Author Archives: Jim Newhard

Managing Archaeological Data in the Digital Age: Best Practices and Realities

Posted on February 4, 2013 by Jim Newhard

Reblogged from The Archaeology of the Mediterranean World: This past week, Deb Brown, who co-organized our panel at the Archaeological Institute of America’s annual meeting made the talks available on the YouTubes. All the papers were very solid on this … Continue reading →
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Free GIS workshop in Lancaster

Posted on February 4, 2013 by Jim Newhard

Reblogged from Archaeological Networks: The Spatial Humanities team in Lancaster is organising a free two-day workshop in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for postgraduate students and early career researchers. The intensive two-day course does not require any prior knowledge on GIS … Continue reading →
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Arches: Heritage Inventory & Management System

Posted on February 3, 2013 by Jim Newhard

Arches is an open-source, web-based, geospatial information system for cultural heritage inventory and management. Purpose-built for the international cultural heritage field, Arches is designed to record all types of immovable heritage, including archaeological sites, buildings and other historic structures, landscapes, … Continue reading →
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Digital Classicist London 2013: Call for Papers

Posted on January 26, 2013 by Jim Newhard

From the Stoa Consortium: Call for Papers January 24th, 2013 by Gabriel Bodard The Digital Classicist London seminar series, which provides a forum for research into the ancient world that employs digital research methods, invites submissions for Summer 2013. We … Continue reading →
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Workshop in Agent Based Modeling at CAA 2013

Posted on January 26, 2013 by Jim Newhard

Preposted from the antiquist… Ever wondered what all this complex systems talk in archaeology is about, or how to design your own sophisticated simulation model? Then this might be for you: We will organise a workshop on complex systems and … Continue reading →
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Graduate Symposium in GIS Applications in Archaeology

Posted on January 22, 2013 by Jim Newhard

Middle East Technical University Graduate Program in Settlement Archaeology Graduate Symposium Series 5 29-30 April 2013, METU Ankara   GIS Applications in Archaeology Understanding  the distribution of material culture in time and space forms the basis of archaeological studies. While … Continue reading →
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Ancient Geography Resources – repost from AWOL

Posted on January 21, 2013 by Jim Newhard

In September, the Ancient World Online (AWOL) posted an annotated list of resources for ancient geography.  Better late than never, so here’s the link: http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2012/09/roundup-of-resources-on-ancient.html Happy browsing! Filed under: Websites of Interest Tagged: classical archaeology, GIS, Topography
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Some More Thoughts on Digital History

Posted on January 7, 2013 by Jim Newhard

Reblogged from The Archaeology of the Mediterranean World: Our panel yesterday on Managing Archaeological Data in a Digital Age was really nice. There was an engaged audience and a diverse but cohesive group of papers. What more could you want … Continue reading →
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AIA 2013 Meeting, Seattle WA

Posted on January 6, 2013 by Jim Newhard

I am sitting in the Sheraton’s bar, watching the Seattle/Washington game (and geekily enough, blogging).  Will write a short note now, just to say that the times spent discussing the state of geospatial studies in archaeology formed some of the … Continue reading →
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Call for Papers: Digital Perspectives on the Classical World

Posted on September 6, 2012 by Jim Newhard

CALL FOR PAPERS Word, Space, Time: Digital Perspectives on the Classical World An interdisciplinary conference organized by the Digital Classics Association University at Buffalo, SUNY Buffalo, NY 14261, USA April 5 – 6, 2013 Archaeological GIS, digital historical mapping, literary … Continue reading →
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