Digital Archaeology

Thomas L. Evans is Head of Geomatics for Oxford Archaeology and a Research Associate at the University of Oxford’s Institute of Archaeology. Patrick Daly is currently a British Academy Reckitt Travelling Fellow in Archaeology based at the McDonald Institute of Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge.

• PART I Where we’ve been and where we are going Introduction: archaeological theory and digital pasts 1 Digital archaeology: a historical context PART II Data collection 2 Archaeological survey in a digital world 3 Drowning in data? Digital data in a British contracting unit PART III Quantification made easy 4 You, me and IT: the application of simple quantitative techniques in the examination of gender, identity and social reproduction in the Early to Middle Iron Age of northeastern France PART IV Modelling the past 5 Jouma’s tent: Bedouin and digital archaeology 6 Digital archaeology and the scalar structure of pastoral landscapes: modeling mobile societies of prehistoric Central Asia 7 What you see is what you get? Visualscapes, visual genesis and hierarchy PART V Virtual worlds 8 ‘Digital gardening’: an approach to simulating elements of palaeovegetation and some implications for the interpretation of prehistoric sites and landscapes 9 At the edges of the lens: photography, graphical constructions and cinematography PART VI Disseminating the data 190 10 Electronic publication in archaeology 11 Computers, learning and teaching in archaeology: life past and present on the screen 12 What’s another word for thesaurus? Data standards and classifying the Past PART VII Conclusion