Big Data and Archaeology
Proceedings of the XVIII UISPP World Congress (4-9 June 2018, Paris, France) Volume 15, Session III-1
edited by François Djindjian and Paola Moscati. Paperback; 205x290mm;
106 pages; 33 figures, 1 table (colour throughout). Papers in English
and French. 761 2021. Available both in print and Open Access. Printed ISBN 9781789697216. Epublication ISBN 9781789697223.
Big Data and Archaeology presents
the papers from two sessions of the 18th UISPP World Congress (Paris,
June 2018): Session III-1 (CA): ‘Big data, databases and archaeology’,
and Session III-1 (T): ‘New advances in theoretical archaeology’. The
advent of Big Data is a recent and debated issue in Digital Archaeology.
Historiographic context and current developments are illustrated in
this volume, as well as comprehensive examples of a multidisciplinary
and integrative approach to the recording, management and exploitation
of excavation data and documents produced over a long period of
archaeological research. In addition, specific attention is paid to
neoprocessual archaeology, as a new platform aimed at renewing the
theoretical framework of archaeology after thirty years of
post-modernism, and to the refinement of the concept of archaeological
cultures, combining processual, contextual and empirical approaches.
About the Editors
François Djindjian is ancien professeur at the University
of Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne (chair of archaeological methods and
theory) and associate member of the CNRS UMR 7041. He is President of
the International Union for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences
(UISPP), member of the executive committee of the International Council
for Philosophy and Human Sciences (CIPSH) of Unesco, and delegate member
of the International Academic Union (UAI).
Paola Moscati is research director at the Institute of Heritage
Science of the National Research Council of Italy. As an archaeologist,
specialised in computer applications in archaeology, she is Vice
President of the UISPP Commission IV, editor in chief of the
international journal ‘Archeologia e Calcolatori’ and scientific
coordinator of the international project ‘The Virtual Museum of
Archaeological Computing’, jointly promoted with the Accademia Nazionale
dei Lincei.
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