Using Computers In Archaeology

Author : Gary R. Lock
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415166201
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Using Computers in Archaeology written by Gary R. Lock and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive review of computer applications in archaeology from the archaeologist's perspective. The book deals with all aspects of the discipline, from survey and excavation to museums and education.

Author : Shannon P. McPherron
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Using Computers in Archaeology written by Shannon P. McPherron and published by McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages. This book was released on 2002 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Author : Jussi Parikka
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820488370
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Digital Contagions written by Jussi Parikka and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Digital Contagions is the first book to offer a comprehensive and critical analysis of the culture and history of the computer virus phenomenon. The book maps the anomalies of network culture from the angles of security concerns, the biopolitics of digital systems, and the aspirations for artificial life in software. The genealogy of network culture is approached from the standpoint of accidents that are endemic to the digital media ecology. Viruses, worms, and other software objects are not, then, seen merely from the perspective of anti-virus research or practical security concerns, but as cultural and historical expressions that traverse a non-linear field from fiction to technical media, from net art to politics of software. Jussi Parikka mobilizes an extensive array of source materials and intertwines them with an inventive new materialist cultural analysis. Digital Contagions draws from the cultural theories of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Friedrich Kittler, and Paul Virilio, among others, and offers novel insights into historical media analysis.

Author : Politis, Dionysios
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1599047616
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book E-Learning Methodologies and Computer Applications in Archaeology written by Politis, Dionysios and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2008-04-30 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tools of data comparison and analysis are critical in the field of archaeology, and the integration of technological advancements such as geographic information systems, intelligent systems, and virtual reality reconstructions with the teaching of archaeology is crucial to the effective utilization of resources in the field. E-Learning Methodologies and Computer Applications in Archaeology presents innovative instructional approaches for archaeological e-learning based on networked technologies, providing researchers, scholars, and professionals a comprehensive global perspective on the resources, development, application, and implications of information communication technology in multimedia-based educational products and services in archaeology.

Author : Jacob Gaboury
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262045036
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Image Objects written by Jacob Gaboury and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How computer graphics transformed the computer from a calculating machine into an interactive medium, as seen through the histories of five technical objects. Most of us think of computer graphics as a relatively recent invention, enabling the spectacular visual effects and lifelike simulations we see in current films, television shows, and digital games. In fact, computer graphics have been around as long as the modern computer itself, and played a fundamental role in the development of our contemporary culture of computing. In Image Objects, Jacob Gaboury offers a prehistory of computer graphics through an examination of five technical objects--an algorithm, an interface, an object standard, a programming paradigm, and a hardware platform--arguing that computer graphics transformed the computer from a calculating machine into an interactive medium. Gaboury explores early efforts to produce an algorithmic solution for the calculation of object visibility; considers the history of the computer screen and the random-access memory that first made interactive images possible; examines the standardization of graphical objects through the Utah teapot, the most famous graphical model in the history of the field; reviews the graphical origins of the object-oriented programming paradigm; and, finally, considers the development of the graphics processing unit as the catalyst that enabled an explosion in graphical computing at the end of the twentieth century. The development of computer graphics, Gaboury argues, signals a change not only in the way we make images but also in the way we mediate our world through the computer--and how we have come to reimagine that world as computational.

Author : Jens Andresen
Publisher : Aarhus Universitetsforlag
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Computing the Past written by Jens Andresen and published by Aarhus Universitetsforlag. This book was released on 1993 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study illustrating the use of computer applications and quantitative methods in archaeology.

Author : John K. McCarthy
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030036359
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 3D Recording and Interpretation for Maritime Archaeology written by John K. McCarthy and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-03-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access peer-reviewed volume was inspired by the UNESCO UNITWIN Network for Underwater Archaeology International Workshop held at Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia in November 2016. Content is based on, but not limited to, the work presented at the workshop which was dedicated to 3D recording and interpretation for maritime archaeology. The volume consists of contributions from leading international experts as well as up-and-coming early career researchers from around the globe. The content of the book includes recording and analysis of maritime archaeology through emerging technologies, including both practical and theoretical contributions. Topics include photogrammetric recording, laser scanning, marine geophysical 3D survey techniques, virtual reality, 3D modelling and reconstruction, data integration and Geographic Information Systems. The principal incentive for this publication is the ongoing rapid shift in the methodologies of maritime archaeology within recent years and a marked increase in the use of 3D and digital approaches. This convergence of digital technologies such as underwater photography and photogrammetry, 3D sonar, 3D virtual reality, and 3D printing has highlighted a pressing need for these new methodologies to be considered together, both in terms of defining the state-of-the-art and for consideration of future directions. As a scholarly publication, the audience for the book includes students and researchers, as well as professionals working in various aspects of archaeology, heritage management, education, museums, and public policy. It will be of special interest to those working in the field of coastal cultural resource management and underwater archaeology but will also be of broader interest to anyone interested in archaeology and to those in other disciplines who are now engaging with 3D recording and visualization.

Author : J. E. Doran
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mathematics and Computers in Archaeology written by J. E. Doran and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is for students and practitioners of archaeology. It offers an introductory survey of all the applications of mathematical and statistical techniques to their work. These applications are increasingly concerned with computerized data classification and quantification, and their effect is to reduce the level of uncertainty in the interpretation of the evidence that time and chance have left. Any archaeologist wanting to find out what these new methods have to offer has hitherto been forced to search for information in the specialist handbooks, conference proceedings, and review articles of his own, and very often of other, disciplines. This book brings together the information conveniently together, so far as it pertains to archaeology, and permits an assessment of its relevance and quality."--Provided by publisher

Author : Thomas Laurence Evans
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415310482
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Digital Archaeology written by Thomas Laurence Evans and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors address how digital technologies have been and can be incorporated within different aspects of archaeology and heritage management. They aim to stimulate widespread thought and debate on how IT can be holistically integrated into the study of past cultures.

Author : John Aycock
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319300040
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Retrogame Archeology written by John Aycock and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-05-09 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on extensive research, this book explores the techniques that old computer games used to run on tightly-constrained platforms. Retrogame developers faced incredible challenges of limited space, computing power, rudimentary tools, and the lack of homogeneous environments. Using examples from over 100 retrogames, this book examines the clever implementation tricks that game designers employed to make their creations possible, documenting these techniques that are being lost. However, these retrogame techniques have modern analogues and applications in general computer systems, not just games, and this book makes these contemporary connections. It also uses retrogames' implementation to introduce a wide variety of topics in computer systems including memory management, interpretation, data compression, procedural content generation, and software protection. Retrogame Archeology targets professionals and advanced-level students in computer science, engineering, and mathematics but would also be of interest to retrogame enthusiasts, computer historians, and game studies researchers in the humanities.