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Scientific Challenges in Archaeology - Is modern computer science ready for archaeology?

Authors:
Lutz Schubert
Gill Hunt
Keith Jeffery

Keywords: advanced applications; archaeology; high performance computing; physics; simulation; network analysis; social networks; agent systems; theoretical computer science

Abstract:
Digital Humanities is receiving growing interest in academia. However, in most cases it is understood as teaching computer science in humanities, much rather than actually merging the subjects. In fact, most computer scientists regard humanities as a “trivial” challenge without “hard, scientific” problems. However, many areas in humanities pose hard challenges to which current computer science cannot provide sufficient solution approaches. In this paper, we examine the specific scientific problems in archaeology that pose new hard and interesting challenges to computer science.

Pages: 72 to 82

Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2018. Used with permission.

Publication date: June 30, 2018

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ISSN: 1942-261x