The entire set of operations involved in investigating, recording, handling and protecting the Cultural Heritage by a series of institutions, agencies, associations, administrators and individuals. CRM is nowadays intended in a wider meaning, as it includes not only artifacts and monumental structures but also all the traces that the past has left in and around the human habitat.
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GIS Use in Landscape Archaeology
Cristina Corsi (Università di Cassino, Italy)
Copyright: © 2009
|Pages: 9
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-845-1.ch045
Abstract
Information technologies (ITs) entered and irreversibly changed the discipline of archaeology during the last 20 years of the second millennium. The first experiments involved databases and alphanumeric data processing, then in the late 1980s GPS technologies, associated with spatial data processing, were first tested to locate archaeological objects in the geographical space. Computer-aided design (CAD) software has progressively replaced the traditional procedures of topographical and architectural design, while “New Archaeology” and “Processual Archaeology” focusing their attention on the quantitative aspects of phenomena (Binford, 1989; Binford & Binford, 1968; Clarke, 1968; Clarke, 1977) adopted “spatial technologies”, consisting of computer-based applications concerned with the acquisition, storage and manipulation of spatial information (Wheatley & Gillings, 2002).