On the Theory and Practice of Archaeological Computing - Softcover

Lock, Gary; Brown, Kayt

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0947816518 ISBN 13: 9780947816513

Publisher: Oxford University School of Archaeology, 2000

Synopsis

These nine papers, based on the 4th World Archaeological Congress held in South Africa in 1999, take a critical view of computer usage in archaeology and study its impact on the discipline and especially in terms of archaeological method and theory. Contents: Introduction (Gark Lock & Kayt Brown) ; Computers and archaeological cultural change (J Huggett) ; Archaeological computing and disciplinary theory (J Gidlow) ; Mathematics and computers (H Forsyth) ; Virtual reality (G Goodrick & M Gillings) ; Archaeological archives for the 21st century (F Grew) ; Intellectual excavation (A Beck) ; English sites and monuments records (B Robinson) ; Can computers help aerial survey? (R Palmer) ; Is there such a thing as `Computer Archaeology'?

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Review:

This is a book that should be on all course reading lists. It is a valuable addition to the literature on the effects of the ICT revolution on archaeology. --Internet Archaeology

From the Publisher:

Gary Lock is Emeritus Professor of Archaeology at the University of Oxford. His research interests include computer applications and quantitative methods in archaeology especially Geographical Information Systems, their application and theoretical aspects (current interests are modelling visibility and movement).

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University School of Archaeology
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0947816518
• ISBN 13: 9780947816513
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 154