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Instuctional Software for Anthro/Arch I
Sasha (SFORCE@TRENTU.CA)
Sun, 12 Nov 1995 09:59:12 -0400
This list was compiled with the help of the folks on AIA-L, Anthro-L,
and Arch-L. Updated versions are posted to these lists, and, with
thanks to Don Hanna, are also avaliable through the gopher and WWW pages
of the department of Archaeology at the University of Calgary. Please
forward any updates or contributions to this list to Sasha Force
<sforce@trentu.ca>, so I can keep the list as complete and up-to-date as
possible.
NAME: Archaeology 3
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:
AUTHOR: Brian Fagan <fagan@alishaw.ucsb.edu> and George Michaels
<michaels@alishaw.ucsb.edu>
SUBJECT/DISCIPLINE: archaeology
DESCRIPTION: An archaeology simulation that uses real data from the
Valley of Mexico, Ur of the Chaldees, and Tikal
PUBLISHER/SOURCE: Department of Anthropology, University of California,
Santa Barbara
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NAME: Ancient Cities
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: cd-rom
AUTHOR:
SUBJECT/DISCIPLINE: Archaeology
DESCRIPTION: Features Teotihuacan, Petra, Pompeii and Knossos(?).
Features narrated, travelogue-like "guided tours", click-on maps
featuring photos of major structures, text of articles taken from
Scientific American special issue (June 1994) of same name with
hypertext links to illustrations of scultpure, architecture, etc.
More like a slide show, but perhaps useful as a visual teaching
aid.
PUBLISHER/SOURCE: Scientific American
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NAME: Catalhoyuk
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: WWW Access
AUTHOR: Vanessa S Blake <vsb1001@eng.cam.ac.uk>
SUBJECT/DISCIPLINE: Archaeology
DESCRIPTION: virtual dig of Catal Hueyuek in Turkey
PUBLISHER/SOURCE: http://club.eng.cam.ac.uk/~vsb1001/catal.html
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NAME: Civilization
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: IBM/Mac
AUTHOR: Sid Meier
SUBJECT/DISCIPLINE: Cultural Anthropology
DESCRIPTION: A computer-game simulation in which the player must
'develop' their society into a complex civilization (modelled on
Rome or the ancient Middle East?) while overcoming various
challenges ('barbarian' invasions, imperial rivals, plagues,
famines, etc.).
PUBLISHER/SOURCE: Microprose
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NAME: Colonization
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: IBM/Mac
AUTHOR: Sid Meier
SUBJECT/DISCIPLINE: Cultural Anthropology
DESCRIPTION: This game/simulation just came out this fall, and involves
the player(s) attempting to set up a colonial empire in North
America, coping with imperial rivalries, production/supply issues,
alliances with indigenous peoples, etc.
PUBLISHER/SOURCE: Microprose
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NAME: Evolve
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: Macintosh Apple
AUTHOR:
SUBJECT/DISCIPLINE: Biology, Physical Anthropology
DESCRIPTION: Originally developed for biology, uses the Hardy-Weinberg
model to simulate evolutionary changes in genotype frequency
PUBLISHER/SOURCE:
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NAME: Excavations at Isthmia
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: '040 or better Macintosh, or '386 or better Intel-
based machine running Windows 3.0 or later. 8 meg of Ram is needed
by both platforms as well as 9 meg. of hard disk space
AUTHOR: Samuel B. Fee
SUBJECT/DISCIPLINE: Archaeology
DESCRIPTION:The Excavations at Isthmia multimedia program is a
multimedia application which has been developed to serve as a case
study for the introductorystudies of ancient history and
archaeological field methodology. Within the program, students
will be introduced to many concepts of Greek History and classical
archaeology. The program focuses primarily upon the Ohio State
University excavations in the Roman Bath area of the Sanctuary to
Poseidon at Isthmia; the program also discusses certain
archaeological concepts such as stratigraphy, absolute dating and
relative dating. Features of the program include graphics of the
site, animations, hypertext links, digitized sounds for the
pronounciations of terms, and digital video clips of actual
excavation. The program comes on 6 diskettes and is accompanied
by a manual.
PUBLISHER/SOURCE: Currently negotiations are taking place with several
potential publishers. In its final form, the program will
probably ship on CD-ROM. In the meantime, manual and software
(disks) will be made available for around $16 to anyone requesting
it; please specify computer configuration (Mac or Windows).
Contact: Sam Fee, PO Box 21872, Columbus Ohio 43221
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