The Need for Archaeologists

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 ...

Archaeologists and the Archival Record

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 “...

The SHAPE Lab : New Technology and Software for Archaeologists

The SHAPE Lab was recently established (1999), with a grant from the United States National Science Foundation, by Brown University Departments of Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science and The Center for Old World Archaeology and Art and Department of Anthropology. It is a significant interdisciplinary effort for scientific research with a direct application to important problems i...

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...