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0.2. Mobile Computing in Archaeology: Exploring and Interpreting Current Practices
(2016-10-02)Since 2010, a range of mobile and internet-connected tablet computing devices (e.g., iPads) have been integrated into archaeological practice, with projects experimenting with new approaches to documenting, interpreting, ... -
1.1. Why Paperless: Technology and Changes in Archaeological Practice, 1996–2016
(2016-10-03)The past 20 years have witnessed a slow march toward complete digitization of archaeological field data. In this paper, I assess the last two decades of academic archaeological fieldwork based on my experience with field ... -
1.2. Are We Ready for New (Digital) Ways to Record Archaeological Fieldwork? A Case Study from Pompeii
(2016-10-04)Beyond outlining some of the experiences and outcomes of the conversion of the University of Cincinnati’s excavations at Pompeii to a “paperless” project, particularly through the highly publicized adoption of iPads to ... -
1.3. Sangro Valley and the Five (Paperless) Seasons: Lessons on Building Effective Digital Recording Workflows for Archaeological Fieldwork
(2016-10-05)Since 2011 the Sangro Valley Project (Italy) has employed a custom-built paperless recording system with iPads and FileMaker at its core. This paper summarizes the evolution of the project’s paperless system and presents ... -
1.4. DIY Digital Workflows on the Athienou Archaeological Project, Cyprus
(2016-10-06)For the last 25 years, the Athienou Archaeological Project (AAP) has conducted pedestrian survey and excavations of domestic, religious, and funerary sites in the Malloura Valley on Cyprus. To enhance the project’s research ... -
1.5. Enhancing Archaeological Data Collection and Student Learning with a Mobile Relational Database
(2016-10-07)In 2011, the Proyecto de Investigación Arqueológico Regional Ancash (PIARA) inaugurated an archaeological field school that employed a comprehensive digital data collection protocol. Students learned to record data on iPads ... -
1.6. Digital Archaeology in the Rural Andes: Problems and Prospects
(2016-10-08)This chapter explores the social context of digital archaeology conducted in a developing nation, with an emphasis on the archaeological project at Chavín de Huántar, in Peru. One might argue that the relevance, audience, ... -
1.7. Digital Pompeii: Dissolving the Fieldwork-Library Research Divide
(2016-10-09)The advent of new forms of digital archaeological practice is revolutionizing the ways in which archaeologists work in the field. We have already witnessed the first part of the revolution, which has transformed archaeological ... -
2.1. Reflections on Custom Mobile App Development for Archaeological Data Collection
(2016-10-10)With the widespread adoption of tablet computers in 2010, archaeologists quickly began to envision new ways of completing traditional tasks. The technology seemed particularly well-suited for replacing the paper-and-pencil ... -
2.2. The Things We Can Do with Pictures: Image-Based Modeling and Archaeology
(2016-10-11)Since the wide-spread availability of cost efficient image-based modeling software emerged five years ago, the discipline of archaeology has seen a proliferation of all things digital. The implementation of 3D modeling ... -
2.3 Beyond the Basemap: Multiscalar Survey through Aerial Photogrammetry in the Andes
(2016-10-12)The revolutionary capabilities of digital aerial photogrammetry open new avenues for archaeological research design, cultural heritage management, and spatial visualization and analysis. The low cost and high speed of ... -
2.4. An ASV (Autonomous Surface Vehicle) for Archaeology: The Pladypos at Caesarea Maritima, Israel
(2016-10-13)With the advent of new digital site recording technologies, archaeologists must manage spatial and visual datasets that have grown far beyond the capacity of last century’s paper notebooks. Turning to purely digital recording ... -
2020 Conference on College Composition and Communication: Landing page
(2020-03-01)This site hosts the local landing page for the 2020 Conference on College Composition and Communication. These pages are nested within a blog site called Writing & Rhetoric MKE, which is run by graduate students who study ... -
3.1. Cástulo in the 21st Century: A Test Site for a New Digital Information System
(2016-10-14)The site of Cástulo, located near Linares (in the province of Jaén, Andalusia, Spain), was continuously occupied from prehistory through the sixteenth century c.e. The site offers a rich archaeological history, and it is ... -
3.2. Measure Twice, Cut Once: Cooperative Deployment of a Generalized, Archaeology-Specific Field Data Collection System
(2016-10-15)The Federated Archaeological Information Management Systems (FAIMS) Project is an Australian, university-based initiative developing a generalized, open-source mobile data collection platform that can be customized for ... -
3.3. CSS for Success? Some Thoughts on Adapting the Browser-Based Archaeological Recording Kit (ARK) for Mobile Recording
(2016-10-16)The Archaeological Recording Kit (ARK) is an open-source system for flexible, web-based archaeological data management. As new advances in mobile technology have changed the way archaeologists think about data collection, ... -
3.4. The Development of the PaleoWay Digital Workflows in the Context of Archaeological Consulting
(2016-10-17)PaleoWest Archaeology began to develop technology and methods for digital data collection in 2010, and quickly became the first archaeological consulting firm in the United State to adopt an all-digital workflow. The initial ... -
4.1. Slow Archaeology: Technology, Efficiency, and Archaeological Work
(2016-10-18)Slow archaeology situates contemporary, digital archaeological practice both in the historical tradition of the modern discipline of archaeology and within a discourse informed by calls for Taylorist efficiency. Rather ... -
4.2. Click Here to Save the Past
(2016-10-19)This chapter owes much to the trenchant criticism of Internet utopianism offered by Evgeny Morozov in his influential book, To Save Everything, Click Here (2014). As such, this essay reflects on some issues in the social ... -
5.1. Response: Living a Semi-digital Kinda Life
(2016-10-20)The following observations draw on my personal experience as an archaeologist working in the Eastern Mediterranean who has dabbled in the digital world. In considering the papers in this volume, I reflect on what it means ...