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‘This does not compute’: the All-American Pipeline Project revisited

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Neal W. Ackerly
Neal W. Ackerly*
Affiliation:
Dos Rios Consultants, Inc., P.O. Box 1247, Silver City NM 88062, USA
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Abstract

In 1989, ANTIQUITY published the ambitions and methods of a remarkable project to automate and computerize the recording and analysis of artefacts from a very large salvage program in the western United States. Here is a follow-up that explains why the methods did not realize the ambitions, and questions whether those ambitions were well chosen.

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Antiquity , Volume 69 , Issue 264 , September 1995 , pp. 596 - 601
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1995

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References

Ackerly, N.W. In press. On computers in archaeology: lessons from the All-American Pipeline Project, in Ross, S. (ed.), Electronic information in archaeology: opportunities and obstacles. Oxford: Oxbow Books.Google Scholar
Plog, F. & Carlson, D.L. 1989. Computer applications for the All American Pipeline Project, Antiquity 63: 258–67.CrossRefGoogle Scholar