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...

Mike Parker Pearson1, Joshua Pollard2, Colin Richards3, Julian Thomas3, Chris Tilley4 and Kate Welham5 1 Department of Archaeology, University of Sheffield< 2 Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Bristol, [email protected]< 3 School of Arts, Histories and Cultures, University of Manchester< 4 Department of Anthropology, University College London< 5 School of Co...

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This paper examines the role of geospatial technologies in the development of non-invasive archaeological research methods and relates this development to the expansion of an innovative sub-discipline: ‘conflict archaeology’. Archaeology is predicated on the principle that human behaviour leaves behind physical evidence that is patterned, recoverable and interpretable; while warfare and conflic...