Talk:Computational archaeology

message: The article on archaeoinformation science says that computational archaeology is another word for the same thing, and as far as I can tell the articles do describe the same or very similar fields.
In case the merge is approved, some considerations in choosing the title for the merged article:
* In favour of "computational archaelogy":
** "Computational archaeology" has far more Google hits than either "archaeoinformation science" or "archaeoinformatics" (which doesn't exist as an article but is another synonym listed under "archaeoinformation science").
** "Computational archaeology" has more links to it than "archaeoinformation science", which indicates that
*** this is where people are more likely to look for this subject and
*** fewer changes to links would be required after the merge
** This is analogous to other subject designations like computational sociology and could thus more easily be guessed.
* In favour of "archaeinformation science":
** This is the more fleshed-out article of the two.
In my opinion, the reasons for choosing "computational archaeology" are stronger.
Joriki 07:04, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: (previously commented on archaeology project talk page).  There is or ought to be a subtle differentiation between the two.  
*Computational archaeology should mean number crunching i.e. all the various computationally intense analyses and computer models that support archaeological research.  
*Archeoinformation science wouldn't necessarily include the mathematical modelling implicit in computational modelling, but should include the management of (unstructured) information such as archaeological reports, this can include management of information outside computers (e.g. old fashioned libraries and archives), as well as computer related issues such as GIS, taxonomies and searching.  However, other than GIS, the archeoinformation science article talks almost exclusively about computational methods. 
*I'm not sure the difference is sufficient to support having two articles, so I would suggest having either archeoinformation science or archaeological computing as the generic term.   Viv Hamilton 07:46, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

text: I'm with Benjamin Ducke on this, and I suggest that the articles merge into Archaeoinformation science. The distinction I see, followed in parallel terms like Bioinformatics, is that that Archaeoinformatics is an area of research that seeks to contribute to archaeological theory- and knowledge-building in new ways by reconceptualising archaeological problems in ways that allow computational power to be used. Some of these problems, such as modelling the origins of reciprocity, require much thinking about how to actually solve using a computer; yet, ironically, at the same time being too complicated to solve using any other means. Computational archaeology is a more methodological and problem-oriented process---number crunching, perhaps---that is focussed on specific well-defined problems (e.g., the calculation of a viewshed and its correlation to settlement patterns in a GIS-based landscape study; or the generation of an isovist for a study of visibility within a built struction; or the use of a Monte Carlo method to generate confidence intervals for a study of spatial patterns). The distinction reflects the difference commonly drawn between GISc and GIS, with the former being a more theoretical area of research, and the latter essentially a technical and methodological tool. I thus say merge, and we add a heading in Archaeoinformation science called Compuational Archaeology that sets out this distinction. Rattus 03:43, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  I agree with a merge computational within Archaeoinformatics as it maintains a consistent standard and theme across the sciences in wiki Boris 22:21, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
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