Tag Archives: GIS

Reflections on the EAA 2013 Roundtable on “Ephemeral Landscapes”

Posted on January 1, 2014 by Jim Newhard

In September, the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) held its meetings in Pilsen, Czech Republic.  I attended this meeting, and participated in a roundtable on ‘Ephemeral Landscapes,’ organized by Martijn vanLeusen, Andrew Bevan, Kayt Armstrong, and Wieke deNeef.  The workshop … Continue reading →

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Free GIS Workshop in Lancaster

Posted on February 4, 2013 by Jim Newhard

Originally posted on Archaeological Networks:
The Spatial Humanities team in Lancaster is organising a free two-day workshop in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for postgraduate students and early career researchers. The intensive two-day course does not require any prior knowledge on…

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Posted on February 4, 2013 by Jim Newhard

Originally posted on Archaeology of the Mediterranean World:
This past week, Deb Brown, who co-organized our panel at the Archaeological Institute of America’s annual meeting made the talks available on the YouTubes. All the papers were very solid on this…

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Digital Classicist London 2013: Call for Papers

Posted on January 26, 2013 by Jim Newhard

From the Stoa Consortium: Call for Papers January 24th, 2013 by Gabriel Bodard The Digital Classicist London seminar series, which provides a forum for research into the ancient world that employs digital research methods, invites submissions for Summer 2013. We … Continue reading →

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Workshop in Agent Based Modeling at CAA 2013

Posted on January 26, 2013 by Jim Newhard

Preposted from the antiquist… Ever wondered what all this complex systems talk in archaeology is about, or how to design your own sophisticated simulation model? Then this might be for you: We will organise a workshop on complex systems and … Continue reading →

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Ancient Geography Resources – repost from AWOL

Posted on January 21, 2013 by Jim Newhard

In September 2012, the Ancient World Online (AWOL) posted an annotated list of resources for ancient geography.  Better late than never, so here’s the link: http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2012/09/roundup-of-resources-on-ancient.html Happy browsing!

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AIA 2013 Meeting, Seattle WA

Posted on January 6, 2013 by Jim Newhard

I am sitting in the Sheraton’s bar, watching the Seattle/Washington game (and geekily enough, blogging).  Will write a short note now, just to say that the times spent discussing the state of geospatial studies in archaeology formed some of the … Continue reading →

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Landscape Research Centre

Posted on February 28, 2012 by Jim Newhard

The Landscape Research Centre Atlas of the Archaeology of the Vale of Pickering (http://www.landscaperesearchcentre.org/atlas/LRC_Atlas.html) presents “…the interpretations of more than three decades of landscape observation and research using air-photography and geophysics to map the archeaology of parts of the Vale … Continue reading →

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