Challenging Digital Archaeology

• Authors: Jeremy Huggett
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

A keynote presentation at the 2012 Computer Applications in Archaeology (CAA) conference in Southampton (UK) proposed the use of grand challenges as a vehicle for identifying and pursuing major advances in Digital Archaeology. At the same time, it was argued that this should be a collaborative venture. This was taken forward at a round table session at the 2014 CAA in Paris, and a number of papers in this volume were presented there. This paper introduces the concept of grand challenges for Digital Archaeology and seeks to define their key characteristics.

Keywords

EN

digital archaeology; grand challenge

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Open Archaeology
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 1
• Issue: 1

Dates

received

2014-12-12

accepted

2015-01-30

online

2015-03-03

Contributors

author

Jeremy Huggett

• Archaeology, School of Humanities, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/opar-2015-0003