Tag Archives: Aegean Prehistory

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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Linear B Archives Project in Full Swing

Posted on June 21, 2013 by James Newhard

This post will be a brief introduction to an ongoing project, currently in field data collection.   As announced nearly a year ago, a small team, under the direction of Dimitri Nakassis (Toronto) and Kevin Pluta (Charleston), is involved with the … Continue reading →

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Formal Publication of Pylian Linear B Tablets to Occur

Posted on June 27, 2012 by James Newhard

As announced by the Department of Classics at the College of Charleston, Dr. Dimitri Nakassis (Toronto) and Dr. Kevin Pluta (Charleston)  will be directing the formal publication of the Linear B tablets from Pylos, originally excavated by Carl Blegen begun in 1939.  The project will … Continue reading →

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Developing Methods in High Resolution 3D Image Capture for Ancient Tablets

Posted on June 18, 2012 by James Newhard

This summer I hope to provide updates on work being conducted by Kevin Pluta who is investigating and developing methods for reflectance transformation imaging (RTI), specifically tied to inscribed clay tablets.  His work, building off of work being done at … Continue reading →

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Modeling Communication Routes Over Land and Sea

Posted on May 29, 2012 by James Newhard

In an ongoing effort to announce the initiatives occurring in Archaeoinformatics at the Santee Cooper GIS Lab, work is nearing completion on a project that models least cost paths in environments that require the integration of terrestrial and marine costs. … Continue reading →

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