TY - JOUR T1 - New Computational and Mathematical Methods for Archaeological Fieldwork at the Extreme South of the Populated World JF - Arctic Anthropology JO - Arctic Anthropol SP - 202 LP - 213 DO - 10.1353/arc.0.0017 VL - 46 IS - 1-2 AU - Juan A. Barceló AU - Laura Mameli AU - Alfredo Maximiano AU - Oriol Vicente Y1 - 2009/02/06 UR - http://aa.uwpress.org/content/46/1-2/202.abstract N2 - 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. ER -