Category Archives: geospatial

AquaTerra on GitHub

Posted on April 21, 2015 by James Newhard

Newhard, Levine, and Phebus (2014) presented a LCP model that incorporated both terrestrial and marine costs to assist in exploring the connectivity between places. Developed in ArcGIS ModelBuilder, the initial model was streamlined by Nicola Buescher, Christina Carmack, Caleb Whitaker, Zach Campbell … Continue reading →

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Reflections on the EAA 2013 Roundtable on “Ephemeral Landscapes”

Posted on January 1, 2014 by Jim Newhard

In September, the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) held its meetings in Pilsen, Czech Republic.  I attended this meeting, and participated in a roundtable on ‘Ephemeral Landscapes,’ organized by Martijn vanLeusen, Andrew Bevan, Kayt Armstrong, and Wieke deNeef.  The workshop … Continue reading →
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Publishing archaeology in the 3rd and 4th dimensions.

Posted on November 8, 2013 by James Newhard

Read Andrew Reinhard’s post in Bill Caraher’s series on 3D applications in Mediterranean Archaeology.  Very good ideas to consider.

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Three Dimensional Field Recording in Archaeology: An Example from Gabii

Posted on September 19, 2013 by Jim Newhard

Reblogged from The Archaeology of the Mediterranean World: This is the first in a series of posts exploring 3D modeling in Mediterranean and European archaeology. For more on this project click here. We hope these papers will start a discussion either … Continue reading →
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Three Dimensional Imaging in Mediterranean Archaeology: A Short Introduction to a Blog Project

Posted on September 9, 2013 by Jim Newhard

Reblogged from The Archaeology of the Mediterranean World: Over the past half decade, Mediterranean and Old World archaeology has entered a bold new world of inexpensive three-dimensional documentation. Using photogrammetry software like Agisoft Photoscan, increasingly powerful laptop computers, low-cost drones … Continue reading →
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Managing Archaeological Data in the Digital Age: Best Practices and Realities

Posted on February 4, 2013 by Jim Newhard

Reblogged from The Archaeology of the Mediterranean World: This past week, Deb Brown, who co-organized our panel at the Archaeological Institute of America’s annual meeting made the talks available on the YouTubes. All the papers were very solid on this … Continue reading →
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Free GIS workshop in Lancaster

Posted on February 4, 2013 by Jim Newhard

Reblogged from Archaeological Networks: The Spatial Humanities team in Lancaster is organising a free two-day workshop in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for postgraduate students and early career researchers. The intensive two-day course does not require any prior knowledge on GIS … Continue reading →
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Digital Classicist London 2013: Call for Papers

Posted on January 26, 2013 by Jim Newhard

From the Stoa Consortium: Call for Papers January 24th, 2013 by Gabriel Bodard The Digital Classicist London seminar series, which provides a forum for research into the ancient world that employs digital research methods, invites submissions for Summer 2013. We … Continue reading →
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AIA 2013 Meeting, Seattle WA

Posted on January 6, 2013 by Jim Newhard

I am sitting in the Sheraton’s bar, watching the Seattle/Washington game (and geekily enough, blogging).  Will write a short note now, just to say that the times spent discussing the state of geospatial studies in archaeology formed some of the … Continue reading →
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Landscape Research Centre

Posted on February 28, 2012 by Jim Newhard

The Landscape Research Centre Atlas of the Archaeology of the Vale of Pickering (http://www.landscaperesearchcentre.org/atlas/LRC_Atlas.html) presents “…the interpretations of more than three decades of landscape observation and research using air-photography and geophysics to map the archeaology of parts of the Vale … Continue reading →
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