Week 1 Introduction to course, lab hardware, World Wide Web and e-mail. Introduction to course. Introduction to Windows NT operating systems. Readings: Ross 1-11. Take home assignment: Role playing essay, due at start of next class.
(Lecture
1 notes and on-line materials)
Week 2 Introduction to Databases What are databases and what are they used for, student discussion;. Learn how to import and manipulate data using the Excel spreadsheet as a primitive database paradigm; using a small selection of objects define observations to record and structures for recording data into the database.
Reading: Ross pp. 97-126 and 153-200.
(Lecture
2 notes and on-line materials)
Week 3 Conceptual process in database design. Thought processes for design of the Arkansas Archaeological Survey's DELOS and AMASDA systems.
Readings Carr, C., editor, For Concordance in Archaeological Analysis
1985 p. 87-113, Hilliard, Jerry and John Riggs, AMASDA Site Encoding
Manual, AAS Technical Paper No 1. Cande, Cathy, Delos Manual,
AAS Technical Manual.
(Lecture
3A notes and on-line material)
Week 4 Database practicum Utilize AMASDA to obtain information about Middle Fork area. Create a small database using Microsoft Access.
(Lecture
4 notes and on-line material)
Week 5 Introduction to GIS and Computer Mapping
Readings: Kvamme, K. In Archaeological Method and Theory 1 M.
Schiffer editor pg. 139-203, Hvar pages15-88.
Week 6 Introduction to GPS technology
Readings: Trimble publications
Feb 15-Sat Field mapping exercise with GPS in Middle Fork
Valley
Week 7 GIS and Computer Mapping (Continued) practicum. Utilizing site data from AAS develop maps of site distributions in the Middle Fork Area.
Readings: Limp, W. And P. Smith, Environmental parameters of the Rush
Locality and Limp, W., Intersite analysis: aboriginal use of the Rush education/university/old_class_materiality
in Sabo et al 1990 Archaeological investigations at 3MR80-Area D in
the Rush Development Area, Buffalo National River. NPS Southwestern
Cultural Resources Center Professional Paper No 38.
Week 8 GIS Applications, predictive modeling and other application
Readings: Allen, K. S Green and E. Zubrow, editors. Interpreting
Space pages 141-164, 201-215 and 239-273.
Week 9 Introduction to statistical applications
Readings Ross pg. 55-95
(Lecture
9 notes and on-line materials)
Week 10 GIS & Statistics practicum
Mar 20. Spring Break?
Week 11 Presentation of results, publication
Readings: Ross 127-152 , Rahtz, Hall and Allen "The development
of dynamic archaeological publications" in Reilly, P. and S. Rahtz,
editors, 1992, Archaeology and the Information Age, Routledge, London.
Week 13 Presentation practicum Make charts, etc.
with Middle Fork data. Using Power Point and Web tools.
Week 14 Visualization of data and sites practicum. 3D
Modeling using Modelview and Voxel Analyst. Wood and Chapman "Three
dimensional computer visualization of historic buildings" and P. Reilly,
"Three dimensional modeling and primary archaeological data"
in Reilly, P. and S. Rahtz, editors, 1992, Archaeology and the Information
Age, Routledge, London.
Week 15 Share Results With comments from other students,
compare time periods