AR250 Lecture 3: AR250 3 - Towards Paperless Archaeology
15 Feb 2018
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Principles to consider: principles employed by the long now organization provide a means of thinking about paper versus paperless archaeology: longevity, evolvability, maintainability, scalability, Pottery analysis: pottery is the most ubiquitous and important artifact recovered during survey and excavation in mediterranean archaeology, three standards of pottery analysis are identification, quantification and chronology, identification: Technology can come to the rescue for elements of identification like colour (munsell soil colour chart = 200$ usd, iphone app = free) Some web resources are available, there have been proposals for digital solutions based on algorithms that trace curvature of vessel and compare it to a database of finds. Disadvantages of the computer based approach include: building up a sufficient database would require scanning in drawings from older publications; quality of results would be based on quality of the drawings: drawing: Archaeological drawing of pottery tends to be standardized, does not require artistic skill. Some projects now accomplish all artifact illustration solely through digital means.
