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Proceedings of the 28th CAA conference held at Ljubljana, Slovenia,18-21 April 2000

Edited by Zoran Stancic and Tatjana Veljanovski

Published in the BAR International Series 931, Archaeopress, Oxford, UK, 2001.

CONTENTS

Preface

Documentation and Recording of Sites and Field Survey Data

A new Technique for Recording Archaeological Excavations: Research 
Progress Report
Geoffrey John Avern 3-8
Integrated Use DGPS and the Total Station for the Survey of Archaeological 
Sites: The Case of Colle Breccioso
Francesca Colosi, Roberto Gabnelli and Dano Rose 9-12
Computerised Techniques for Field Data Acquisition
Enrico Reali and Tommaso Zoppi 13-18
Understanding and Using Archaeological Topographic Surveys 
- The "Error Conspiracy"
Henry Chapman 19-24
3D Visual Information and GIS Technologies for Documentation of 
Paintings in the M Sepulcher in the Vatican Necropolis
Maurizio Forte, Stefano Tilia, Angela Bizzarro and Alessandro Tilia 25-32

Artefact Analyses and Classification

Past, Present, and Future of Quantitative Methods in United States Archaeology
George L. Cowgill 35-40
Artefact Analysis
Francois Djindjian 41-52
Grouping Ceramic Compositional Data: An S- Plus Implementation
Christian C. Beardah and Mike J. Baxter 53-60
Why the Application of a Gaussian Curve and Seriation Programs can be 
Detrimental
Andrej Pleterski 61-62
Quantities, Possibilities and Probabilities: Some Experiences from the 
Research of the Roman Age in Slovenia
Iva Mikl Curk 63-68
Image Quantification as Archaeological Description
JuanA. Barceló, Jordi Pijoan and Oriol Vicente 69-78
The SHAPE Lab: New Technology and Software for Archaeologists
Frederic F. Leymarie, David B. Cooper, Martha Sharp Joukowsky, 
Benjamin B. Kimia, David H. Laidlaw, David Mumford and Eileen L. Vote 79-90
An Experimental Method for the Analysis of Attributes of Flint 
Artefacts Using Image Processing
Sorin Hermon, Marco Petrone and Luigi Calori 91-98

National and Regional SMR

Transforming Diversity into Uniformity -Experiments with 
Meta-structures for Database Recording
Torsten Madsen 101-106
Archaeological Applications of Fuzzy Databases
Franco Niccolucci, Andrea D'Andrea and Marco Crescioli 107-116
A Metastructure for Thesauri in Archaeology
Martin Doerr and Demetrios Kalomoirakis 117-126
SMR in New Clothes: The Danish National Record of Sites and Monuments 
on the Verge of a New Era
Lars Bagge Nielsen, Henrik Jarl Hansen and Claus Dam 127-132
National Registries of Sites and Monuments in Norway -Developing 
GIS-based Databases
Evy Berg 133-138
A GIS Driven Regional Database of Archaeological Resources for 
Research and CRM in Casco Bay, Maine
Matthew Bampton and Rosemary Mosher 139-142
Using a Relational Database Management System for the Recording of 
Ancient Settlements and Sites in the Vrachneika Territory in
Western Greece
Vangelis G. Tsakirakis 143-148
Vienna Archaeological GIS (VAGIS): A Short Outline of a New System for the 
Stadtarchäologie Wien
Wolfgang Bomer 149-152
NARS -Nabunken Aerial Photograph Retrieval System - A Way to the GIS
Susumu Morimoto 153-156

Intra Site Spatial Analyses

Formalizing Fact and Fiction in Four Dimensions: A Relational Description 
of Temporal Structures in Settlements
Mads Kähler Holst 159-164
Introspective Sitescaping with GIS
Dora Constantinidis 165-172
A GIS Solution for Excavations: Experience of the Siena University LIAAM
Vittorio Fronza, Alessandra Nardini, Federico Salzotti and 
Marco Valenti 173-178
Data Integration and Intra Site Spatial Analysis of the Castellaro del Vho
Manio Pessina 179-184

Archaeological Regional Spatial Analyses and Predictive Modelling

Ancient Roads and Fields in Northwestern Gaul- A GIS-Based Analysis
Frank Vermeulen, MarcAntrop, Beatrijs Hageman and Torsten Wiedemann 187-196
An "Integrated Space" Approach for the Interpretation of a 
Medieval Stronghold in Middle Pomerania, Poland
Rafal Zaplata and André P. Tschan 197-204
Interpreting Field Survey Results in the Light of Historic Relief 
Change: The Fogliano Beach Ridges (South Lazio, Italy)
Hendrik Feiken and Martijn van Leusen 205-210
Understanding the Neolithic Landscape of the Carnac Region: A GIS Approach
Corinne Roughley 211-218
The Hidden Reserve: Predictive Modelling of Buried Archaeological Sites 
in the Tricastin- Valdaine Region (Middle Rhone Valley, France)
Philip Verhagen and Jean-Francois Berger 2l9-232
Archaeological Predictive Modelling for Highway Construction Planning
Zoran Stancic, Tatjana Veljanovski, Kristof Ostir and Tomaz Podobnikar 233-238

Future Trends in Spatial Analyses

The Aksum Project (Ethiopia): GIS, Remote Sensing Applications 
and Virtual Reality
Maurizio Forte, Kathryn A. Bard, Rodolfo Fattovich, Monica Foccillo, 
Andrea Manzo and Cinzia Perlingeri 241-252
Archaeological Data Spaces: Spatial Aggregation and Large-Scale 
Knowledge Environments 
Cornelius Steckner 259-262
Setting Demographic Limits: The North American Case
Dean R. Snow 259-262
Counting the Uncountable: A Quantitative Approach to the Religious 
Differences between the Roman Towns of Emona and Poetovio
Bemarda Zupanek and Dimitrij Mlekuz 263-268
Design and Performance of the Varatioscope
John W.M. Peterson 269-272
Complexity in Action: "The Emergence of Agro-pastoral Societies"
Alexandra Agueda de Figueiredo Leite Velho and Goncalo Cardoso 
Leite Velho 273-278
Setting up a "Human Calibrated" Anisotropic Cost Surface for 
Archaeological Landscape Investigation
Michele De Silva and Giovanna Pizziolo 279-286

Presentation of Archaeological Data

A Digital Future for our Excavated Past
Tony Austin, Damian Robinson and Keith Westcott 289-298
Virtual 3D Reconstruction of the Kiafar Site, North Caucasus, Russia
Mikhail Zhukovsky 297-302
Indexing and Retrieving Archaeological Resources on the Internet - A prototype 
Multilingual Thesaurus Application
Martijn van Leusen 303-312
ARCHAVE: A Virtual Environment for Archaeological Research
Eileen L. Vote, Daniel Acevedo, David Laidlaw and Martha Sharp Joukowsky 313-316
Web Access to an Archaeological GIS
Andrea D'Andrea, Franco Niccolucci and Marco Crescioli 317-322
Archterra: Extending the European Archaeology Web over 
Bulgaria, Romania and Poland
Martijn van Leusen and Andrzej Prinke 323-326

Public Access to Archaeological Heritage

"Observing the Game": What can Access Statistics Really Tell Us?
William Kilbride and Judith Winters 339-346
Publishing on the Internet: The Internet as an Academic Information Source
Henriette Günther Soerensen and Kaj Fredsgaard Rasmussen 347-350
Questions Raised by Electronic Publication in Archaeology
Jo Clarke 351-356
In Patrimonium: A Data Model for Museum and Cultural Heritage Information
Femando Cabral and Mário Brito 357-362
Can Schoolchildren Digitise Their History?
Helene Simoni and Kostas Papagiannopoulos 363-368