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Internet Archaeology 7
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Internet Archaeology 7
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Internet Archaeology
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7
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Judith Winters
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1999
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20 Jan 2002
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Editorial - Fish remains and humankind III
Andrew K G Jones
Rebecca A Nicholson
Editorial for three papers on fish remains and humankind taken from the 1987 meeting of the International Council for Archaeozoologists Fish Remains Working Group.
BCal: an on-line Bayesian radiocarbon calibration tool
Caitlin E Buck
J A Christen
Gary N James
Describes newly launched software for on-line Bayesian calibration of archaeological radiocarbon determinations. The software is known as BCal and members of the world-wide archaeological research community are invited to make use of it. All that is required to gain access to the software is a computer connected to the Internet with a modern World-wide Web browser. BCal does not require access to any additional `Plug-ins'. The computations needed to obtain the calibrations are undertaken on the BCal server; if you have enough computer power to run your World-wide Web browser you have enough power to use BCal.
Navigating Leskernick; a guide for website seers
Paul Basu
Presents a short, informal, navigational tour of the Leskernick Project web site. The article should be read in parallel with pages from the Leskernick site. Information provided there is not repeated but is commented on.
A virtual tomb for Kelvingrove; virtual reality, archaeology and education
Melissa M Terras
The use of computers as an educational resource in museums is becoming increasingly popular as more and more institutions realise that multimedia displays are very successful in imparting a broad variety of information. Although three--dimensional reconstructions of sites and structures have been used in archaeology for many years the majority of museum computer installations have dealt with two--dimensional media because of the costs, equipment and labour involved in producing interactive 3D scenes. The birth of VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) has changed the way virtual reality is implemented and viewed. As an internet protocol, VRML can be used on most major platforms and implemented by anyone with a word--processing package, an internet browser, and the relevant plug--in. There is no reason why this new technology cannot be adopted by archaeologists and museums to produce virtual reality models of structures, sites and objects to aid the research of specialists and the education of the public. This project (undertaken at the Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute, University of Glasgow, Scotland, between May and October 1998) investigated the practicalities involved in using VRML to create a virtual reality model for use in a public space. A model of the Egyptian tomb of Sen--nedjem was developed for installation in the Egyptian Gallery of the Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery, Glasgow, in the hope that the introduction of this computer display would encourage the museum visitor's interest in the gallery's existing artefacts. Creation of the model would also investigate the possibility of using VRML to build accurate archaeological reconstructions cheaply and efficiently using publicly available software and existing archaeological resources. A fully functioning virtual reality model of the tomb of Sen--nedjem has been created, incorporating interactive elements, photorealistic representation, and animation, and the model can be seen in this article. However, because of technical problems as well as the educational issues raised, it was felt that the model was not suitable in this format for inclusion in the Kelvingrove Museum. The project has illustrated that although it is technically possible to create an archaeologically based virtual model using VRML, technical issues prevent this format from being a feasible way of displaying 3D worlds in a museum environment at present. The project has also shown that the creation of the virtual reality world is only the beginning of developing a virtual reality display for use in education. Both the user interface and the informative aspects of a model have to be carefully designed to ensure the resulting computer display has proven educational worth, and broad issues surrounding the nature of representation and reconstruction have to be addressed before such models will become commonplace in museums (see also 2000/219).
One good site deserves another; electronic publishing in field archaeology
Karen Walford
John Gray
This paper considers the current state of electronic publication in archaeology and the shortcomings of existing search tools on the web. An XML--based approach to creating `structured site descriptions' is then proposed.
Excavation publication and the internet
Caroline R Wickham-Jones
The author describes her experience of writing up an excavation report for publication on the Internet. Records relating to the ways in which Internet publications are used and read and the relative merits and drawbacks of the use of the Internet for the publication of excavation data are presented and discussed.
The Excavation of a Monastic Fishing Establishment at Oldstead Grange, North Yorkshire
Richard L Kemp
Excavations directed by the writer in 1982-3 for the University of York Archaeological Society uncovered the foundations of a small structure on the shores of a fishpond that belonged to Byland Abbey in the 14th century. The site's location, combined with a number of associated lead net weights, suggest that it was connected with organised, large-scale, fish farming.
Review of A Compendium of Pevsner's Buildings of England
Malcolm R Airs
Review of CD-Rom A Compendium of Pevsner's Buildings of England, compiled by Michael Good and published by OUP.
Walking the cod; an investigation into the relative robustness of c...
Andrew K G Jones
A simple experiment is described which details what happens to the bones of cod when they are walked on by a man. The pattern of fragmentation for various elements is illustrated and an index of robustness proposed for those elements in a cod skeleton most frequently recovered from archaeological sites.
Fish Remains from Excavations near the Riverfront at Newcastle upon Tyne, England
Rebecca A Nicholson
The City of Newcastle, situated some 10 miles inland on the River Tyne in north-east England, is not now an important fishing port. Most of the fresh fish marketed in the city has been landed at the nearby coastal ports of North and South Shields. Excavations at two sites behind the present Quayside in Newcastle, however, have yielded quantities of fish bones, representing a wide variety of species. This is in contrast to excavations in other parts of the city, where few fish remains have been recovered, and suggests that the quayside in Newcastle was an important centre for the fishing industry during the medieval period. It seems likely that most of the fish remains represent waste from landing and processing fish on or near the quayside. Yet, when taphonomic factors are taken into account, the limitations of using even large bone assemblages to interpret processing activities is demonstrated. As always, the need for a programme of on-site sieving to obtain representative samples of fish bone is evident.
Editorial
Judith Winters
Editorial for Issue 7