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1.7. Digital Pompeii: Dissolving The Fieldwork-Library Research Divide, Eric E. Poehler
1.7. Digital Pompeii: Dissolving The Fieldwork-Library Research Divide, Eric E. Poehler
Mobilizing the Past
The advent of new forms of digital archaeological practice is revolutionizing the ways in which archaeologists work in the field. We have already witnessed the first part of the revolution, which has transformed archaeological methods of data collection and how such data are accessed and deployed in the field. In the second act of this revolution, published scholarship in digital form will be as easy to implement in the field as the trowel, effectively (if theoretically) dissolving the spatio-temporal division between fieldwork and library work. This paper describes two examples of this dissolution of the fieldwork-library divide, one archival in …
1.2. Are We Ready For New (Digital) Ways To Record Archaeological Fieldwork? A Case Study From Pompeii, Steven J. R. Ellis
1.2. Are We Ready For New (Digital) Ways To Record Archaeological Fieldwork? A Case Study From Pompeii, Steven J. R. Ellis
Mobilizing the Past
Beyond outlining some of the experiences and outcomes of the conversion of the University of Cincinnati’s excavations at Pompeii to a “paperless” project, particularly through the highly publicized adoption of iPads to record our archaeological fieldwork, this paper is about our discipline’s polarized response to such developments. In particular, it aims to set the pessimism about paperless methods, held by a sizable demographic, within a wider socio-academic context. Much of it is about admitting we have a problem: that is, a disciplinary consternation for changes to the ways we record data and produce knowledge in the field. More than a …