
Irina A. Ponomareva, Cate Cunningham, Birgitta Stephenson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Digital Archaeological Ethics: Successes and Failures in Disciplinary Attention

Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology, 2020
The assumption that archaeologists will behave ethically in fieldwork, analysis, and publication relies on a further assumption, that they have been taught what ethics mean in those contexts.
L. Meghan Dennis
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Leveraging Big Multitemporal Multisource Satellite Data and Artificial Intelligence for the Detection of Complex and Invisible Features: The Case of Extensive Irrigation Mapping

Archaeological Prospection, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The detection of buried or obscured archaeological features remains a central challenge in landscape archaeology, particularly in the irrigated floodplains of Mesopotamia where levees and canals formed the basis of complex agrarian systems. This study presents a deep learning–based approach for the large‐scale, automated detection of ancient ...
Nazarij Buławka, Hector A. Orengo, Felipe Lumbreras Ruiz, Iban Berganzo‐Besga, Ekta Gupta   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Changing Theory and Practice? CAA and Archaeology’s Digital Turn

Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology
Over the past sixty years, digital archaeology has become a major research area equipped with its own international conferences and journals. During that period, the practical uses of computer techniques and technologies and the computations that can be ...
Jeremy Huggett
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Digital media in public archaeology [PDF]

, 2017
The twenty years following the mid-1990s witnessed a step change in the communication landscape, which can be summarised under the label of new digital media. In this period, the popularity of the Internet and mobile technologies has become more widespread, and previously distinct media forms have been progressively converging into fewer and ‘newer ...
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