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On the Theory and Practice of Archaeological Computing

edited by Gary Lock and Kayt Brown

These nine papers, based on the 4th World Archaeological Congress held in South Africa in 1999, take a critical view of computer usage in archaeology and study its impact on the discipline and especially in terms of archaeological method and theory. Contents: Introduction (Gark Lock & Kayt Brown); Computers and archaeological cultural change (J Huggett); Archaeological computing and disciplinary theory (J Gidlow); Mathematics and computers (H Forsyth); Virtual reality (G Goodrick & M Gillings); Archaeological archives for the 21st century (F Grew); Intellectual excavation (A Beck); English sites and monuments records (B Robinson); Can computers help aerial survey? (R Palmer); Is there such a thing as `Computer Archaeology'? (A Tschan & P Daly). 154p, b/w illus, tbs (OUCA 51, 2000)

Review Quote

'This is a book that should be on all course reading lists. It is a valuable addition to the literature on the effects of the ICT revolution on archaeology.'

Julien D Richards
Internet Archaeology (2001)

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