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Computer Projects in Classics

Several web-based projects originate in the Department of Classics. Archaeologists in the Department are leaders in the electronic publication of archaeological data. The Department maintains an on-line version of the journal Nestor and makes available other Classics-related databases.

Departmental Projects include:

MRAP

MRAP (The Mallaskastra Regional Archaeological Project) is a multi-disciplinary and diachronic archaeological expedition formally organized in 1996 to investigate the history of prehistoric and historic settlement and land use in central Albania, in an area centered on the Greek colony of Apollonia. The project is employing the techniques of intensive archaeological surface survey in conjunction with natural menvironmental investigations.

Fieldwork is sponsored by the University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio,United States of America, and the Institute of Archaeology,Tirana, Albania, and is jointly directed by Jack Davis and Muzafer Korkuti.

The web site for the MRAP project is: http://river.blg.uc.edu/mrap/MRAP_en.html.

Nestor

Nestor is a monthly journal published during the academic year; it compiles bibliographic references to publications that concern the prehistoric Aegean and related areas. This unique journal originated at the University of Indiana in 1954 and has been published by the University of Cincinnati since 1995. Since 1996, all bibliographic entries have been available searching on the Internet. The current Faculty Sponsor of Nestor is Gisela Walberg and the Editor is Carol Hershenson. Nestor's Home Page is http://classics.uc.edu/nestor/nestor.html

Iris

Our Slide Curator Kathleen Quinn is improving our slide database, and the new version will be online soon. Meanwhile, the search engine devloped in previous years used by the Department to locate slides is available to outside users via the Internet. Recent discussion on several email lists has focused on the best way in which to create a slide database and to make data available. We believe that we have found a satisfactory solution to these problems and invite you to see for yourself. Only descriptions of slides, not the images themselves, are available at present. Iris' Home Page is http://classics.uc.edu/iris/

PRAP

Since 1991, Professor Jack Davis has led an international team in a archaeological survey of western Messenia in Greece, around the Bronze Age administrative center known as Palace of Nestor in Pylos. The results of this investigation are now being definitively published. As part of the publication program, a web site has been established where much of the raw data gathered by the project is available. The PRAP Home Page is http://classics.lsa.umich.edu/PRAP.html

Nemea Valley Archaeological Project

Jack Davis also contributes to a public Web site describing the results of the Archaeological Survey sponsored by the Nemea Valley Archaeological Project. This site currently contains a description of the goals of the survey; a complete and illustrated gazetteer of the approximately 100 sites investigated by the project; a bibliography of all NVAP publications to date; a searchable data base containing all photographic images in the project's archive; and various maps of the area examined by the survey (showing, among other things, patterns in artifact density, modern land use, the shapes and sizes of sites, and the relationship between the site of Tsoungiza and other archaeological sites at the head of the valley of Ancient Nemea). The NVAP home page is http://rome.classics.lsa.umich.edu/NVAP/html/NVAP.html.