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Computational Approaches to Archaeological Spaces

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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.

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Acknowledgments

1. Introduction,Andrew Bevan and Mark Lake
2. Intensities, Interactions and Uncertainties: Some New Approaches to Archaeological Distributions, Andrew Bevan, Enrico Crema, Xiuzhen Li and Alessio Palmisano
3. An Examination of Automated Archaeological Feature Recognition in Remotely Sensed Imagery, Kenneth Kvamme
4. An Introduction to Integrative Distance Analysis (IDA), Terence Clarke
5. Network Models and Archaeological Spaces, Ray Rivers, Carl Knappett, and Timothy Evans
6. Multilevel Selection and the Evolution of Food Sharing in Fragmented Environments: A Spatially Explicit Model and its Implications for Early Stone Age Archaeology, L.S. Premo
7. Stories of the Past or Science of the Future? Archaeology and Computational Social Science, Michael Barton
8. The Potential and Limits of Optimal Path Analysis, Irmela Herzog
9. Compute-Intensive GIS Visibility Analysis of the Settings of Prehistoric Stone Circles, Mark Lake and Damon Ortega
10. Reconsidering the Concept of Visualscape: Recent Advances in Three-Dimensional Visibility Analysis, Eleftheria Paliou
11. 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
12. Reproducible Data Analysis and the Open Source Paradigm in Archaeology, Benjamin Ducke

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Andrew Bevan, Mark Lake

Summary

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.

Product details

Assisted by Andrew Bevan (Editor), Mark Lake (Editor)
Publisher Taylor and Francis
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 31.08.2013
 
EAN 9781611323467
ISBN 978-1-61132-346-7
No. of pages 330
Dimensions 152 mm x 229 mm x 24 mm
Weight 790 g
Illustrations Farb., s/w. Abb.
Series UCL Institute of Archaeology Publications
Ucl Institute of Archaeology P
Subjects Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history
Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity

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