Computers in Archaeology

In this page good old Aeschylus shows the way to (text)files,

while the diver plunges you into cyberspace

Computer Applications in Archaeology
GisArch homepage, a mailinglist on the use of GIS in archaeology, including:
- list of members of GisArch
- the mailing archives
- how to join GisArch
The Archaeological Data Archive Project (ADAP)
The Centre for the Study of Architecture, including their CAD archive, a CSA booklet about CAD for scholarship, the CSA layer naming convention for CAD and more...
Archaeologists using GIS
Computer Based Reconstructions of Archaeological Sites
Details on GIS courses at Edinburgh
Details on GIS courses at Southampton
GIS and Remote Sensing for Archaeology: Burgundy, France
Rassegna degli Strumenti Informatici per lo studio dell'antichita' classica
APA [American Philological Association] Committee on Computer Activities
Program of the UISPP Colloquium II (GIS applications in archaeology) at Forli on Wed 11th Sept.
University of Birmingham Field Archaeology Unit home page - links to GIS and archaeology and the CAA97
The Corinth computer project
Remote sensing methods in archaeology

Here are some utilities I've developed. Feel free to download, and if you like them, let me know!

sediment.pal 2.79KB 22/11/96
This is a CorelDraw! palette for Dutch sedimentation. You can search on color or soiltype. For use with Corel 4 and 5 (tested). I never tested it for 6, but it might work with that as well.

MapMaker - Free GIS for Windows
Some free GIS software based on Dana Tomlin's original MAP package. It is a grid-cell based system and will handle databases up to several tens of thousands of cells. All of the original map algebra commands are operational. The software, including the source code, several databases, and a workbook are available via anonymous FTP
the Bonn Archeological Software Package with details about the program and screenshots. The Bonn Archaeological Software Package (BASP) is a non-commercial, non-profit software project for and by archeologists which has been developed cooperatively since 1973.
Trial version of the latest BASP for Windows. FTP-site;
login: anonymous
password: your e-mail address
cd pc/win3/miscapps
bin
prompt no
get baspwin*.zip.
Change baspwin*.zip to baspwin1.zip...baspwin5.zip if you have space problems and load each one separately in a separate run of ftp after downloading the previous file to your PC, deleting each previous file after testing for a successful download by decompressing the file. Use pkzip2.04g's pkunzip.exe (shareware from all Simtel mirrors) for safe decompression.
SimTel's software archive for the MS-DOS version of AutoCAD
SimTel's software archive for the Windows version of AutoCAD
CAD resources from Cornell University
TnT-Maps lite, a version of GIS software avalible for free. This software is a complete GIS package including raster, vector, cad and tin formats. It can be used on a Mac, PC or workstation.

Lots of info can be obtained from the makers of all this; so here are some adresses of manufacturers of soft- and hardware on the net.

For everything you might want to know about map projections; the massive digital bibliography created by John Snyder, about 2500 entries.