On-Site Digital Archaeology 3.0 and Cyber-Archaeology: Into the Future of the Past - New Developments, Delivery and the Creation of a Data Avalanche
Program Unit: Poster session
Levy, T. E., Petrovic, V., Wypch, T., Gidding, A., Knabb, K., Hernandez, D., Smith, N. G., Schulz, J. P., Savage, S. H., Kuester, F., Ben-Yosef, E., Buitenhuys, C., Barrett, C. J., DeFanti, T.

Over the past 3 years, with the establishment of the new Center of Interdisciplinary Science for Art, Architecture and Archaeology (CISA3) at UCSD’s California Institute of Telecommunication and Information Technology (Calit2), a collaboratory framework has been established facilitating joint research between archaeologists, computer scientists and engineers. We report here on a cyber-archaeology field recording system that feeds into a cyberinfrastructure delivered over the Mediterranean Archaeology Network (MedArchNet) on a Google Earth platform.A field test of the new system was carried out in the fall of 2009 at Khirbat en-Nahas (KEN), an Iron Age (ca. 1200 – 900 BCE) copper production center in Jordan. More than just a recording system, the GIS foundation of the on-site digital archaeology system allows researchers to access multiple datasets collected with different digital tools to help answer a range of anthropological and historical questions.