http://www.gisarch.com Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:48:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en About a year ago I posted a short blurb about an archaeology project I was working on that incorporated a SketchUp model. The model was not so much the focus, or even a requested, of the project, but the data and interest were there, so... I modeled. Briefly, the this ... http://www.gisarch.com/2007/04/13/archaeology-and-3d-model-of-areca-mill-valley-forge-pa/ Juan A. Barcelo, of the Quantitative Archaeology Lab at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona offers a handful of very interesting articles and power point presentations on his site. Navigate by using the headings on the left-hand side labeled Analisis Espacial (Spatial Analysis), Estadistica (Set Theory), Inteligencia Artificial (Artificial ... http://www.gisarch.com/2007/04/09/papers-on-neural-nets-and-virtual-reality-in-archaeology-english-and-en-espanol/ Google Earth Community user ATF strikes again with a wonderful textured and semi-transparent 3D model of King Tutankhamun's tomb. The Google Earth model (available here) stands above the location where Howard Carter discovered the tomb entrance in 1922. While Google Earth does not yet have the ability to ... http://www.gisarch.com/2007/04/06/new-3d-tomb-of-king-tutankhamun-for-google-earth/ During 2007 the ESRC, as part of the Historical Geographical Information Systems Research Network, is sponsoring a number of free seminars on the use of GIS to study the past. These will be led by Dr Ian Gregory, author of A Place in History: A Guide to Using GIS in Historical Research. Historical GIS ... http://www.gisarch.com/2006/10/06/free-historical-gis-seminar-york-28-february-2007/ Whew!! 4 days to the wedding, Floyd Landis won the Tour De France, and I took second in my biggest race of the year! Here is something interesting from the Geowanking list: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for papers - 2007 Association of American Geographers Annual Conference. 17-21 April 2007, San Francisco, California, USA. http://www.aag.org/annualmeetings/SF2007/ Google Earth ... http://www.gisarch.com/2006/07/25/google-earth-as-the-view-from-nowhere-symposium-at-association-of-american-geographers-conference-2007/ Although I have read that the first rule of blogging is not to apologize for infrequent posting, I'll do it anyway. With helping my fiance plan our wedding (10 days away!!!), the Tour De France, and the height of my racing season all coming together, plus a 9-5 work week, ... http://www.gisarch.com/2006/07/19/site-news-and-a-google-mapping-of-subversive-literature-readers/ Apparently this web map is a few years old (initially from 2002/2003), but I have just run across it for the first time and I think it still has great value. I-Sites: An Archaeological GIS and Database for Iowa Archaeology is created from a group project of the National Park Service, ... http://www.gisarch.com/2006/07/14/i-sites-an-archaeological-gis-and-database-for-iowa-archaeology/ This is a question I get every so often and the short answer is "Yes", but finding one can be a challenge. With an increasing number of GIS savvy archaeological students graduating from college and looking to apply their art to the trade, GIS specific positions are in demand. Knowing that ... http://www.gisarch.com/2006/07/12/are-there-jobs-for-gis-in-archaeology/ "Uncovering progress in FOSS-based archaeology", by M. Fioretti, in the title of an article published the other week in the trends section of NewsForge, the online newspaper for Linux and Opensource. If you are out of the know, like myself, FOSS is an acronym for "Free and Opensource Software" As detailed ... http://www.gisarch.com/2006/07/07/free-and-opensource-software-in-archaeology/ Sorry for the lack of posts over the 4th of July Holiday. My favorite fishing spot does not have Wi-Fi ;) Back to the posting... This is the title of a recent thread on the Online Archaeology forum that has drawn a great response with some interesting observations. The Discussion The thread started ... http://www.gisarch.com/2006/07/05/gis-undervalued-in-archaeology/ As part of the UK Archaeology Map, the folks at Online Archaeology have made available their catalog of United Kingdom archaeology data in KML format. Each of the layers represented on their map application, from World War era gun placements to 3rd century Roman Villas. In total, ... http://www.gisarch.com/2006/06/29/google-earth-kml-files-for-uk-military-archaeology-and-roman-villas/