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Digital Discovery. Exploring New Frontiers in Human Heritage. CAA2006. Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology.

Edited by Jeffrey, T. Clark, & Emily M. Hagemeister

Published by Archaeolingua, Budapest.

Contents

Introduction

Introduction to Digital Discovery: Exploring New Frontiers in Human Heritage
Jeffrey T. Clark

Social Modeling and Simulation

Social Modeling and Simulation Symposium
Mark Altaweel

The Hohokam Water Management Simulation: A Collaborative Model for Exploring Alternative pasts
John T. Murphy

Exploratory Agent-based Models: Towards an Experimental Ethnoarchaeology
L. S. Premo

Addressing the Structures and Dynamics of Modeled Human Ecologies
Mark Altaweel

Ethnic Boundary Maintenance and Historical Archaeology from an Agent-based Modeling Perspective
Brandon M. Gabler

TravellerSim: Growing Settlement Structures and Territories with Agent-Based Modeling
Shawn Graham and James Steiner

Network Analysis

Network Analysis in Archaeology Session Introduction: An Introduction to Network Analysis.
Gary Lock and John Pouncett

Network Analysis of Transport Vectors in Roman Baetica
Leif Isaksen

Urban Connectivity of Iberian and Roman Towns in Southern Spain: a Network Analysis Approach
Graeme Earl and Simon Keay

Using an Urban Street Network and a PGIS-T Approach to Analyze Ancient Movement
Scott Branting

A Vector-based Approach to the Integration of Geophysical and Test-pitting Data: Phasing the South Cadbury Environs Project
John Pouncett and Gary Lock

GIS-Based Regional Analysis

An Explanatory Framework for Predictive Modeling Using an Example from Marion, Horry, Dillon, and Marlboro Counties, South Carolina
Thomas G. Whitley and Gwendolyn Burns

From Landscape Archaeology to Social Archaeology. Finding Patterns to Explain the Development of Early Celtic "Princely Sites" in Middle Europe
Axel Posluschny

Watersheds as a Method for Reconstructing Regions and Territories in GIS
Daniel Löwenborg

Discerning Prehistoric Landscapes in Colorado and the Mesa Verde Region Using a Kernel Density Estimate (KDE) Method
Todd C. McMahon

Least-Cost Pathways, Exchange Routes, and Settlement Patterns in Late Prehistoric East-Central New Mexico
David C. Batten

Population Estimates at the Ancient Maya City of Chunchucmil, Yucatán, Mexico
Aline Magnoni

Mapping and Surveying the Archaeological Monuments of the Altai Mountains (Altai Republic) [CD ROM]
Jean Bourgeois, Alain De Wulf, Alexander V. Ebel, Wouter Gheyle, Rudi Goossens, and
Leon van Hoof

Predictive Modeling of the Indus Civilization Port Sites in the Gujarat: Site Location Through Rules-Based Predictive Modeling [CD ROM]
Roy Mathur

Detection of Body Dump Sites and Clandestine Burials: a GIS-Based Landscape Approach [CD ROM]
Hector A. Orengo

GIS Applications in Archaeology: Distribution Patterns of Early Iron Age Sites in Sri Lanka [CD ROM]
Suneetha Samarathunga

Visibility and Viewshed Studies

A Report on Geopatterns Software: Describing and Analyzing Large-scale Geometry between Chacoan and Natural Sites in the American Southwest
Dennis Doxtater

Human Modifications to the Landscape of Hunt and Sheep Mountains, Wyoming: Exploring Socially Constructed Space
Ralph J. Hartley and Anne M. Wolley Vawser

A Fresh View on the Nasca Lines: Investigating Geoglyph Visibility in Palpa (Ica, Peru)
Karsten Lambers and Martin Sauerbier

A GIS Analysis of the Location of Late-Eleventh-Century Castles in the Southeastern Midlands of England
Andrew G. Lowerre

Historical Analysis and Territory: A Contribution to the Study of the Defense of the City of Lisbon – The Peninsular Wars [CD ROM]
Helena Rua

Intra-Site Spatial Technologies

Precision, Accuracy, and the Fate of the Data: Experiments in Site Recording at Chersonesos, Ukraine
Adam Rabinowitz, Stuart Eve, and Jessica Trelogan

Stratigraphic modeling and 3D spatial analysis using photogrammetry and octree spatial decomposition
Hartmut Tschauner and Viviana Siveroni Salinas

Remote Sensing

Four Years of Remote Sensing at the Double Ditch State Historic Site, North Dakota
Kenneth L. Kvamme

Imaging Paleo-Landscapes with Downhole Susceptibility
Rinita A. Dalan and Dean Goodman

MIVIS Hyperspectral Sensors for the Detection and GIS Supported Interpretation of Subsoil Archaeological Sites
Arianna Traviglia5

Evaluating Paleochannels Using Interdisciplinary Methods in the Yazoo Basin of Northwest Mississippi [CD ROM]
Kelsey M. Lowe

Aerial Photography

An Evaluation of Google Earth for Archaeological Exploration and Survey
Scott Madry

Reconstructing Tebtunis: Assembling a Site Model Using Archived Aerial Photography
Todd Brenningmeyer and D. J. Ian Begg

Cultural Heritage Databases and Web-based Resources

Using a GIS-based Database as a Platform for Cultural Heritage Management of Sites and Monuments in Norway
Evy Berg

Integration of Heterogeneous Cultural Heritage Data in a Web-based Information System: A Case Study from Vianden Castle, Luxembourg
Élise Meyer, Pierre Grussenmeyer, Jean-Pierre Perrin, Anne Durand, Pierre Drap

PACHO—A Semantic P2P Network for Virtual-Reality-Based Heritage Objects and Resources
Martin White, Krzysztof Walczak, Wojciech Cellary, and Andrzej Prinke

Towards a Web-based Environment for Italian Prehistory and Protohistory
Glauco Mantegari, Maurizio Cattani, Raffaele C. De Marinis, and Giuseppe Vizzari

A Project for the Management and the Publication of the University of Milan’s Egyptological Archives [CD ROM]
Glauco Mantegari1 and Patrizia Piacentini

Our Living Archaeological Heritage: A Portrayal of Mankind [CD ROM]
Mercedes Farjas, Pedro Merino, Manuel Sillero, Jesús M. Jimenez, Nieves Quesada, and Ruben Barakat

The Database of the Archaeological Heritage of the Timis County [CD ROM]
Dorel Micle

Typological Repertory and Spatial Distribution of Gray Coarse Ware from Southwestern Dacia, IIIrd and IVth Centuries AD, with 3D and GIS Content [CD ROM]
Dorel Micle, Adrian Cintar, and Marcel Torok

Approaches to Web Access to Aerial Photos held at the NMRC [CD ROM]
Helen Shalders

Window on Wiltshire’s Heritage: A View of Heritage Website Sustainability [CD ROM]
Helen Shalders

A CIDOC CRM-Base Ontology System [CD ROM]
Federica Dentamaro, Paolo G. De Luca, Ludovico Genco, Giulia Perrino, Chiara Cannito, Mariannunziata A. Stufano, and Maria G. Sibilano

CIDOC CRM and Folksong [CD ROM]
Stephen Stead and Gregor Strle

Triple O (Ontology Of Ontology): A Digital Data Survey for Japanese Archaeology (JAD2) [CD ROM]
Go Sugimoto

XML Based Visualization in Archaeology [CD ROM]
Holly E. Wright6

Machine Learning and Classification

Computer Vision and Machine Learning for Archaeology
Laurens van der Maaten, Paul Boon, Guus Lange, Hans Paijmans, and Eric Postma

Predicting Regional Classification of Levantine Ivory Sculptures: A Machine Learning Approach
Amy Rebecca Gansell, Irene K.Tamaru, Aleks Jakulin, and Chris H. Wiggins

Geometric Modeling of Indian Archaeological Pottery: A Preliminary Study [CD ROM]
Vinod Nautiyal, Vandana Dixit Kaushik, Vinay Kumar Pathak, S. G. Dhande, Sudhir Nautiyal, Mohan Naithani, Sanjeev Juyal, Rahul Kumar Gupta, Ashish Kumar Vasisth, Krishna Kumar Verma, Anand Singh

Feature Extraction from 3D Data for the Modeling of Any Input Artifact/Sculpture to Support Its Identification [CD ROM]
Vandana Dixit Kaushik, Rahul Gupta, Anand Singh, Ashish Kumar Vasisth, Krishna Kumar Verma, Vinay Pathak

Morphometric Analysis

Computer-assisted Morphometry of Digital Images: Beyond Typology in the Morphological Analysis of the Broad Spectrum of Archaeomaterials
Irwin Rovner

On Extracting and Comparing the Shapes of Projectile Points
Ralph E. Chapman, Nicholas Clement, Robert Schlader, and Christian Petersen

3D Spatial Measurement Tools for Digitized Artifacts [CD ROM]
Can Ozmen and Selim Balcisoy

3D Modeling

Evaluation of Artificial Cranial Deformations on 3D Pre-Incas Mummified Skulls
Massimiliano Fantini, Francesca De Crescenzio, Franco Persiani, Stefano Benazzi, Elena Tazzari, and Giorgio Gruppioni

3D Acquisition of Archaeological Ceramics and Web-based 3D Data Storage
Martin Kampel, Robert Sablatnig, Hubert Mara, and Martin Lettner

Three-Dimensional Scanning of Archeological Objects for Research, Outreach, and Specimen Archiving: Potentials and Responsibilities [CD ROM]
Christian Petersen, Robert Schlader, Ralph E. Chapman, Linda T. Deck, Nicholas Clement, Richard Heydt

Virtual Reality Environments

Why Do Virtual Heritage?
Donald Sanders

White Water Shaker Village: Exploring Historical Photographs as Data Sources for Virtual Reconstructions
Jose M. Kozan and Lara Beduschi Kozan

Resemblance of the Once Existing
Ferenc Traser

Virtual Museography for an Archaeological Site [CD ROM]
Rocio Ruiz-Rodarte, Jesús Savage-Carmona, and Ramón Carrasco

Field Applications

Conception of an Integrated System for Archaeological Excavations
Michel Fortin and Bernard Lachance7

Maritime Applications

Three-dimensional Underwater Mapping: The Kizilburun Excavation
Alexis Catsambis

Simulating Sea Surfaces for Modeling Viking Age Seafaring in the Baltic Sea
George Indruszewski and C. M. Barton

Statistical Analysis

Testing Spatial Patterns and Hypotheses at Minoan Palaikastro, Crete
Piraye Haciguzeller

The Inventory of the Getic Necropolis – Statistical Analysis [CD ROM]
Angelica Bălos and Mircea Cosma