The diversity and survival of both documentary and physical evidence from this period introduces specific challenges for archaeologists, not least because the role of fieldwork may be viewed as a secondary means of confirming or enhancing historically-based perspectives. Equally, opinions differ about the term ‘Industrial Revolution’ (Clark 1999), and for this reason ‘the archaeology of industr...

A keynote presentation at the 2012 Computer Applications in Archaeology (CAA) conference in Southampton (UK) proposed the use of grand challenges as a vehicle for identifying and pursuing major advances in Digital Archaeology. At the same time, it was argued that this should be a collaborative venture. This was taken forward at a round table session at the 2014 CAA in Paris, and a number of pap...

Select at random an issue of American Antiquity from the past 15 years. Chances are good that you will find at least one article or report in the table of contents that focuses on the archaeology of California. Recent research in the Golden State and adjacent regions has been highly influential in two main areas: the archaeology of prehistoric hunter-gatherers and innovative historic archaeolog...

On August 2004, the SPC-II robofish, developed by the Robotics Institute in Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, was used for aiding underwater archaeology in an experiment at the shipwreck site of Donggu gulf in Dongshan Island, Fujian Province. This experiment is not only the combination achievement of many subjects such as bionics, robotics, archaeology, oceanology, and so on,...

The utilization of virtual worlds as a research and collaborative practice is rapidly growing in archaeology, although largely restricted to prehistoric and monumental sites. This article outlines the application of virtual technologies to the historic site of Rosewood, Florida. In addition to reviewing a wide range of creation and delivery methods for virtual content, the author discusses the ...

This paper explores the intersection of two fields of research: autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), and archaeology in the deep sea. Archaeology in the deep sea poses a range of difficult, interesting problems for autonomous underwater vehicles. These include broad area sonar searches, target identification, and precision survey. Broad area sonar searches for archaeology have requirements si...

The essays in this volume provide insight into the range of theoretical issues and topical debates of concern to archaeologists currently studying the Mesoamerican societies that flourished in Mexico and Central American prior to European contact and Spanish conquest in the sixteenth century. But what is meant by the term Mesoamerica, and why do we group together essays on widely separated site...

Looking back over the last three decades of Roman archaeology I find it difficult not to be impressed by the huge advances the discipline had made. The quantity of information collected has increased enormously. Romanists have enthusiastically embraced new archaeological technologies, and entire new subject areas landscape archaeology, palaeopathology, and underwater archaeology for instance ha...

The University Grants Committee and the Computer Board have funded 139 projects in Bntish Umversities as part of their Computers in Teaching Initiative. Two projects have been accepted m archaeology, a joint Southampton/York project on simulating an excavation and an mvestigation at Leicester into the use of interactive videodiscs for teaching archaeology to undergraduates. This paper introduce...