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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462669103321

Titolo

Computational approaches to archaeological spaces / / edited by Andrew Bevan, Mark Lake

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Walnut Creek, California : , : Left Coast Press, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

1-315-43192-0

1-315-43193-9

1-61132-348-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (339 p.)

Collana

Publications of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London

Altri autori (Persone)

BevanAndrew <1974->

LakeMark (Mark W.)

Disciplina

930.1

Soggetti

Spatial analysis (Statistics) in archaeology

Archaeology - Computer simulation

Virtual reality in archaeology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / Andrew Bevan and Mark Lake -- Intensities, interactions and uncertainties : some new approaches to archaeological distributions / Andrew Bevan, Enrico Crema, Xiuzhen Li and Alessio Palmisano -- An examination of automated archaeological feature recognition in remotely sensed imagery / Kenneth Kvamme -- An introduction to integrative distance analysis / Terence Clarke -- Network models and archaeological spaces / Ray Rivers, Carl Knappett, Timothy Evans -- Multilevel selection and the evolution of food sharing in fragmented environments : a spatially explicit model and its implications for early Stone Age archaeology / Luke Premo -- Stories of the past or science of the future? : archaeology and computational social science / Michael Barton -- The potential and limits of optimal path analysis / Irmela Herzog -- Compute-intensive GIS visibility analysis of the settings of prehistoric stone circles / Mark Lake and Damon Ortega -- Reconsidering the concept of visualscape : recent advances in three-dimensional visibility analysis / Eleftheria Paliou --



Formal and informal analysis of rendered space : the Basilica Portuense / Graeme Earl, Vito Porcelli, Constantinos Papadopoulos, Gareth Beale, Matthew Harrison, Hembo Pagi and Simon Keay -- Reproducible data analysis and the open source paradigm in archaeology / Benjamin Ducke.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume of original chapters written by experts in the field offers a snapshot of how historical built spaces, past cultural landscapes, and archaeological distributions are currently being explored through computational social science. It focuses on the continuing importance of spatial and spatio-temporal pattern recognition in the archaeological record, considers more wholly model-based approaches that fix ideas and build theory, and addresses those applications where situated human experience and perception are a core interest. Reflecting the changes in computational technology over the