Introduction to Digital Archaeology

Description from DukeHub

Course studies the radical changes that new methodologies and technologies have wrought in archaeology. Remote sensing technologies, digital tools, virtual reality systems for data recording, documentation, simulation and communication of archaeological data have profoundly changed archaeological field operations. Course surveys the state of the art in: techniques of digital recording and digital documentation; GIS and remote sensing; international case studies in digital archaeology; virtual reality and virtual simulation; Web and digital publications.

Skills

• data and statisticsdescription: "remote sensing" and 2 more
• lab workhas a lab component

AI-resilient: 1 of 5 1/5

• ✓Yes: Physical, lab or field work · "laboratory"
• No: Live work with people
• No: Judgment someone is accountable for
• No: A craft you practice with your hands or body
• No: Small, in-person format

The checks lean on Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025), which found generative AI applies least to physical work and hands-on work with people. A signal, not a promise. How the score works

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