Archaeological Informatics Beyond Technology: Themed Issue: Introduction

• Main Authors: Jeremy Huggett, Seamus Ross
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: University of York 2004-01-01
• Series: Internet Archaeology
• Subjects: archaeology; technology; impacts; precision; change
• Online Access: http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue15/inf_index.html

The use of information technology and information processing methods has changed practice in archaeology. An un-enunciated realisation that archaeology itself is about information and not about material remains in and of themselves lies behind this change. This recognition that information about the interrelationship, meaning, and socio-cultural constructs of information lies at the heart of archaeological discourse and presses archaeologists to seek new methods and approaches to investigating the past.