Tag Archives: Archaeoinformatics

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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Contributions to the SAA Blog Carnival: The Good, Bad, and Ugly of Blogging.

Posted on January 1, 2014 by James Newhard

As a prelude to the Society for American Archaeology panel on blogging at their annual meeting in April, a blogging archaeology carnival is being operated from Doug’s Archaeology.  Every month, participants are asked to write on a particular theme, using … Continue reading →

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Archaeology, Humanities, and Data Science

Posted on August 1, 2013 by James Newhard

I’m going to get on a soapbox, here.  I hope that this elicits some debate/discussion/verbal thinking aloud by others. I was recently forwarded a posting from LinkedIn,[1] which, like many, discusses the coming wave of needs for data scientists.  The amount of … Continue reading →

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Three-Dimensional Modeling in Mediterranean Archaeology: An Open Invitation

Posted on July 30, 2013 by Jim Newhard

Reblogged from The Archaeology of the Mediterranean World: The positive response to my call for blog posts on issues centered on 3D modeling in Mediterranean archaeology has continued. For recent posts on this topic see here, here, and here. My motivation … Continue reading →
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Exploring Ancient and Modern Land Use

Posted on August 7, 2012 by James Newhard

The College of Charleston welcomes Peter Bikoulis from the University of Toronto, in town this week to consult with Jim Newhard and Norm Levine on his work combining multispectral satellite imagery with Ottoman and modern census data to tease out … 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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Avkat Informatics continues facelift

Posted on June 11, 2012 by James Newhard

The Avkat Informatics development blog has been relatively active. I link to the recent entry and show the image, as a means to show progress (a more detailed image can be found on their entry).  More frequent updates can be accessed … Continue reading →

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Introduction

Posted on May 21, 2012 by James Newhard

This blog is being started for several reasons. to inform the general archaeoinformatic community about initiatives and research being undertaken at the College of Charleston to encourage discussion, comment, and potential collaboration with others in the archaeoinformatic community about our … Continue reading →

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