Computational approaches to archaeological spaces / edited by Andrew Bevan, Mark Lake.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bevan, Andrew, 1974- author, editor.

Lake, Mark (Mark W.), author, editor.

Contributor:

ebrary, Inc.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Publications of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London

Publications of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London ; 60

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spatial analysis (Statistics) in archaeology.

Archaeology--Computer simulation.

Archaeology.

Virtual reality in archaeology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (330 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Walnut Creek, California : Left Coast Press, [2013]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This volume of original chapters written by experts in the field offers a snapshot of how historical built spaces, past cultural landscapes, and archaeological distributions are currently being explored through computational social science. It focuses on the continuing importance of spatial and spatio-temporal pattern recognition in the archaeological record, considers more wholly model-based approaches that fix ideas and build theory, and addresses those applications where situated human experience and perception are a core interest. Reflecting the changes in computational technology over the past decade, the authors bring in examples from historic and prehistoric sites in Europe, Asia, and the Americas to demonstrate the variety of applications available to the contemporary researcher. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction / Andrew Bevan and Mark Lake

Intensities, interactions and uncertainties : some new approaches to archaeological distributions / Andrew Bevan, Enrico Crema, Xiuzhen Li and Alessio Palmisano

An examination of automated archaeological feature recognition in remotely sensed imagery / Kenneth Kvamme

An introduction to integrative distance analysis / Terence Clarke

Network models and archaeological spaces / Ray Rivers, Carl Knappett, Timothy Evans

Multilevel selection and the evolution of food sharing in fragmented environments : a spatially explicit model and its implications for early Stone Age archaeology / Luke Premo

Stories of the past or science of the future? : archaeology and computational social science / Michael Barton

The potential and limits of optimal path analysis / Irmela Herzog

Compute-intensive GIS visibility analysis of the settings of prehistoric stone circles / Mark Lake and Damon Ortega

Reconsidering the concept of visualscape : recent advances in three-dimensional visibility analysis / Eleftheria Paliou

Formal and informal analysis of rendered space : the Basilica Portuense / Graeme Earl, Vito Porcelli, Constantinos Papadopoulos, Gareth Beale, Matthew Harrison, Hembo Pagi and Simon Keay

Reproducible data analysis and the open source paradigm in archaeology / Benjamin Ducke.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781611323481

1611323487

Publisher Number:

99968658254

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.