Contribution to the recent history of archaeology by using some digital humanities methods and techniques applied to field recording documents of an archaeological site excavated in 1970s

Abstract

This article presents the results of an archaeological archive research. Field recording documents from the Rivaux site in France, which was excavated from the 1970s to the 1990s, were exploited. After digitising a set of field notebook pages, the author developed an application, called Archeotext, which allows transcribing and georeferencing these documents. Some of the results obtained show new ways of exploiting this type of archive by using certain methods and techniques of the digital humanities.

Keywords

• archaeology
• archives
• field notebooks
• recording methods
• digital humanities
• [shs.archeo]humanities and social sciences/archaeology and prehistory
• [shs.hisphilso]humanities and social sciences/history, philosophy and sociology of sciences