CAA 1990

Proceedings of the 18th CAA conference held at the University of Southampton, UK, 21st to 23rd March, 1990

Edited by Kris Lockyear & Sebastian Rahtz

Published in the BAR International Series (S565) by Tempvs Reparatvm, Oxford, UK, 1991.

I Communications and Teaching

1     Kai Jakobs Klaus D.        Using public communications services for             1–7        
      Kleefeld                   archaeological applications.                                    

2     David Wheatley             SyGraf: resource based teaching with graphics.       9–13       

3     Roger Martlew              Every picture tells a story: 'The Archaeology        15–19      
                                 Disc' and its implications.                                     

4     J. Maytom K. Torevell      Putting the public in the picture: an interactive    21–22      
                                 video applications generator.                                   

5     Clive Ruggles Jeremy       LIVE update: archaeological courseware using         23–28      
      Huggett Steven Hayles      interactive video.                                              
      Howard Pringle Ian Lauder

II Stratigraphic Matrix Processing

6     Bruno Desachy François     Matrix processing of stratigraphic graphs: a new     29–37      
      Djindjian                  method.                                                         

7     Jeremy Huggett Malcolm     The computer representation of space in urban        39–42      
      Cooper                     archaeology.                                                    

8     Robin Boast Dave Chapman   SQL and hypertext generation of stratigraphic        43–51      
                                 adjacency matrices.                                             

9     Irmela Herzog Irwin        A new graph theoretic oriented program for Harris    53–59      
      Scollar                    Matrix analysis.

III Heritage Management

10    Daniel Arroyo-Bishop       The ArchéoDATA System – towards a European           61–69      
                                 archaeological document.                                        

11    Daniel Arroyo-Bishop M.    Practical considerations for long term data          71–73      
      T. Lantada Zarzosa         conservation and analysis.                                      

12    Sue Gordon                 How safe is your data?                               75–79      

13    Nigel Clubb                Procuring medium-large systems in the public         81–84      
                                 sector – the experience of the English Heritage                 
                                 Record of Scheduled Monuments.                                  

14    Nigel Clubb                The operational requirement for a medium to large    85–91      
                                 scale system – the experience of the new English                
                                 Heritage Record of Scheduled Monuments.

IV Statistical Applications

15    C. E. Buck C. D. Litton    A computational Bayes approach to some common        93–99      
                                 archaeological problems.                                        

16    C. D. Litton M. N. Leese   Some statistical problems arising in radiocarbon     101–109    
                                 calibration.                                                    

17    A. Scott J. Whittaker M.   Graphical modelling of archaeological data.          111–116    
      Green S. Hillson                                                                           

18    Paul Tyers Clive Orton     Statistical analysis of ceramic assemblages – a      117–120    
                                 year's progress.                                                

19    Paul Tyers Clive Orton     A technique for reducing the size of sparse          121-126    
                                 contingency tables.                                             

20    M. J. Baxter H. E. M.      An approach to quantifying window glass.             127–131    
      Cool

V Visualisation of Archaeological Data

21 Paul Reilly Towards a virtual archaeology. 133–139

22 Ken Delooze Jason Wood Furness Abbey survey project – the application of 141–148
computer graphics and data visualisation to
reconstruction modelling of an historic monument.

23 P. H. Lewis K. J. Goodson Images, databases and edge detection for 149–153
archaeological object drawings.

24 Madhumita Sen-Gupta Visualisation of sherd movement in the plough zone. 155–164
Susan Laflin Peter
Reynolds

25 Gary R. Lock Trevor M. Integrating spatial information in computerised 165–173
Harris Sites and Monuments Records: meeting
archaeological requirements in the 1990s.

26 J. D. Richards Terrain modelling, deposit survival and urban 175–182
archaeology.

27 J. Wainwright J. B. Computer and hardware modelling of sediment 183–194
Thornes transport on hillslopes.

28 Kris Lockyear Simulating coin hoard formation. 195–206

VI Expert Systems

29    Vanda Vitali               Formal methods for the analysis of archaeological    207–209    
                                 data: data analysis vs expert systems.                          

30    H. P. Francfort            Palamede – application of expert systems to the      211–214    
                                 archaeology of prehistoric urban civilisations.