RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 New Computational and Mathematical Methods for Archaeological Fieldwork at the Extreme South of the Populated World
JF Arctic Anthropology
JO Arctic Anthropol
FD University of Wisconsin Press
SP 202
OP 213
DO 10.1353/arc.0.0017
VO 46
IS 1-2
A1 Juan A. Barceló
A1 Laura Mameli
A1 Alfredo Maximiano
A1 Oriol Vicente
YR 2009
UL http://aa.uwpress.org/content/46/1-2/202.abstract
AB We present the methodology of computer modeling of an archaeological excavation. The method allows the study of archaeological formation, modification and transformation processes. Our main goal has been to build a computer model of middensite formation processes. The main purpose of these models is converting excavation data to visual elements (lines, surfaces, and solids) which can be used as a representation of that data. Furthermore, geostatistics and other quantitative spatial analysis methods are also discussed to characterize the processes having generated the spatial distribution of archaeological data.