Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology 1990

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Front Cover Copyright Contents List of Figures Preface 1. Using public communication services for archaeological applications 2. SyGraf — resource based teaching with graphics 3. Every picture tells a story: 'The Archaeology Disc' and its implications 4. Putting the public in the picture: an interactive video applications generator 5. LIVE update: archaeological courseware using interactive video 6. Matrix processing of stratigraphic graphs: a new method 7. The computer representation of space in urban archaeology 8. SQL and hypertext generation of stratigraphic adjacency matrices 9. A new graph theoretic oriented program for Harris Matrix analysis 10. The ArcheoDATA System - towards a European archaeological document 11. Practical considerations for long term data conservation and analysis 12. How safe is your data? 13. Procuring medium-large systems in the public sector — the experience of the English Heritage Record of Scheduled Monuments 14. The operational requirement for a medium to large-scale system — the experience of the new English heritage record of scheduled monuments 15. A computational Bayes approach to some common archaeological problems 16. Some statistical problems arising in radiocarbon calibration 17. Graphical modelling of archaeological data 18. Statistical analysis of ceramic assemblages — a year's progress 19. A technique for reducing the size of sparse contingency tables 20. An approach to quantifying window glass 21. Towards a virtual archaeology 22. Furness Abbey survey project — The application of computer graphics and data visualisation to reconstruction modelling of an historic monument 23. Images, databases and edge detection for archaeological object drawings 24. Visualisation of sherd movement in the plough zone 25. Integrating spatial information in computerised Sites and Monuments Records: meeting archaeological requirements in the 1990s 26. Terrain modelling, deposit survival and urban archaeology 27. Computer and hardware modelling of archaeological sediment transport on hillslopes 28. Simulating coin hoard formation 29. Formal methods for the analysis of archaeological data: data analysis vs expert systems 30. Palamede — application of expert systems to the archaeology of prehistoric urban civilisations