Archaeology in the digital era : papers from the 40th Annual Conference of Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA), Southampton, 26-29 March 2012 / edited by Graeme Earl [and six others].

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Earl, Graeme, editor.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Conference Name:

Conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (40th : 2012 : University of Southampton)

Series:

Computer applications and quantitative methods in archaeology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Archaeology--Data processing--Congresses.

Archaeology.

Archaeology--Data processing.

Archaeology--Methodology--Congresses.

Archaeology--Methodology.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

481 pages : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2013]

Summary:

CAA is the foremost conference on digital archaeology, and this volume offers a comprehensive and up-to date reference to the state of the art. This volume contains a selection of the best papers presented at the 40th Annual Conference of Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA), held in Southampton from 26 to 29 March 2012. The papers, all written and peer-reviewed by experts in the field of digital archaeology, explore a multitude of topics to showcase ground-breaking technologies and best practice from various archaeological and informatics disciplines, with a variety of case studies from all over the world.

Contents:

Disciplinary issues : challenging the research and practice of computer applications in archaeology / Jeremy Huggett

Paperless recording at the Sangro Valley Project / Christopher F. Motz and Sam C. Carrier

'Tangible pasts' : user-centred design of a mixed reality application for cultural heritage / Angeliki Chrysanthi, Constantinos Papadopoulos, Tom Frankland and Graeme Earl

The virtual museum : a quest for the standard definition / Laia Pujol and Anna Lorente

Can you hack (the) communication? / Hugh Corley

Identifying and tracing archaeological material with RFID tags / Ana María López, Ana María Salinas, Eduardo Pascual, Guillermo Ignacio Azuara, Gloria Fernández, Elena Gallego and Francisco Burillo

Matera Città Narrata project : a multimedia and multi-platform guide for mobile systems / Eva Pietroni

Evaluating virtual museums : Archeovirtual case study / Sofia Pescarin, Alfonsina Pagano, Mattias Wallergård, Wim Hupperetz and Christie Ray

Extracting scar and ridge features from 3D-scanned lithic artifacts / Eitan Richardson, Leore Grosman, Uzy Smilansky and Michael Werman

Retracing prehistoric population events in Finland using simulation / Tarja Sundell, Juhana Kammonen, Martin Heger, Jukka U. Palo and Päivi Onkamo

SteppingIn - modern humans moving into Europe - implementation / Fulco Scherjon

Geospatial virtual heritage : a gesture-based 3D GIS to engage the public with ancient Maya archaeology / Heather Richards-Rissetto, Jim Robertsson, Jennifer von Schwerin, Giorgio Agugiaro, Fabio Remondino and Gabrio Girardi

Integration of 3D laser scanning and virtual reconstructions as research and educational tools for representing the past. The case study of Roman baths of Edeta / Vito Porcelli, Fernando Cotino Villa, Josep Blasco i Senabre, Vicent Escrivá Torres and Julian Esteban Chapapría

Reconstructing the Baths of Caracalla / Taylor A. Oetelaar

Instruments and methods for the survey and analysis of amphitheatres / Martina Ballarin, Francesco Guerra and Luigi Sperti

Why hunter and gatherers did not die more often? : simulating prehistoric decision making / Florencia Del Castillo and Juan A. Barceló

Reconstruction of ruined archaeological structures using structural analysis methods / James Miles, Aykut Erkal, Dina D'Ayala, Simon Keay and Graeme Earl

Telling the story of ancient coins by means of interactive RTI images visualization / Gianpaolo Palma, Eliana Siotto, Marc Proesmans, Monica Baldassari, Clara Baracchini, Sabrina Batino and Roberto Scopigno

IBISA 3D : image-based identification/search for archaeology using a three-dimensional coin model / Sylvain Marchand

Using image analysis to match a coin to a database / Sebastian Zambanini and Martin Kampel

Pompeii revived : scanning mission - Insula V 1 / Nicolò Dell'Unto, Matteo Dellepiane, Marco Callieri, Anne-Marie Leander, Stefan Lindgren and Carolina Larsson

A metrology tracking system used as a 3D drawing tool for faster excavation recording / Maarten Smeets, Wouter Yperman and Geoff Avern

From the slope of enlightenment to the plateau of productivity : developing linked data at the ADS / Michael Charno, Stuart Jeffrey, Ceri Binding, Doug Tudhope and Keith May

Reflections on the rocky road to e-archaeology / Geoff Carver and Matthias Lang

Least-cost networks / lrmela Herzog

Linking Roman coins : current work at the American Numismatic Society / Ethan Gruber, Gilles Bransbourg and Sebastian Heath and Andrew Meadows

GeoDia : or, Navigating archaeological time and space in an American college classroom / Adam Rabinowitz

Dating historical rock art on marble surfaces by means of a mathematical model for natural erosion processes / Paolo Emilio Bagnoli

Cultural Heritage Application Schema : a SDI framework within the protected sites INSPIRE spatial data theme / Antonio Uriarte González, César Parcero Oubiña, Alfonso Fraguas Bravo, Pastor Fábrega Álvarez, Juan Manuel Vicent García, Esther Pérez Asensio, Carlos Fernández Freire and Isabel del Bosque González

Old places, new ideas : new routes into Canmore, the National Inventory of Scotland / Susan Hamilton, Rebecca Jones and Peter McKeague

ADS easy : an automated e-archiving system for archaeology / Ray Moore, Catherine Hardman, Julian Richards and Lei Xia

Archaeology in broad strokes : collating data for England from 1500 BC to AD 1086 / Chris Green

Beyond Inspire : towards delivering richer heritage data in Scotland / Peter McKeague and Mike Middleton

SEAD - The Strategic Environmental Archaeology Database inter-linking multiproxy environmental data with archaeological investigations and ecology / Philip lain Buckland

Obscura itinera : a GIS-based approach to understand the pre-Roman and Roman transhumance pathways in Umbria and Sabina regions (central Italy) / Paolo Camerieri and Tommaso Mattioli

Transparency, testing and standards for archaeological predictive modelling / William Wilcox

Zooming patterns among the scales : a statistics technique to detect spatial patterns among settlements / Alessio Palmisano

The long and winding road : combining least cost paths and network analysis techniques for settlement location analysis and predictive modelling / Philip Verhagen, Tom Brughmans, Laure Nuninger and Frédérique Bertoncello

Can infovis tools support the analysis of spatio-temporal diffusion patterns in historic architecture? / Jean-Yves Blaise and Iwona Dudek

Introducing the human factor in predictive modelling : a work in progress / Philip Verhagen, Laure Nuninger, François-Pierre Tourneux, Frédérique Bertoncello and Karen Jeneson

Changing settlement patterns in the Mediterranean context : a case study of Menorca (Balearic Islands) from prehistory to the 19th century AD / Monica De Cet, Rainer Duttmann, Simón Gornés, Joana Gual, Johannes Müller, Roberto Risch, Elena Sintes and Bianca Willié

A new method of spatial analysis based on the extraction of proximity graphs / Diego Jiménez-Badillo

Bayesian spatial modelling of radiocarbon dated archaeological artefacts using R-INLA / Juhana Kammonen, Tarja Sundell, Petro Pesonen, Markku Oinonen and Päivi Onkamo

From space to graphs to understand spatial changes using medieval and modern fiscal sources / Xavier Rodier, Mélanie Le Couédic, Florent Hautefeuille, Samuel Leturcq, Bertrand Jouve and Etienne Fieux

Exploring the effects of curvature and refraction on GIS-based visibility studies / Mariza Kormann and Gary Lock

Process formalization and conceptual modelling in the study of territorial dynamics / Laure Saligny, Xavier Rodier, Estelle Gauthier, Nicolas Poirier, Murielle Georges Leroy, Frédérique Bertoncello and Olivier Weller

Defining and advocating open data in archaeology / Stefano Costa, Anthony Beck, Andrew Bevan and Jessica Ogden

The evolution of territorial occupation : exploratory spatial data analysis. Uncertainty and heterogeneity of data in archaeology / Lucile Pillot and Laure Saligny

Visualising time with multiple granularities : a generic framework / Iwona Dudek and Jean-Yves Blaise.

Notes:

"A selection of the peer-reviewed papers presented at the Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology 2012 conference hosted by the Archaeological Computing Research Group at the University of Southampton, UK between 26th and 30th March 2012.... A total of 380 papers and posters werre presented, and two key note addresses"--Foreword.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9789089646637

9089646639

OCLC:

875150930

Publisher Number:

99967102876