This course provides an overview of the inter-disciplinary field of digital archaeology, a science that combines elements from established academic disciplines that include anthropology, geology, medicine, statistics, computer science, and engineering, as well as practical professional practices such as heritage resource management and museum science. As a project-based course, students attend lectures and concurrently develop a pilot research project to subsequently undertake during practical laboratory sessions. In lectures, students are first presented with diverse imaging technologies used in capturing and processing digital data and then become acquainted with principles of the quantitative analysis of three-dimensional data.
Prefix:
ANT
Course Number:
382
Credits:
3.0