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(1758–1838)
Born into an aristocratic banking family, Colt Hoare was financially independent and thus able to pursue a career of leisure. After the premature death of his wife he assuaged his grief by traveling around Europe for two years, a journey that stimulated his interest in monuments and antiquities. He returned to Britain to become Baron Hoare in 1787, then continued his European travels, visiting archaeological sites and drawing them for the next three years, until the French Revolution made it impossible to remain on the continent.
It was this impasse that caused him to visit Wales, England, and Ireland, drawing the monuments of his own country. Between 1812 and 1821 he illustrated and published the two-volume Ancient History of North and South Wiltshire and the History of Ancient Wiltshire. These contained accounts of Stonehenge and avebury, of Roman roads and sites, and of hundreds of barrows that he had explored with his protégé william cunnington. These books can be seen as the first attempts at recording the archaeology of a particular region.
Colt Hoare was a fellow of the Royal Society and the society of antiquaries of london, and he wrote numerous books, printed for private circulation, on history, architecture, and the archaeological sites, artifacts, and monuments of Europe, England, Wales, and Ireland. He financed his own archaeology team—composed of Cunnington, draftsman Philip Crocker, and special workmen—and he believed that excavations should be able to answer questions about the past. Unfortunately the answers to the big questions, such as who it was who actually built the monuments he caused to be excavated or recorded, remained elusive.
Colt Hoare saw himself as a historian, with his arguments based on facts and not on speculation, as were those of william stukeley. He was one of the first of the new generation of Romantic aristocratic gentlemen who were travelers, adventurers, artists, and journalist-writer-historians who were also keen barrow diggers. Such antiquaries featured strongly in the pursuit of the understanding of the past during last years of the eighteenth and the early nineteenth centuries, their position both chronologically and ideologically somewhere in between the antiquarians of the Enlightenment, and the professional archaeologists of the mid-nineteenth century.
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Britain, Prehistoric Archaeology
The application of computers to deal with archaeological problems has evolved from the statistical applications of the late 1950s and early 1960s to the current information technology (IT) approach. The development of ever-more user-friendly computer technology has encouraged the adoption of computers among a wider range of archaeologists than just those interested in quantitative analysis. It has been argued that the growing popularity of computer use is mainly owing to the fact that it can facilitate enormously the dissemination of archaeological information to a more generalized public at a relatively low cost. Some archaeologists have even seen the adoption of IT in archaeology as a subdiscipline in its own right. A series of specialized journals and regular meetings attest to
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