1.2. Are We Ready for New (Digital) Ways to Record Archaeological Fieldwork? A Case Study from Pompeii
Year: 2016
Type: article
Abstract: 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 defense of the use of tablet computers over pieces of paper to record archaeological fieldwork, what follows is ultimately a call to balance our commonly romanticized views of experience and tradition in the ways we do things with the intellectual value in exploring new ideas and developments in core methodology.
Author: Steven J. R. Ellis
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funders: U.S. Department of Defense, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, U.S. Department of State, U.S. Department of Agriculture, United States Agency for International Development, U.S. Department of Labor, American Council of Learned Societies, U.S. Social Security Administration, National Geographic Society, University of Cincinnati, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Loeb Classical Library Foundation, American Academy in Rome, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Air Force, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, U.S. Navy, Defense Human Resources Activity, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Military Academy
OpenAlex ID: W2562003644