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    "subtitle": "Harvesting the benefits of 10 years of training in the Iberian Peninsula (2006-2015)",
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    "description": "<br />Digital technologies have numerous applications in archaeology ranging from the documentation of the archaeological evidence and the analysis of research data to the presentation of results for a wider audience. This volume consists of various studies on the use of methods such as LiDAR (light detection and ranging), archaeological prospection, visibility, mobility and the analysis of the spatial distribution of archaeological objects, applied in various contexts. The case studies vary widely and include the Late Pleistocene in the Northern Iberian Peninsula, the Roman Republican period in Southern Italy, the Formative period in the Andes and the 1936-39 Spanish Civil War.<br />In 2005 a (then) pioneering postgraduate course on the applicability of digital geospatial technologies for archaeology was launched in Spain. Quite unexpectedly, the course has been alive annually for more than 10 years so far, having trained around 300 young archaeologists from Spain, Portugal, and Latin America in the critical use of nowadays popular tools such as GIS, GPS, remote sensing and LiDAR for the documentation and analysis of the archaeological record.<br />To commemorate the first 10 years of the course, a conference was organized in M\u00e9rida (Spain) in October 2015. Former students were invited to present and discuss their research in which these technologies were used intensively; this edited book is a selection of those contributions. Through a series of widely varying case-studies, both technically sophisticated and theoretically informed applications of such digital technologies are presented.<br />All the contributors are young researchers, either young doctors or doctorate students, coming from fairly varied archaeological contexts and approaches.<br />Contents:<br />Introduction<br />Unboxing the black box. Lessons learnt from ten years of teaching geospatial technologies to archaeologists.<br />by Victorino Mayoral Herrera, C\u00e9sar Parcero-Oubi\u00f1a and Pastor F\u00e1brega-\u00c1lvarez<br />Section 1. Shapes and locations. Documenting and characterizing the archaeological record<br />Pursuing ancient rural life through surface survey: composition and diversity of artifact distributions.<br />by Luis Antonio Sevillano Perea<br />Experiments on Roman surface scatters through digital survey methods: study cases from Odra-Pisuerga region, (Burgos, Spain).<br />by Jes\u00fas Garc\u00eda S\u00e1nchez<br />Scope and limitations of airborne LiDAR technology for the detection and analysis of Roman military settlements in Northwest Iberia.<br />by Jos\u00e9 Manuel Costa Garc\u00eda and Jo\u00e3o Fonte<br />Making Visible the Invisible: Low Cost Methodologies for the Study of Ancient Carvings.<br />by Miguel Carrero-Pazos, Benito Vilas-Est\u00e9vez and Alia V\u00e1zquez-Mart\u00ednez<br />Section 2. Tools and methods. Procedural approaches<br />Methods for the evaluation of the visualization of archaeological sites<br />by Pablo Paniego D\u00edaz<br />Landscapes on the move. Digitally exploring the relationship between megaliths and mobility in Northern C\u00e1ceres (Spain).<br />by Jose M. Se\u00f1or\u00e1n Mart\u00edn<br />The answer is blowing in the wind: a method to measure wind-protection as a criterion for settlement in the past.<br />by Marcos Garc\u00eda Garc\u00eda<br />Section 3. Patterns, behaviour, decisions. Analysing the archaeological evidence<br />Application of GIS to flint management studies during the Pleistocene to Holocene transition: the case of Baltzola (Dima, Bizkaia, Spain).<br />by Maite Garc\u00eda-Rojas, Alejandro Prieto, Aitor S\u00e1nchez, Cristina Camarero and Lydia Zapata<br />The Archaeology of Rock Art as Archaeology of the Mediterranean Landscape.<br />by Mar\u00eda Sebati\u00e1n L\u00f3pez<br />Building landscapes: a landform approach for the Iron Age sites in the Upper Duero River.<br />by Raquel Liceras-Garrido, Enrique Cerrillo-Cuenca and Alfredo Jimeno-Mart\u00ednez<br />GIS contribution to the analysis of the distribution of Roman caves between the Ebro River and the Pyrenees.<br />by Leticia Tobalina Pulido, Beno\u00eet Pa...",
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