Digital Archaeology Article Swipe
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· 2022
· Open Access
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· DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/itit-2022-0061
· OA: W4308426176
Research in history spans the incredible time span of 5.300 years allowing insights in many aspects of the changes and constants in culture.However, the written word might not always tell the truth nor is it available for all regions and time periods.So archaeologists investigate material remains and create insights into wide variety of topics like production techniques, trade, migration, climate change and many more.As archaeological research is related to the Humanities it organizes itself typically according to certain regions and/or time periods starting with prehistory, which is probably closest to natural science in contrast to classical archaeology having a strong bias towards art history.Having adopted mathematical and statistical methods in substantial amounts for archaeological research the path for including computer science was prepared quite early.This can be dated at least to the 1960's introducing a New Archaeology by Lewis R. Binford and David L. Clarke as well as early works by Clive Orton and Nick Ryan.These formative years continue in the early 1970 s where a small group of archaeologists and mathematicians founded the Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA) group.It organized its first annual conference in 1973 in the United Kingdom.From this on the CAA became gradually an international association with a German chapter founded in 1981 having its own workshops since 2010.In recent years more national chapters were founded, which have an important role to acquaint students of archaeology to digital methods.Due to this organic growth terms like Archaeoinformatics, Computational and Digital Archaeology have been rather coined than defined.By present day the latter seems to be the more prominent and overarching.As archaeological research with digital methods in focus has steadily increased the teaching curricula has changed more subtly than in the Digital Humanities.One could say that there is less hype about digital methods in archaeology, which can be seen in the denominations and
