Excava(c)tion in Vignale. Archaeology on stage, archaeology on the Web

Towards Web-scale Web Archaeology

Web-scale Web research is difficult. Information on the Web is vast in quantity, unorganized and uncatalogued, and available only over a network with varying reliability. Thus, Web data is difficult to collect, to store, and to manipulate efficiently. Despite these difficulties, we believe performing Web research at Web-scale is important. We have built a suite of tools that allow us to experim...

On Evolutionary Ecology, Selectionist Archaeology, and Behavioral Archaeology

A Distributed Hypermedia on Archaeology in Tuscany

The availability of sophisticated network environments offers the possibility of implementing distributed hypermedia. The peculiarities of the cultural heritage data raise some challenging difficulties. The paper discusses some of these problems and the related solutions. Finally, it describes a project of a distributed hypermedia on the archaeological heritage in Tuscany, illustrating the firs...

wither iranian archaeology an overview of the iranian perspective on theoretical archaeology

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Software Archaeology

some situation, trying to understand what you’re looking at and how it all fits together. To do this, you must be careful to preserve the artifacts you find and respect and understand the cultural forces that produced them. But we don’t have to wait a thousand years to try to comprehend unfathomable artifacts; code becomes legacy code just about as soon as it’s written, and suddenly we have exa...