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Artefacts discovered under Christchurch's Isaac Theatre Royale

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Archaeologists working in Christchurch have stumbled across a “massive” collection of artefacts under the quake-damaged Isaac Theatre Royale.

Eighteen boxes of artefacts were found under the theatre’s foundations during a partial demolition of the heritage building in December last year.

Katharine Watson, director of Underground Overground Archaeology, says the discovery came as a shock to the team.

“We weren’t expecting to find anything,” she says. "It was actually the digger driver who found it.”

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Fort Vancouver Public Archaeology

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The use of information and communications technology (ICT) has revolutionized archaeological mapping, image recording, and analysis through tools such as GPS, GIS, and digital cameras (Evans and Daly 2006). Gidding et al. (2011) note that archaeologists have been slow to adopt integrated digital recording techniques, relying to an inordinate degree on paper-based recording systems to collect data on archaeological phenomena.


Where archaeologists have utilized digital data, the resultant databases often can answer only very specific research questions (Gidding et al. 2011).


That the challenges of using ICT field collection are becoming less of an issue is evidenced by the recent session at the 2012 Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology conference titled “Using tablet PCs to support field documentation

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THis is going the be the way forward, but there will always always be a place for the pencil, tape and notebook  ( well   for now anyway! )

Martin Roseveare's comment, January 30, 11:46 AM
We've just built a proper integrated recording system for a project in Iraq (http://www.urarchaeology.org/). It does need proper ground-up design and a complete move away from the file-full-of-paper mindset to be properly useful
David Connolly's comment, January 30, 4:03 PM
Superb! Martin... you of course have made me jealous. This calls for a short article I think!