Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
archaeology
• Post-Processual Archaeology
• Birth of “Buildings
Archaeology” 1993 (Morriss 2000)
• Dendrochronolgy
• Social and economic variables
• Wider implications/subjects
• Diffusionism
• C Dyer, M Johnson, T James, E
Roberts and S Pearson
NOW
• Cognitive Archaeology
• Understanding the “why?”
• Digital Archaeology
• Mobile Archaeology / Geophysics
• Holistic approach
• Immersive Virtual technologies
• Solid Dendrochronolgies
• Media driven - Time Team, etc
• M Johnson, C Dyer, D Miles, R
Morriss and R Samson
Whittlewood Project
• Prof C Dyer
• 2000-05
• 100km² Communal landscape
management study
• Holistic approach
• Public involvement
• No chronological boundaries
• Full digital archive
• http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/archive/whittlewood_ahrb_2006/
History of computing and
archaeological theory
Date Archaeolo Types of Computing Subjects
gical theories machines – of use
School and hardware
problems and
Pre- 1930 Natural Descriptive software
Calculating Statistical analysis
observation machines
1930-65 Cultural history Temporal and Mainframes, Statistical
geographic Fortran, Cobol analysis, data
gapsmanship as storage and
well as manipulation
reconstructive
1965-80 Processual Systematic, Mini’s Vaxs, PC, Causation,
hypothetical, Pascal, C, Basic modelling,
nomethetic , simulation, GIS
behavioural,
group oriented
1980-95 Post-processual Individual, PCs, C++, Prolog Expert systems,
interpretive non-causative, AI,
field use, GIS
1990- Cognitive Individual, Workstations, PCs, AI, GIS, individual
experimental and parallel modelling,
hypothetical, processing, visualisation,
reconstructive supercomputing, webography
visual basic,
numerous
specialised
languages (Zubrow
Cognitive Archaeology
www.esri.com
Autodesk-AutoCAD
Autodesk – 3d Studio Max
Autodesk – 3d Studio Max
Buildings Archaeology
12th C Lap-joint
Buildings Archaeology
13th C Lap-joint
Buildings Archaeology
www.digislide.com.au
Digital Archaeology in the
Media
Virtual tours
http://www.digital-archaeology.com/
Digital Archaeology in the
Media
Key texts
• Daly, P. & Evans, T. (eds.), (2006). Digital Archaeology:
Bridging Method and Theory, London: Routledge.
• Dibble, H. & McPherron, S., 2002. Using Computers in
Archaeology: A Practical Guide, USA: McGraw-Hill.
• Gerrard, C., 2003. Medieval Archaeology: Understanding
Traditions and Contemporary Approaches, London: Routledge.
• Earl, G. & Goodrick, G., 2004. A manufactured past: virtual
reality in archaeology.
http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue15/2/toc.html. (April 2005)
• Johnson, M., 1999. Archaeological Theory: An Introduction,
London: Blackwell.
• Renfrew, C. & Bahn, P., 2000. Archaeology: Theories Methods
and Practice, London: Thames & Hudson.
• Zubrow, E., (2006). Digital Archaeology: A Historical Context,
in Digital Archaeology: Bridging Method and Theory, eds. P.
Daly & T. Evans London: Routledge, 10-31.
Contact
• Richard.Haddlesey@...
• www.medievalarchitecture.net