This paper looks at the usability of XML for the electronic publication of field reports by commercial archaeological units. The field reports fall into the field of grey literature as they are produced as client reports by commercial units as part of the planning process and do not receive official publication or widespread dissemination. The paper uses a small commercial unit called ARCUS at ...

The photographs taken at excavation fields are one of most important materials. It is expected to digitize and save these photographs in the computer system because of difficulty of management to many photographs and losing color problem. We designed and implemented prototype of archaeological photograph library. The library is designed based on Dublin Core Metadata Element set and XML We descr...

Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) has recently gained a wide acceptance in the archaeological community as a method to quickly and accurately locate buried archaeological features, artifacts, and important cultural and geological strata in the near-surface. The GPR method has now become one of the primary tools for geophysical feature identification primarily because of its three-dimensional abili...

This paper reviews the results of more than a hundred small archaeological “test pit” excavations carried out in 2013 within four rural communities in eastern England. Each excavation used standardized protocols in a different location within the host village, with the finds dated and mapped to create a series of maps spanning more than 3500 years, in order to advance understanding of the spati...

During an archaeological excavation at a mediaeval monastery (Flor da Rosa, Crato, Portugal), a skeleton of a adult woman was found with two calcifications in the thoracic cage. The location and the macroscopic analysis of the calcifications allowed them to be assigned as pleural plaques. Spectrometric analysis and scanning electronic microscopy enabled to establish that it originated with an i...

The protection and conservation attempts of ancient monumental heritage of the city of Hierapolis of Phrygia, during the last few years, are more delineated than in the past as inevitably connected to the environment context, which is characterized by the more extended and significant limestone concretions phenomenon in the world. Studies, excavation works, ancient monuments restorations, carri...

The East Chia Sabz site is located on the bank of the Seymareh River in the middle of the Zagros Mountain chain. The site is among the few examples of the acramic Neolithic sites of the 8th millennium B.C. of Zagros which was archaeologically investigated during the rescue archaeological studies of the Seymareh dam. Numerous bullet-shaped cores were unearthed during the archaeological excavatio...

In this paper we will describe the design, construction and application of a wearable digital imaging project based on the PC/104 embedded PC board [1]. The systems for image capture, manipulation and communication will be presented and power-consumption, heat dissipation and user-interface design will be considered. The paper will also discuss the results of an archaeological field trial and d...