UCL - Archaeological Data Processing and Interpretation

[ARKA2220]

[15h] 4 credits

This two-yearly course is taught in 2008-2009, 2010-2011,...

Teacher(s):

Language: French

Level: Second

Aims
Main themes
Content and teaching methods
Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Aims

Basic introduction to the main data processing and interpretation methods and techniques used by archaeologists, namely with the help of computering and information systems.

Main themes

The lectures will introduce the main archaeological data processing and management often computer-assisted tools, and sometimes linked with statistics methods and spatial analysis.

Content and teaching methods

Content: The lectures describe the aims of a systematic management of the archaeological data within a scientific framework. Field practices (excavation, inventories, recordings), research hypotheses development (spatial analyses of sites or of wider territories, mapping using GIS), and the interpretation will be considered (graphical representations, statistics and classifying methods applied to the archaeological finds and their contexts),
Lecturing: ex cathedra lectures.
Readings: specialised chapters and papers in general methodological, or mathematical and geographical methods books.

Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Scholarship: Scholarship: a methodological introduction course in the Faculty (FLTR) ; Mineure Archéologie and Arts et Civilisations ; and ARKE 1251-Techniques de fouilles and/or ARKExxxx Méthodes de prospection.
Evaluation : single examination with a written essay or MCQ.
Support : bibliography and illustration (files on the intranet of the Department).