A VerySpatial Podcast
Shownotes – Episode 30
February 12, 2006
Main Topic: GIS in Archaeology
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News:
VW and Google join forces
New Geospatial Line Item in US Federal IT Budget
Million dollar blocks
New tomb uncovered in the Valley of the Kings
Open Source Geospatial Foundation begins
Join us at the AAG on our podcast and blog panel
WebCorner:
eDuShi allows you to access spatial information from a reconstructed cityscape
Main Topic:
GIS in Archaeolgy
Past Time, Past Place edited by Anne Knowles
David Rumsey Collection
Jesse’s Shell Fragmentation paper from 1996
Archaeological mapping
Use of models (predictive modeling)
Visualscapes by Marcos Llobera
Reconstructions and multimedia…GREAT paper on Sensuous and Reflexive GIS
National Park Service
Events:
International Lidar Mapping Forum
Feb 13-14
Denver, CO
American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting
St. Louis, MO.
Feb 16-20
AAG
Chicago, IL
March 7-10
37th South Dakota State Geography Convention
Brookings, SD
April 6-7
Music this week by Geoffrey C. Smith, song “February”
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Here’s something in the archaeology line: Archeos, a Linux distribution designed for archaeologists:
http://www.arc-team.com/archeos/