1.4. DIY Digital Workflows on the Athienou Archaeological Project, Cyprus

Authors

Jody Michael Gordon, Wentworth Institute of TechnologyFollow
Erin Walcek Averett, Creighton UniversityFollow
Derek B. Counts, University of Wisconsin-MilwaukeeFollow
Kyosung Koo, Davidson CollegeFollow
Michael K. Toumazou, Davidson CollegeFollow

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For the last 25 years, the Athienou Archaeological Project (AAP) has conducted pedestrian survey and excavations of domestic, religious, and funerary sites in the Malloura Valley on Cyprus. To enhance the project’s research goals, excavation methods, and pedagogical mission, AAP has recognized the utility of thoughtfully integrating emergent technologies into the excavation process and has acknowledged the importance of acquainting students with such technologies. Indeed, AAP has participated in the transition from handwritten notebooks to born-digital, tablet-based recording. In 2011 AAP was among the earliest projects to embrace the “paperless” archaeology revolution that is quickly becoming standard in field archaeology. This chapter describes AAP’s transition to a do-it-yourself (DIY) hybrid archaeological recording system that integrates both born-digital and tablet-based on-site methods with existing paper-based modes of field recording. We discuss the benefits and drawbacks of system implementation and consider the impact of born-digital data recording on project workflows, research, and teaching.

Publication Date

10-6-2016

Publisher

The Digital Press @ University of North Dakota

City

Grand Forks, North Dakota

Keywords

Cyprus, Athienou-Malloura, mobile computing, tablet computing, digitization, database, digital workflows, paperless archaeology, born-digital data, digital image annotation, archaeological method, archaeological theory, archaeological pedagogy, iPads

Disciplines

Classical Archaeology and Art History

Comments

For Supplemental Material see: https://mobilizingthepast.mukurtu.net/collection/14-diy-digital-workflows-athienou-archaeological-project-cyprus

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Recommended Citation

Gordon, Jody Michael, Erin Walcek Averett, and Derek B. Counts, Kyosung Koo, and Michael K. Toumazou, “DIY Digital Workflows on the Athienou Archaeological Project, Cyprus.” In Mobilizing the Past for a Digital Future: The Potential of Digital Archaeology, edited by Erin Walcek Averett, Jody Michael Gordon, and Derek B. Counts, 111-141. Grand Forks, ND: The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota, 2016.