Archaeological Science Classroom Activities: A free multi-lingual pedagogical resource in archaeological science

Integrating archaeological literature into resource discovery interfaces

There exists a large and underutilized resource of archaeological literature, both formal, such as scholarly journals and less formal in the form of ‘grey literature’. In the archaeological domain the vast majority of this literature contains some geo-spatial element as well as the expected temporal information and therefore its ease of discovery would be greatly enhanced were it accessible via...

An Archaeological Resource Assessment of Medieval Nottinghamshire

There are 893 sites belonging to the Middle Ages currently recorded in the Notts SMR. Amongst these may be noted 16 castles, 15 monastic sites, 87 DMVs and SMVs (both certain and alleged), 72 moated sites, 117 fishponds (of which 37 are certainly mediaeval), 23 houses, 195 churches and 32 chapels. To these may be added the 395 or so communities or villages mentioned in Domesday Book where we ha...

An Archaeological Resource Assessment of Roman Northamptonshire

The Northamptonshire sites and monuments record currently contains 1573 records related to the Roman period, which constitutes 22.5% of the total. A large proportion of the undated cropmark sites are, however, also likely to be Roman and/or Iron Age in date and should be added to this total. In Northamptonshire this period is characterized by intensively occupied and large scale rural landscape...

Historical antecedents to archaeological resource management

ArchaeoKM: Managing Archaeological data through Archaeological Knowledge

Nowadays, the use of ontologies in the field of the archaeology is a new direction of research that is not fully tested. Some results are very encouraging and challenge the vision of archaeological sites which cannot be modeled semantically. Most of the researches based on ontology technologies in the archaeology domain are based on the research of finding on a common ground for the interoperab...