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T. Orlandi
ABSTRACT
What is the use of reecting on the history of Digital Archaeology Dividing the history
of Digital Humanities in general into four stages, Digital Archaeology was born in the stage
of “pioneers’ applications” (1960-70), and for some time it developed both in practice and in
theory. The theory seemed especially interesting also for non digital Archaeology, but around
1990 technology suffocated the more complicated and difcult theoretical approach. The opportunity
to go back to this approach is demonstrated in three special cases: the creation of
databases, the encoding procedures, and the relations between archaeology and information
science.
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