Internet Archaeology, the Archaeology Data Service and the Department of
Archaeology, University of Glasgow are pleased to announce the long-awaited
LEAP publication of
"Joining the Dots: Continuous Survey, Routine Practice and the
Interpretation of a Cypriot Landscape" by Michael Given, Hugh Corley and
Luke Sollars in issue 20 of Internet Archaeology
http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue20/taesp_index.html
and its related digital archive hosted by the Archaeology Data Service
http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/archive/taesp_ahrc_2007/
The published study in Internet Archaeology uses web-based GIS and database
technologies to provide a comprehensive landscape data set and a fully
integrated interpretative text grounded in current landscape theory. The
material comes from the Troodos Archaeological and Environmental Survey
Project (TAESP), which carried out intensive survey in the northern
foothills of the Troodos Mountains in central Cyprus between 2000 and 2004.
The survey covered all periods from the Neolithic to the present day, a wide
range of topographical and environmental contexts, and utilised a broad
spectrum of disciplinary and interdisciplinary expertise. The themes at the
core of this study are the relationship between farming and mining, the
control of production, and the spatial differentiation of human activity
across the landscape.
The preparation of this combined resource was assisted by a grant from the
AHRC under the ICT Strategy programme <http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/project/leap/>.
The aim of LEAP is to investigate ways in which electronic publication can
provide broad access to research findings in the arts and humanities, and
make underlying data available in such a way so that readers are enabled to
seamlessly access online archives to test interpretations and develop their
own conclusions. In this particular exemplar, the online finds databases in
the Internet Archaeology article directly access the underlying archived
data. The digital archive hosted by ADS containing GIS, database files and
images from the project can be accessed independently of the published
article.
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Judith Winters
Editor, Internet Archaeology
http://intarch.ac.uk
Dr Stuart Jeffrey
User Services Manager, Archaeology Data Service
http://ads.ahds.ac.uk
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