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Digitally Recording Excavations on a Budget: A (Low-Cost) DIY Approach from Scotland.

Authors :
Masson-MacLean, Edouard
O'Driscoll, James
McIver, Cathy
Noble, Gordon
Source :
Journal of Field Archaeology. Dec 2021, Vol. 46 Issue 8, p595-613. 19p.
Publication Year :
2021

Abstract

The increasing use of digital technologies can provide significant benefits to the excavation and interpretative process in archaeology. Yet, despite major developments in the last two decades, digital recording can still be seen as part of the realm of tech savvy archaeologists, well-funded projects, or larger commercial units who can develop their own recording systems or deploy a pre-existing application. The latter are often expensive and can be technologically challenging to implement, and few of these focus on both context recording and feature drawing. In response, this paper presents an accessible and flexible low-cost DIY digital workflow developed by the Comparative Kingship Project, Scotland, allowing field practitioners to benefit from some of the key advantages of "going digital" without the associated costs or complexities of some of the other systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
00934690
Volume :
46
Issue :
8
Database :
Academic Search Index
Journal :
Journal of Field Archaeology
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
153606329
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1080/00934690.2021.1970444