Directory of Archaeological Computing Resources

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Covers all uses and potential uses of computers in archaeology.

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• Organizations
• Research Centers
• Software

Resources in This Category

• Archaeobotanical Computer Database

  http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue1/tomlinson_toc.html
  A review of the archaeological evidence for food plants from the British Isles: an example of the use of the Archaeobotanical Computer Database (ABCD) by Philippa Tomlinson and Allan R. Hall.

• Archaeological Data Archive Project

  http://csanet.org/archive/adap/
  Web documents with archaeological data that may be viewed online and files that may be downloaded from the CSA server for inspection on users' machines with the aid of their own software.

• Archeologia e Calcolatori

  http://soi.cnr.it/archcalc/Bibliografia_new.htm
  Archeologia e Calcolatori is an international journal established in 1990 and edited by the Italian National Research Council. It focuses on methodological and technical aspects of computer applications to archaeology.

• CAD Guide for Archaeology and Architectural History

  http://csanet.org/inftech/cadgd/cadgd.html
  From the Center for the Study of Architecture.

• Computer Applications in Archaeology

  http://www.u.arizona.edu/~mlittler/
  Directory of links to GIS, virtual reality, graphics and simulation, database, and on-line publishing in archaeology.

• Computing in Archaeology

  http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/nsr/arch/
  Nick Ryan explains how to create computer reconstructions of ancient buildings, and discusses mobile computing applications in archaeological fieldwork.

• Constructing the Giza Plateau Computer Model

  http://oi.uchicago.edu/research/projects/giz/comp_model.html
  Article which details the efforts to construct a computer model of the Giza Plateau and its architectural components from published maps, survey, and excavation reports.

• Cultural Resources GIS Facility: National Park Service

  http://www.nps.gov/hdp/crgis/index.htm
  Contains links relevant to applying GPS to historic preservation and architectural surveys.

• Human Migration Tracked In Stanford Computer Simulation

  http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/01/040122082842.htm
  From ScienceDaily, Early humans migrating from Africa carried small genetic differences like so much flotsam in an ocean current. Now researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have devised a model for pinpointing where mutations first appeared, providing a new way to trace the migratory path of our earliest ancestors.

• IOSA - Internet and Open Source in Archaeology

  http://www.iosa.it/
  Promotes the use of open source software and open stardards in archaeological computing.

• Modelling of Structure in the Archaeology of Buildings

  http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue2/daniels_toc.html
  Internet Archaeology article "The need for the solid modelling of structure in the archaeology of buildings" by Robert Daniels.

• National Center for Documentation of Cultural and Natural Heritage

  http://www.cultnat.org/
  Egypt's new archaeological database project. Includes archaeological map of Egypt.

• Online Archaeology

  http://www.online-archaeology.co.uk/
  Portal and forum for the use of computers to collect, store, analyze and interpret archaeological and heritage data.

• Presenting Archaeological Information with Java Applets

  http://frippery.org/acn/paper.html
  A paper by R.M. Yorston, published in Archaeological Computing Newsletter 48.

• SIDGEIPA: An Archaeological Information System

  http://www.uv.es/~amapa/angles/viena.htm
  Presentation of an archaeological information system whose main features are Harris Matrix automization, 3D reconstructions, and database management of stratigraphical units, artifacts, and radiocarbon dates.

• Stratify

  http://www.stratify.org/
  Free Harris matrix analysis software.

• Sustaining the Research Agenda: Enhancing the Digital Resource

  http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/project/workshop/research03.html
  Sponsored by the Archaeology Data Service at the University of York on Wednesday 29 January 2003.

• The Corinth Computer Project

  http://corinth.sas.upenn.edu/
  Project whose goal is to generate a computerized architectural and topographical survey of the Roman colony of Corinth. includes a Quicktime panorama, city plan, and project methodology and bibliography.

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