On the Theory and Practice of Archaeological Computing (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780947816513)

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'?

Author: Gary Lock, Kayt Brown
ISBN-10: 0947816518
ISBN-13: 9780947816513
Publisher: Oxford University School of Archaeology
Language: English
Published: 12/01/2000
Pages: 154
Format: Paperback