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Amiens Cathedral
A Multimedia Project for the Columbia University Core Curriculum.
Antiquity-Special review
section-Electronic archaeology
Electronic archaeology centres on the Internet (text files, email, file transfer and
Telnet) and its hypertext- and graphics-capable arm, the World Wide Web; it also includes
CD-ROM and its successors, and electronic archives. In not too many pages, this Special
sketches what there is and what it means.
Archaeological Data Service
The aim of the Archaeology Data Service (ADS) is to collect, describe, catalogue,
preserve, and provide user support for digital resources that are created as a product of
archaeological research. The ADS also has a responsibility for promoting standards and
guidelines for best practice in the creation, description, preservation and use of spatial
information across the AHDS as a whole. For those classes of archaeological data where
there are existing archival bodies the role of the ADS will be to collaborate with the
appropriate national and local agencies to promote greater use of existing services.
Archaeology Data Service
Archaeological Computing Methodology
This page provides you with pointers to existing literature about computing methods in
archaeology.
Archaeological Park, Xanten
The CAD-model of Colonia Ulpia Traiana has been created with the CAD-system ALLPLAN of
Nemetschek Programmsystem GmbH in a students seminar 'Unsichtbares sichtbar machen -
Rekonstruktion einer antiken Stadt mit CAD'. In addition to the usual hyperlinks the model
makes extensive use of 'clickable maps'. Clicking onto an object (e.g. the amphitheatre)
in one of the framed images moves into the next layer of detail of our model.
ArchNet: Archaeological Software
Barrow
placement in the Stonehenge area
The ritual landscape around Stonehenge embraces one of the largest data sets within
prehistoric Britain, and despite the intensity of fieldwork within the area it is also one
of the least interrogated. This paper presents a study of the monuments within the
Stonehenge area using a variety of computer-based analyses and visualisation techniques.
The Bonn
Archaeological Software Package - (BASP)
The Bonn Archaeological Software Package (BASP) is a non-commercial, non-profit software
project for and by archaeologists which has been developed cooperatively since 1973. It
now includes more than 60 functions for seriation, clustering, correspondance analysis,
and other tools for archaeologists working with IBM compatible PC's under DOS and Windows.
CAA++
Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology
CADalog -
CAD Catalogue
The CADalog Web Site is a Huge collection of 2803 AutoCAD Related Files! All are freely
distributable Public Domain, Freeware, Shareware, Demo Code, Source Code, Utilities,
Applications, etc. for the AutoCAD professional.
Computer
Aided Design in Archaeology
This page provides links of use to archaeologists working with CAD packages.
Computer
Applications in Archaeology
This site is meant to serve as a source of archaeology computer resources on the Web.
Computing in Archaeology – Software and Software Related Resources
GIS and
Remote Sensing for Archaeology: Burgundy, France
Applications of GIS and remote sensing in archaeology.
GIS and Roman settlement patterns in Spain
GISARCH
This discussion list is intended to facilitate discussion between archaeologists making
use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology.
Giza
Plateau Computer Model
The Oriental Institute established a Computer Laboratory in July, 1990, to facilitate and
encourage the use of computer technology by the faculty and staff in their analysis of the
ancient Near East. The Laboratory provides faculty and staff with technical assistance in
the selection, development, and operation of specific computer applications, including
word processing, database management, and graphics. Additionally, the Laboratory contains
some technologically advanced equipment. This equipment allows the computer laboratory
staff to work closely with Oriental Institute archaeological expeditions to produce
sophisticated computer models and graphic images of their sites.
gnet
gnet is a general purpose editor/browser for directed graphs. One of its main uses is as a
tool for visualising archaeological stratigraphy, but it is equally suited to a wide range
of other applications.
GPS Base Station -
Archaeological Computing Laboratory
The Archaeological Computing Laboratory (ACL) maintains a 12 channel Trimble Community
Base Station situated at Sydney University. The base station is linked to the ACL file
server, where recent correction data is stored and made available through ftp.
Graphical analysis of
regional archaeological data
The use of site typology to explore the Dutch Neolithization process.
The
IDRISI Project
Founded in 1987 by Geography Professor Ron Eastman, the IDRISI Project is a not-for-profit
project within the Graduate School of Geography at Clark University. The mandate of the
Project is to further the development and understanding of computer-assisted geographic
analysis. The raster-based geographic analysis packages IDRISI and IDRISI for Windows are
developed, distributed and supported by the Project. To date, there are over 20,000
registered users of IDRISI software in over 130 countries, making it the most widely used
raster GIS in the world.
INSITE - Computer based reconstructions of archaeological sites
Integrated Archaeological Database System
The concept of a computerised Integrated Archaeological Database System, IADB for short,
was formulated over five years ago. The project was initiated by Stephen Stead and has
been developed by Michael Rains with archaeological support from Peter Clark and Richard
Sermon.
The interactive Virtual Reality model
of Stonehenge
Virtual reality worlds let you visit places you might never see in person. The stones of
Stonehenge are roped off to the public but Virtual Stonehenge lets you wander among them
on your PC. Explore on your own or take a guided tour through time to see the past,
present and future of this historic landmark. Virtual Stonehenge features special effects
such as detailed textures, dynamic lighting, and fog that benefit from the power of a
PentiumŪ II processor. You can run the model on an older system, but you'll experience
lower levels of detail and slower frame rates which will make your experience less
lifelike.
Internet Archaeology - Papers:
Sensuous and reflexive GIS: exploring visualisation and VRML
Philippa Tomlinson and Allan R. Hall A review of the archaeological evidence for food plants from the British Isles: an example of the use of the Archaeobotanical Computer Database (ABCD)
James Lyall and Dominic Powlesland The application of high resolution fluxgate gradiometery as an aid to excavation planning and strategy formulation
Robert Daniels The need for the solid modelling of structure in the archaeology of buildings
Alicia Wise and Paul MillerWhy metadata matters in archaeology
Alan Vince, Julian Richards, Seamus Ross and Mike HeyworthPublishing archaeology on the Web: who reads this stuff anyway?
Knowlton
Henge Complex
Over the past three years Bournemouth University has carried out a programme of field
survey and excavation at Knowlton Circles in North Dorset. The purpose of this web page is
to provide an introduction to the monument complex at Knowlton, and to provide an outline
of the results so far obtained. All data and interpretations within this web page are
interim comments prior to full analysis and publication. The graphics used are intended
only to give an impression of the range of findings and are not in all cases fully
processed.
Occasional Paper
No. 41 of the ACLS
Computing and the Humanities: Summary of a Roundtable Meeting
Presenting Archaeological Information with Java Applets
Remote Sensing Sites
The University of Sydney Archaeological Computing Laboratory jumpsite to Remote Sensing
websites around the World.
Satellite
Remote Sensing and Archaeology
This site aims to provide a focus for information relating to the application of satellite
imagery to archaeology.
Southampton Archaeology - MSc in Archaeological Computing Sylabus
Stapely
Hill
Stapeley Hill is a small Bronze Age ring cairn situated close to the Welsh border near
Shrewsbury. In addition to the cairn, the site has associated field clearance walls and a
fairly prominent ridge and furrow field system. Topographical surveying has been carried
out on the site previously, and it was decided that this would form the basis of a
comparitive study of different geophysical surveying techniques on a single site.
Teaching
Archaeological Geophysical Survey
An example Macromedia Authorware 3.5 Shockwave application.
TLTP
Archaeology
The TLTP Archaeology Consortium is a UK government financed project which aims to improve
the efficiency and quality of archaeology teaching by encouraging the use of new
technologies. In order to do this the Consortium has been involved in the production of a
wide variety of high quality multimedia software for archaeology undergraduates.
University of Sydney,
Archaeological Computing Laboratory
A computing laboratory which is freely available to all Archaeology staff and students for
everything from wordprocessing to statistical or GIS analysis. The Archaeological
Computing Laboratory (ACL) is the best equipped computing facility for Archaeology in
Australia.
Visualisation
of Landscapes Project
The Visualisation of Landscapes project is a University funded teaching initiative within
the Archaeology Department, in conjunction with the Departments of Computer Science and
Geography. The project is an inter-disciplinary exercise into the interpretation of
archaeological data with the aid of computer technology, in order to visualise landscapes.
The eventual results will be packaged so that they can be used primarily in first and
second year undergraduate teaching and in the Landscape Archaeology MA.
VRML and Archaeology
Virtual Reality Modeling Language and Archaeology VRML offers a new way of presenting
three dimensional objects and has tremendous potential for archaeological material. Sites
can be shown in the context of their landscapes. Complex structures can be more readily
understood when presented as models which can be manipulated and explored, an obvious
advantage when displaying standing structures and building reconstructions. Models of
artefacts are also more comprehensible than pictures.
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