CAA2015 Siena

Network science techniques offer archaeologists the ability to manage, visualise, and analyse network data. Within different archaeological research contexts, network data can be used to represent hypothesised past social networks, geographically embedded networks like roads and rivers, the similarity of site assemblages, and much more.

A large number of software programs is available to work with network data. Visone is one of them and offers a number of advantages:

Free to use for research purposes
A user-friendly interactive graphical user interface
Innovative network visualisations
Exporting publication-quality raster and vector files
The incorporation of statistical modelling techniques

This workshop introduces the basics of network data management, visualisation and analysis with Visone through practical examples using archaeological research questions and datasets. The workshop is aimed at archaeologists with no required previous experience with network science.

Participants should bring a laptop with Visone installed

Maximum 20 participants.

Network science techniques offer archaeologists the ability to manage, visualise, and analyse network data. Within different archaeological research contexts, network data can be used to represent hypothesised past social networks, geographically embedded networks like roads and rivers, the similarity of site assemblages, and much more.

A large number of software programs is available to work with network data. Visone is one of them and offers a number of advantages:

Free to use for research purposes
A user-friendly interactive graphical user interface
Innovative network visualisations
Exporting publication-quality raster and vector files
The incorporation of statistical modelling techniques

This workshop introduces the basics of network data management, visualisation and analysis with Visone through practical examples using archaeological research questions and datasets. The workshop is aimed at archaeologists with no required previous experience with network science.

Participants should bring a laptop with Visone installed

Maximum 20 participants.

This workshop is promoted by the MAPPA Lab of the University of Pisa; the Lab manages the archaeological open data repository MOD and organises the Open School of Archaeological Data, a free school to foster open data literacy in archaeology.

In this workshop we want to encourage a civic hacking approach to archaeology, an open data approach that we define as ha(r)ckeology. Hacking is a tricky term which it’s difficult to find a single widely accepted definition for. To most of the population, hacking is still associated solely with the acts of breaking into security systems. To those near the technology world, hacking means attempting to solve problems more quickly or creatively than before, and it’s about using new ideas and approaches to improve the status quo. In the context of ha(r)ckeology, we’re clearly more interested in the problem-solving definition of hacking. Using Mark Zuckerberg’s definition: hacking just means building something quickly or testing the boundaries of what can be done. A definition with no explicit mention of technology: hacking is conceived more as a process than as a specific toolset. Therefore, ha(r)ckeology is the act, conducted by archaeologists, of quickly improving the processes and systems of archaeology with new tools or approaches, or more simply ha(r)ckeology means archaeologists working together quickly and creatively to improve archaeology. For reaching such a goal, the first step is to educate a new generation of archaeologists, a sharing generation able to work with a trowel, and to share and manipulate data, a generation that is aware that archaeological data must be open because they are public, they are expensive to produce, and they must be reused.

The workshop has a talking and making approach and want to introduce in a practical manner in how to find, to download, to use, to reuse, and to publish data in open formats. We will explain how to transform data from native formats to more useful formats, for example using Tabula for liberating tables locked inside .pdf files, or making web data extraction easily with software like Import.io . After the data mining, we will work with OpenRefine, a powerful tool for working with messy data: is there someone that thinks that archaeological data aren’t messy? We will clean and transform them from one format into another; we will geocode tabular data starting from a simple address and analyse the spatial properties of archaeological data. Using qGIS we’ll explore the spatial properties of archaeological data, and we’ll apply to them statistical, geostatistical and mathematical models. Archaeologists are open data user, but also open data producer. We will work with metadata and licenses: the ethical and legal aspects connected with the opening of the archaeological data are of fundamental importance.

We don’t want to teach, but to share our experience.

This workshop is promoted by the MAPPA Lab of the University of Pisa; the Lab manages the archaeological open data repository MOD and organises the Open School of Archaeological Data, a free school to foster open data literacy in archaeology.

In this workshop we want to encourage a civic hacking approach to archaeology, an open data approach that we define as ha(r)ckeology. Hacking is a tricky term which it’s difficult to find a single widely accepted definition for. To most of the population, hacking is still associated solely with the acts of breaking into security systems. To those near the technology world, hacking means attempting to solve problems more quickly or creatively than before, and it’s about using new ideas and approaches to improve the status quo. In the context of ha(r)ckeology, we’re clearly more interested in the problem-solving definition of hacking. Using Mark Zuckerberg’s definition: hacking just means building something quickly or testing the boundaries of what can be done. A definition with no explicit mention of technology: hacking is conceived more as a process than as a specific toolset. Therefore, ha(r)ckeology is the act, conducted by archaeologists, of quickly improving the processes and systems of archaeology with new tools or approaches, or more simply ha(r)ckeology means archaeologists working together quickly and creatively to improve archaeology. For reaching such a goal, the first step is to educate a new generation of archaeologists, a sharing generation able to work with a trowel, and to share and manipulate data, a generation that is aware that archaeological data must be open because they are public, they are expensive to produce, and they must be reused.

The workshop has a talking and making approach and want to introduce in a practical manner in how to find, to download, to use, to reuse, and to publish data in open formats. We will explain how to transform data from native formats to more useful formats, for example using Tabula for liberating tables locked inside .pdf files, or making web data extraction easily with software like Import.io . After the data mining, we will work with OpenRefine, a powerful tool for working with messy data: is there someone that thinks that archaeological data aren’t messy? We will clean and transform them from one format into another; we will geocode tabular data starting from a simple address and analyse the spatial properties of archaeological data. Using qGIS we’ll explore the spatial properties of archaeological data, and we’ll apply to them statistical, geostatistical and mathematical models. Archaeologists are open data user, but also open data producer. We will work with metadata and licenses: the ethical and legal aspects connected with the opening of the archaeological data are of fundamental importance.

We don’t want to teach, but to share our experience.

9:00-9:25
ANNA BENTKOWSKA-KAFEL

Colour and Space in Cultural Heritage in 6Ds. The interdisciplinary connections

9:25-9:50
LUCA CIPRIANI, FILIPPO FANTINI, SILVIA BERTACCHI

A novel method for shadow removal and BRDF simulation of texture from SfM applications

9:50-10:15
SARAH YOUNAN

Museums digital repositories and personal identities

10:15-10:40
MARCELLO PICOLLO, ANDREA CASINI, COSTANZA CUCCI, MARINA GINANNI, ELENA PRANDI, MAGNOLIA SCUDIERI, TATIANA VITORINO

The use of hyper-spectral imaging technique to reveal concealed layers: a key question for the study of paintings

10:40-11:00
JONATHAN ROY GRATION, DOUGLAS ALEXANDER CAWTHORNE

Hidden but not lost; Exploring the Great Hall at Boughton House

15:00-15:25
GIACOMO LANDESCHI, NICOLÒ DELL' UNTO, DANIELE FERDANI
A vector-based pipeline for assessing visibility: a 3D GIS perspective

15:25-15:50

HEATHER RICHARDS-RISSETTO, MICHAEL AUER, JENNIFER VON SCHWERIN, NICOLAS BILLEN, LUKAS LOOS, ALEXANDER ZIPF
MayaArch3D: Web based 3D Visibility Analyses in Ancient Cityscapes – the role of visible structures at the Maya Site of Copán, Honduras

 

15:50-16:15

NICOLÒ DELL' UNTO
Using different eyes: the case of the medieval Cathedral of Dalby

16:15-16:40
RODRIGO MORA
The development of 3D VGA tools: an application in a case of weak heritage in Valparaiso, Chile

This session will combine 5 minute lightning talks – appropriate for describing specific database examples, solutions, or methodological approaches – with a concluding round-table discussion that pulls together the threads of a more reflective approach to the conceptual structure of archaeological databases and the ways in which databases influence our thinking through constraints and facilitation. The last decade of innovation and development in archaeological DBMS has provided a multitude of platforms, techniques, vocabularies, and movements in the management of complex datasets collected in the field and laboratory, not to mention the incorporation of materials from GIS and other sister disciplines. Beyond their most common usage as simple storage and visualization receptacles, what are archaeological databases for and where are they headed? How do the rarely unified goals of data sharing, publication, and analysis influence the types of databases sought or produced by archaeologists?

How do data management models affect the types of analysis and argument made by archaeologists as they interpret the past? Participants presenting lightning talks are invited to bring a poster to the conference, which will be displayed during the sessions. Each block of lightning talks will be followed by a significant networking period (approx. 40 minutes) around the posters to allow immediate person-to-person discussion of the ideas presented and the development of new connections. In the concluding roundtable, we aim to bring together representatives of the major archaeological database platforms, as well as those concerned with semantic structure, metadata standards and repositories. Panelists will be invited to address the fundamental concepts and theoretical commitments that underlie archaeological databases, from HCI and software architectures, through relationships with the web and social media, to an increasingly connected internet of things.

This higher-level debate often takes a back seat to the practical issues of management, maintenance, and facilitation of other peoples’ data. We encourage submissions on any topic related to archaeological databases including, but not limited to: the database structures and concepts essential to the management of archaeological data; the relationship(s) between goals of data curation, analysis, and publication; data sharing standards and DBMS communication, interaction, and translation; appropriate chains of data production and curation from data collection devices to tertiary HCI and data export; integration of archaeological databases with the internet of things; the benefits and hindrances of ‘social’ archaeological databases; long term database sustainability as a possibility and goal; and the growing and changing roles of data management personnel, database administrators, and field archaeologists as data managers.

Presentation of the book:
Pizziolo G. and Sarti L. (eds)
"Predicting prehistory. Predictive models and field research
methods for detecting prehistoric contexts, Proceedings of the International Workshop, Grosseto (Italy), September 19-20 2013", Millenni studi di archeologia preistorica, 11, Museo e Istituto Fiorentino di Preistoria "Paolo Graziosi", Firenze 2015.

9:00-9:25

HANS PETER BLANKHOLM

Intrasite spatial analysis past and present: an overview

9:25-9:50
MICHAL BIRKENFELD, NIGEL ADRIAN GORING-MORRIS

Stratigraphy and spatial analysis at the PPNB site of Kfar HaHoresh, Israel

9:50-10:15
KATIA FRANCESCA ACHINO, JUAN ANTONIO BARCELÓ

Predicting the accumulative consequences of abandonment processes. Intrasite analysis of lakeside settlements

10:15-10:40
REBECCA J S CANNELL, JAN BILL

The geochemistry of deposition: functions and phases identified by geochemistry and spatial analysis in the proto-urban Viking Age settlement near Gokstad, Norway.

10:40-11:00
GIOVANNA PIZZIOLO, LUCIA SARTI, NICOLETTA VOLANTE

Intrasite analysis in the Florentine Plain: from data integration to palaeosurfaces interpretation

11:30-11:55
TILMAN BAUM, CLAAS NENDEL
Combining two modelling approaches to examine prehistoric husbandry methods and land use of the pre-alpine wetland settlements

11:55-12:20

JAMIE JOYCE, PHILIP VERHAGEN
Keeping the home fires burning: spatial dynamic modelling of the wood-fuel economy of the Roman limes zone in the Netherlands.

12:20-12:45
ANGELOS CHLIAOUTAKIS
An application of a self-organizing Agent-based model in Minoan Crete

12:45-13:10

ANDREA KAY, JED KAPLAN

A classification of subsistence lifestyles and land use in prehistoric Africa

13:10-13:30

Short poster presentation

15:00-15:25
CHRISTINA COLLINS, ELENI ASOUTI, MATT GROVE, DOUGLAS BAIRD, RICHARD CHIVERRELL, LEE BRADLEY
Results of the 'Unfamiliar Landscape' project: Palaeoenvironmental modelling and the origins of agriculture in Central Anatolia.

15:25-15:50
SEBASTIAN VOGEL, FLORIAN SEILER, MICHAEL MÄRKER
The SALVE research project: Sarno River plain – Ancient Life in the Vesuvian Environment

15:50-16:15
MONICA DE CET
Menorca and its Past Socio-Economic Sphere: a Methodological Approach to Model Production and Demography on a Mediterranean Island.

16:15-16:40
JOAN NEGRE PÉREZ, JUAN ANTONIO BARCELÓ ÁLVAREZ
Agricultural yields and demographic size. An experimental approach to regional-scale population estimate in a medieval Islamic hinterland (Tortosa, Northeast Iberian Peninsula).

9:00-9:25
CARLO CITTER, ANTONIA ARNOLDUS-HUYZENDVELD, GIOVANNA PIZZIOLO

Predictivity-Postdictivity: a theoretical framework.

9:25-9:50
IRMELA HERZOG

Retrodicting the distribution of rural settlement locations recorded on a map created in 1715 AD

9:50-10:15
FRANCESCO CARRER

Inductive models, deductive models and ethnoarchaeological models: strengths, weaknesses and new perspectives

10:15-10:40
PHILIP MATTHEW NORMAN HITCHINGS, E B BANNING

Bayesian Optimal Allocation of Archaeological Survey Effort: A Case Study in Wadi Quseiba, Jordan

10:40-11:00
PHILIP VERHAGEN, LAURE NUNINGER, FRÉDÉRIQUE BERTONCELLO, ANGELO CASTRORAO BARBA

Estimating the “memory of landscape” to predict changes in archaeological settlement patterns

11:30-11:55

KAYT ARMSTRONG, CHRISTINA TSIGONAKI, APOSTOLOS SARRIS, NADIA COUTSINAS

Site Location Modelling and Prediction on Early Byzantine Crete: Methods employed, challenges encountered

 

11:55-12:20
ANTONIO PORCHEDDU

Predicting and Postdicting a Roman road in the Pre-Pyrenees area of Lleida (Spain).

12:20-12:45
EMERI FARINETTI

Modelling regional landscape through the predictive and postdictive exploration of settlement choices: the theoretical framework and a case study

12:45-13:10
LAURA SORO, LOREDANA FRANCESCA TEDESCHI, MAURIZIO MINCHILLI

N[Move - Spatial models of walking accessibility between nuragic sites

15:00-15:25
SORIN HERMON, VALENTINA VASSALLO, LOLA VICO, ELENA CHRISTOPHOROU, GIANCARLO IANNONE

A 3D visual and geometrical approach to epigraphic research; the Soli (Cyprus) inscription as a case study

 

15:25-15:50
ISTO HUVILA, DANIEL LÖWENBORG, LISA BÖRJESSON, BODIL PETERSSON, NICOLÒ DELL’UNTO, PER STENBORG

What is archaeological information?

15:50-16:15
MATTHIAS LANG, CHRISTIAN CHIARCOS, PHILIP VERHAGEN

IT-assisted Exploration of Excavation Reports - Using Natural Language Processing in the archaeological research-process

16:15-16:40
ANNA MARIA MARRAS

Mind mapping and archaeological research. Concepts, themes and know-how dissemination

 

17:00-17:15

SVETA MATSKEVICH, ILAN SHARON

Modelling the archaeological record: A look from the Levant – past and future approaches

 

17:25-17:50

STAVROS ANGELIS, AGIATIS BENARDOU, NEPHELIE CHATZIDIAKOU, PANOS CONSTANTOPOULOS, COSTIS DALLAS, LORNA M. HUGHES, LEONIDAS PAPACHRISTOPOULOS, ELIZA PAPAKI, VAYIANOS PERTSAS

Documenting and reasoning about research on ancient Corinthia using the NeDiMAH Methods Ontology (NeMO)

 

17:50-18:15

IGOR BOGDANOVIC, JUAN ANTONIO BARCELÓ, ANTONI PALOMO, RAQUEL PIQUÉ, XAVIER TERRADAS

From Data to Knowledge - telearchaeological approach

 

18:15-18:40

ALBERTO BELUSSI, SARA MIGLIORINI, PATRIZIA BASSO, PIERGIOVANNA GROSSI

The Archaeological Urban Information System of the Historical Heritage of Verona