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Big Archaeological Data. The ArchAIDE project approach
Full text linkDigitisation has changed archaeology deeply and has increased exponentially the amount of data that could be processed, but it does not by itself involve datafication, which is the act of transforming something (objects, processes, etc.) into a quantified format, so they can be tabulated and analysed. Datafication fits a Big Data approach and promises to go significantly beyond digitisation. To datafy archaeology would mean to produce a flow of data starting from the data produced by the archaeological practice, for instance, locations, interactions and relations between finds and sites. The ArchAIDE project goes exactly in this direction. ArchAIDE is a H2020 funded project (2016-2019) that will realise a tool for recognising archaeological potsherds; a web-based real-time data visualization to generate new understanding; an open archive to allow the archival and re-use of ar-chaeological data. This process would move archaeology towards data-driven research and Big Data
La documentazione scritta nella ricognizione archeologica sul territorio: un “vecchio” sistema di schedatura
No full textLa credenza. Associazioni di materiali, memorie e relazioni in un contesto ceramico contemporaneo
Full text linkIn our houses, there are thousands of objects and objects within objects. The analysis of a present-day domestic assemblage inside a kitchen cupboard composed of mugs, coffee cups, teacups, and breakfast bowls, performed by the owners themselves, is the opportunity to reflect on the role and agency of the objects in ordinary life and more in general of the archaeology of the present age. The study is addressed both through a quantitative, analytical approach based on building a systematic catalogue and a qualitative one based on ethnographic observations and informal conversations. The paper stresses the concepts of proximity and familiarity to their extreme. It investigates the entanglement and entrapment between humans and non-humans created by the dependence/dependency built by memory and care. The density of the objects, as well as
the endowment effect, are taken into consideration to address the multiple relationships between things and things, things and humans, and humans and humans. The stories that personal and family memories can attribute to objects could become a parameter capable of making us prefer the oldness instead of the newness, stimulating a sense of responsibility towards the role we play concerning all the non-human and within what we could foresee as a necessary post-anthropocentric revolution process. Here the impelling necessity to drive Italian archaeology and anthropology to work together to improve the understanding of the present
Camaiore (LU). Insediamento fortificato di Montecastrese: campagna di scavo 2008
No full textRelazione della campagna di scavo 2008 sul sito dell'insediamento fortificato di Montecastres
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