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Digital Archaeology

Digital Archaeology Research in history spans the incredible time span of 5.300 years allowing insights in many aspects of the changes and constants in culture. However, the written word might not always tell the truth nor is it available for all regions and time periods. So archaeologists investigate material remains and create insights into wide variety of topics like production techniques, trade, migration, climate change and many more.As archaeological research is related to the Humanities it organizes itself typically according to certain regions and/or time periods starting with prehistory, which is probably closest to natural science in contrast to classical archaeology having a strong bias towards art history. Having adopted mathematical and statistical methods in substantial amounts for archaeological research the path for including computer science was prepared quite early. This can be dated at least to the 1960’s introducing a New Archaeology by Lewis R. Binford and David L. Clarke as well as early works by Clive Orton and Nick Ryan. These formative years continue in the early 1970 s where a small group of archaeologists and mathematicians founded the Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA) group. It organized its first annual conference in 1973 in the United Kingdom. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png it - Information Technology de Gruyter

Digital Archaeology

it - Information Technology , Volume 64 (6): 2 – Dec 1, 2022

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de Gruyter
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© 2022 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston
ISSN
2196-7032
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2196-7032
DOI
10.1515/itit-2022-0061
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Abstract

Research in history spans the incredible time span of 5.300 years allowing insights in many aspects of the changes and constants in culture. However, the written word might not always tell the truth nor is it available for all regions and time periods. So archaeologists investigate material remains and create insights into wide variety of topics like production techniques, trade, migration, climate change and many more.As archaeological research is related to the Humanities it organizes itself typically according to certain regions and/or time periods starting with prehistory, which is probably closest to natural science in contrast to classical archaeology having a strong bias towards art history. Having adopted mathematical and statistical methods in substantial amounts for archaeological research the path for including computer science was prepared quite early. This can be dated at least to the 1960’s introducing a New Archaeology by Lewis R. Binford and David L. Clarke as well as early works by Clive Orton and Nick Ryan. These formative years continue in the early 1970 s where a small group of archaeologists and mathematicians founded the Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA) group. It organized its first annual conference in 1973 in the United Kingdom.

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Published: Dec 1, 2022

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