ETHNOGRAPHY BY ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Archaeologists: Cities deserve better treatment

Society & Culture[1] Society & Culture[1]Archaeology [2]Denmark [3]Videnskab.dk [4] Urban archaeology is one of our best archives of the development of society and people. Until now it has been neglected but this can and must change, say two archaeologists. Cities are some of the best archives we have of the development of people and societies, and so we should start treating them as such, says...

ArchaeoKM: Realizing Knowledge of the Archaeologists

The potentiality of ontology within the faculty of archaeology has recently been felt. However, the use of ontology is limited either within the data interoperability for data sharing within various heterogeneous platforms or data integration of heterogeneous dataset. Thus the full potentiality of ontology is still to be realized within the community of archaeology. We are developing a system “...

Tagged: Digital Photography and Archaeologists

By looking at both the formal and informal dissemination of archaeological photography this paper will examine the way that digital images are shared and recorded. The influence that this technology has had on working practice will be explored. Through the examination of images on Flickr and Facebook issues of user engagement and data quality will be discussed. This will then be compared agains...

Archaeologists and the Archival Record

Empirical Urban Theory for Archaeologists

I review several bodies of empirical urban theory relevant to the archaeological analysis of ancient cities. Empirical theory is a type of “middlerange theory” (following Robert Merton): sets of concepts and methods that are less abstract, and have greater empirical content, than high-level social theory. The categories of theory reviewed here include environment-behavior theory, architectural ...