Computers and Quantitative Methods

A wiki and community portal for anybody interested in archaeological computing.

Archaeology has a continuing romance with statistics. Are we a science, or merely social science looking for some credibility? Fellow graduate students Luke and Katie helped this student of archaeology figure out the real problem.

  Computational archaeology, specifically all aspects of computing and archaeology: database design, software and hardware concerns, GIS, CAD, Web applications, and multimedia. To subscribe, send email to listserv@LISTSERV.ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU<0link> and in the body of the message, put :sub archcomp-l Firstname Lastname".

This company produces three-dimensional plans of archaeological sites; the website has a very interesting example from Ulm.

Complete articles, beginning with the 1984 issue up to the 1992 issue; it is unclear how active this site is.

Center for the Electronic Reconstruction of Historical and Archaeological Sites, at the University of Cincinnati; with a philosophical concept called "mutual reality."

The German visual computer firm Digital Archaeology, led by archaeologist Dietrich Rothacher, is working on some wonderfully vivid 3-dimensional representations of places in the past.

An AHDS Guide to Good Practice, this site makes concrete suggestions about what information should be kept from archaeological excavations.

The Cobb Institute at Mississippi State University is experimenting with publishing entire site databases on the web. This example contains photographs, descriptions, and catalog data for every one of the figurines recovered from Tell Halif, southern Israel.

Everything you've always wanted to know about ANOVA/MANOVA, cluster analysis, factor analysis, etc.

An electronic database on the habitat range of animals in the United States during the past 40,000 years.

HEIRPORT is the Historic Environment Information Resources Portal, and as we've come to expect from the Archaeological Data Service, an innovative use of the web to access several databases at once, for information about the archaeology and history of the United Kingdom.

Digitally reconstructed ancient worlds for interactive education and research.

Mark Lehner of the Oriental Institute discusses his reconstruction of the Giza plateau as it might have looked when first built.

Keith Kintigh's statistical package specifically tailored for archaeological studies is available in individual or site licenses.

A computerized architectural and topographical survey of the Roman colony of Corinth, compiled by members of the Mediterranean Section of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania.