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Proceedings of the 28th CAA conference held at Visby, Gotland, Sweden,25-29 April 2001

Edited by Göran Burenhult

Published in the BAR International Series 1016, Archaeopress, Oxford, UK, 2002.

CONTENTS

Preface

Papers in the GIS category

Extracting “Natural Pathways” from a Digital Elevation Model. Applications to Landscape Archaeological Studies.
Gino Bellavia

2000 Years of Town Planning in Vienna
Wolfgang Börner

A 5000-Years History of Settlement and Irrigation in the Murghab Delta (Turkmenistan). An Attempt of Reconstruction of Ancient Deltaic System
Barbara Cerasettz

Building, building on the wall. A reflection of actual building dimensions?
Dora Constantinidis

Historic landscape assessment: The East of England Experience.
Lynn Dyson—Bruce

GIS approach to Iberian iron age landscape in central—south Valencia region (Spain).
Ignacio Grau Mira

Developing an Information System for Archaeological Sites and Monuments – Data Model and Construction.
David Haskiya

Using viewsheds wisely: developing sound methodologies from spatial analyses of megalithic monuments in western Scotland.
Gail Higginbottom, Ken Simpson and Roger Clay

Reconstructing the seascape at the mouth of the Oder. Elaboration of a DBM-model based on 1912-soundings.
George Indruszewski

The TimeMap Kiosk: Delivering Historical Images in a Spatio—Temporal Context.
Ian Johnson and Andrew Wilson

The answer is blowin’ in the wind. Research desires and data possibilities.
Hans Kamermans

A hundred years of lake contour fluctuation in the Hamun-i Helmand: A GIS based system for the study and the recovery of archaeological information in the iranian Sistan ( 1899—1999).
Sabatino Laurenza and Sophie Pornet-Laurenza

From Stratigraphic Unit to the mouse: a GIS based system for the excavation of historical complex. The case study of Pompeii.
Sabatino Laurenza and Cristiano Putzolu

Statistical analysis of the distribution of modern primates: a comparative approach to the spatial analysis of the Palaeolithic.
Katharine MacDonald

The Creation and Potential Applications of a 3-Dimensional CIS for the Early Hominid Site of Swartkrans, South Africa.
Joseph D. Nigro, W. Fredrick Limp, Kenneth K. Kvamme, Darryl J. de Ruiter and Lee R. Berger

GIS contribution to urban history and to the reconstruction of ancient landscape.
Sofia Pescarin

GIS Modeling of the Minoan Peak Sanctuaries of East Crete.
S. Soetens, A. Sarris, S. Topouzi and A. Tripolitsiotis

Modeling Archaeological and Historical Cognitive Landscapes in the Greater Yellowstone Region (Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho, USA) Using Geographic Information Systems.
Thomas C. Whitley

GIS and Space Analysis in the study of the Hospitallers’ fortifications in the Dodecanese.
Nicholas Zarifis and Despina Brokou

Papers in the Virtual Archaeology category

Reconstructions of the Excavations of Two Iron Age Chariot Burials from Belgium. Applying Virtual Reality to Old Excavation Data.
Geoff Avern

3D standards for scientific communication.
Francesca Cantone

Acoustic reconstruction of music performance spaces using three-dimentional digital waveguide mesh models.
Guilherme Campos, David M. Howard and Steve Dobson

A virtual journey through a Roman settlement. Aloria.
Juan José Fuldain González

Topometrical measurements in Tiryns, Greece. Report on a co-operate project between physics and archaeology.
Maria Shinoto, Zoltán Böröcz, Carsten Thomas, Dieter Dirksen, Joseph Maran and Gert von Bally

Advances in Geometric Modeling and Feature Extraction on Pots, Rocks and Bones for Representation and Query via the internet
Utsav A. Schurmans, Anshuman Razdan, Arleyn Simon, Mary Marzke, Peter McCartney, David Van Alfen, Gram Jones, Mary Zhu, Dezhi Liu, Myungsoo Bae, Jeremy Rowe, Gerald Farin and Dan Collins

Papers in the Osteology category

Neural Network Classification of Skeletal Remains.
Suzanne Bell and Richard Jantz

Osteology for the new millennium.
Gustav Jonsson

3-D CAT-scan: Anthropology, Archaeology and Virtual Reality.
Niels Lvnnerup

The Statistics of Archaeological Deformation Processes. An archaeozoological experiment.
Laura Mameli, Juan A. Barcelo and Jordi Estevez

Papers in the Internet Applications and Cultural Heritage Management categories

Generating Multilingual Personalized Descriptions of Museum Exhibits - The M-PIRO Project.
Ion Androutsopoulos, Aggeliki Dimitromanolaki, Vassiliki Kokkinaki, Jo Calder,
Jon Obenlander and Elena Not

Joined up writing: an Internet portal for research into the Historic Environment.
Tony Austin, Francisco Pinto, Julian Richards and Nick Ryan

The Archaeological Map of Egypt (Archaeological Heritage Resource Management System).
Fathi Saleh and Reem Bahgat

Geographic Information Systems and Archaeology: the case of ancient Nora (Pula-Cagliari).
Anna Maria Colavitti and Giancarlo Deplano

XML Encoding of Archaeological Unstructured Data.
Marco Crescioli, Andrea D’Andrea and Franco Niccolucci

Cultural landscape, computers and characterisation: GIS-based Historic Landscape Characterisation as a tool for archaeological resource management in England.
Graham Fairclough

Corinth Computer Project: Internet Education.
David Gilman Romano and Nicholas L. Stapp

Desktop - Photogrammetry and its Link to Web Publishing.
Gunter Pomaska

A Web-based Digital Archaeological Map of Lasithi, E. Crete.
Apostolos Sarris, Katerina Bichta, Marina Giasta, Anthi Giourou, Evaggelia Karimali,
Vaggelis Kevgas, Kostas Margetousakis, Eleni Peraki, Steven Soetens, Katerina Tzaneteas, Sofia Topouzi and Achilleas Tripolitsiotis

The Archaeologist Files: An approach to the digital contextualization of archaeological finds in user adaptive information systems.
Isto Vatanen

Papers in the Survey and Mapping, Archaeometry, GPS and CAD categories

New Tools for Understanding Plains Indian Sites in Grasslands National Park, Canada.
Gary Adams

Archaeological Survey as Optimal Search.
E. B. Banning

Archaeological spatial modeling. A case study from Beagle Channel (Argentina).
Juan A. Barcelo, Ernesto L. Piana and Daniel R. Martinioni

Views on ,,castrum cuscin”. Archeology and archaeometry under water.
Ralf Bleile, Cornelius Meyer and Burkhardt Ullrich

A PC-based stereoscopic measurement system for the generation of digital object models.
Frank Boochs, Stephan Eckhardt and Ben Fischer

Infra-red (Reflectance) Spectroscopy of Ceramics from Tell Halawa, Syria.
Murray Lee Eiland and Quentin Williams

Detailed Topography and Surface Survey. W/ltat is the point? Tanagra City Survey 2000.
Emeri Farinetti and Lefteris Sigalos

The application of high-resolution satellite imagery for the detection of ancient Minoan features on Crete.
Lefki Pavlidis, Clive S. Fraser and Cliff Ogleby

Educating the Digital Fieldwork Assistant.
Nick Ryan and Martijn van Leusen

From Field Books to Powerbook. Computer Applications and the Promontory Palace of Herod the Great.
James C. Schryver

Errors & Inaccuracies in Repositioning of Archaeological Sites.
S.Topouzi, A. Tripolitsiotis, A. Sarris, S. Mertikas and S. Soetens

Three-dimensional excavation plans and 3D Studio Max. Experiences from the excavations of the medieval town of Naantali, Finland.
Kari Uotila and Carita Tulkki

Handling digital 3-D record of archaeological excavation data.
Mikhail Zhukovsky

Papers in the Database Applications and Statistics and Quantitative Methods categories

Approaches to petrographic data analysis using S-Plus.
C.C. Beardah, M.J. Baxter, I. Papageorgiou and M.A. Cau

Developing an information system for archaeological sites and monuments - administration and maintenance model.
Malin Blomqvist and Cissela Génetay-Lindholm

How can a database full of Bugs help reconstruct the climate?
Phil Buckland and Paul Buckland

Pattern recognition applied to Rock Art.
Diego Diaz and Damián Castro

Creating of a database for prehistoric sites: which are the goals, the strategy and what means to put in place?
Pierre Corboud

The Computer Catalogue of the Kunstkammer Museum Collections and perspectives of an Internet-shared Anthropological Database.
Yuri Osintsov, Yuri Chistov and Dmitriy Gerasimov

Reclaiming Old Data: The Wasden Site Research Project.
E.S. Lohse and J. Anderson

The Archaeology-Palaeobotany-Palynology Database on the Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and early Neolithic sites of the Former USSR Area.
Yuri Stepanov, Galina Levkovskaya, Mikhail Anikovitch, Nikolai Anisutkin, Elena Beliaeva, Vladimir Shumkin, Veronika Stegantzeva, Vladimir Timofeev, Galina Sinitsyna, Anastassia Bogolubova and Andrey Stegantzev

Never under-estimate the power of a model.
Clive Robert Orton

Deriving ancient foot units from building dimensions: a statistical approach employing cosine quantogram analysis.
Jari Pakkanen

A Genetic Algorithm problem solver for Archaeology.
Carlos Reynoso and Edward Jezierski

Visualising the Neolithic transition in Europe.
Thembi Russell and James Steele

Archaeological databases: what are they and what do they mean?
Robert Schlader

The Use of Permutations to Explain the Hackness Cross Tree Rune Inscription.
Richard Sermon

The computer as a tool in a dialectical approach to data processing.
Maria Shinoto

Papers in the Posters and Workshops categories

Presentation of a Database for funerary Analysis and Proposals for its Increments and Developments.
Francesca Fulminante

A GIS Application for the study on water supply and draining system in the ancient capital cities in Japan.
Akihiro Kaneda and Susumu Morimoto

Bjäre and Bowland: Computer Applications in European Pathways to Cultural Landscapes, a Culture 2000 programme.
Jenny Nord Paulsson and Graham Fairclough

Ancient Mantineia’s Defence Network Reconsidered Through a GIS Approach.
S.Topouzi, A. Samnis, Y. Pikoulas, S. Mertikas, X. Frantzis and A. Giourou

Laser Scanning and Digital Close Range Photogrammetry for Capturing 3-d Archaeological Objects: a Comparison of Quality and Practicality.
Athanasios Velios and John P. Harrison

CAA 2001 Abstracts on CD

Abstracts in the GIS category.

Abstracts in the Virtual Reality and Digital Image Processing categories.

Abstracts in the Osteology category

Abstracts in the Internet Applications and Cultural Heritage Management categories.

Abstracts in the Survey and Mapping, Archaeometry, GPS and CAD categories.

Abstracts in the Database Applications and Statistics and Quantitative Methods categories.

Abstracts to workshops.

Abstracts to posters.