Caa95

Interfacing the Past: Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology

von H. Kamermans

544 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Sixty two papers presented at the CAA conference at Leiden in 1995, grouped into six main sections: Data management; Archaeometry; Statistics and Classification; Geographic Information Systems; Visualisation; Education and Publication. Papers document projects and research from all around the world. They include: a documentation project in Norway, extraction of information from ground penetrating radar surveys, Markov models for museums, simulating hunter-gatherer colonization of the Americas, satellite imagery and GIS applications in Mediterranean landscapes, a prototype for multimedia excavation reports and a survey of the development of computer applications in Romanian archaeology.