Archaeology and computers: a long story in the making of modern archaeology

François Djindjian

«Archeologia e Calcolatori» 2019, 30, 13-20; doi: 10.19282/ac.30.2019.02

Abstract

The growing success, for more than fifty years, of the scientific contribution of computer applications and quantitative methods in archaeology may be now reviewed and analyzed from different technological and sociological points of view. This examination allows us to appreciate the material importance of such contributions and how the community of specialists in computational archaeology should play a major role in the future of 21st-century archaeology.

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