About the Book

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Biographies of Authors

Part I: Where We’ve Been and Where We Are Going

• Introduction: Archaeological theory and digital pasts
• Digital Archaeology: A historical context

Part II: Data Collection

• Archaeological Survey in a Digital World
• Drowning in data?: Digital data in a British contracting unit

Part III: Quantification Made Easy

• 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 north-eastern France

Part IV: Modelling the Past

• Jouma’s Tent: Bedouin and digital archaeology
• Digital Archaeology and the Scalar Structure of Pastoral Landscapes: Modeling mobile societies of prehistoric Central Asia
• What You See is What You Get? Visualscapes, visual genesis and hierarchy

Part V: Virtual Worlds

• 'Digital Gardening': An approach to simulating elements of palaeovegetation and some implications for the interpretation of prehistoric sites and landscapes
• At the Edges of the Lens: Photography, graphical constructions and cinematography

Part VI: Disseminating the Data

• Electronic Publication in Archaeology
• Computers, Learning and Teaching in Archaeology: Life past and present on the screen
• What's Another Word for Thesaurus?: Data standards and classifying the past

Part VII: Conclusion

Afterword