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

The Statistics Lesson: Archaeology and Statistics
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.

Archcomp-L
  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".

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

Bulletin of Information on Computing and Anthropology
Complete articles, beginning with the 1984 issue up to the 1992 issue; it is unclear how active this site is.

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

Computed Tomography
The use of scanning technology in artifact investigation, from Hebrew University.

Computer Image Analysis
From Heather Gray at Mississippi State University, a paper on computer assisted recording of lithic attributes.

Digital Archaeology
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.

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

DigMaster: Figurine Database
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.

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

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

HEIRPORT
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.

Learning Sites
Digitally reconstructed ancient worlds for interactive education and research.

Modelling the Lion Temple, Musawwarat it Sufra, Sudan
Steffen Kirchner and Oskar Bohuszewicz of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, a computer model of Sudanese architecture. In German.

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

TFQA: Tools for Quantitative Archaeology
Keith Kintigh's statistical package specifically tailored for archaeological studies is available in individual or site licenses.

The Corinth Computer Project
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.

Univ. of Sydney School of Archaeology
Projects from the University of Sydney's Archaeology Computing Laboratory; always interesting and inventive.

Video-recording as Part of the Critical Archaeological Process
A paper given at the 1996 Theoretical Archaeology Group meetings by Dagmar Cee, Martin Emele and Lothar Spree (Karlsruhe) on the construction of the virtual reality Çatalhöyük.