Abstract

What is sought in this article is present a series of new and different applications that had not been carried out up to now in the archaeological investigation, concretely in the systems of the archaeological record, using Geographic Information Systems[GIS in Archaeology] and terrestrial digital photogrammetry, understanding for it the branch of the photogrammetry that uses as data of entrance terrestrial pictures, not aerial. The necessity that we have of registering all archaeological evidence in the different field works that we develop takes us to an enormous storing of data of diverse nature, but that they have a common nexus. That point of union, most of the times, are merely spatial. In our current investigations we give an excellent importance to the fact that a certain archaeological material is located here or there regarding some well-known point. The same raisin with the archaeological and geological levels. The space situation can give us, many times, more information than the own materials or levels. For example we can know how those materials have arrived up to place where we discover them, if it has been for the man's action or of some animal one or simply for causes of the own Nature. If we analyze this way, individually, one at one, the materials or levels can fall in the error of make a partial reading and allow us to take for the theory that more we need it, usually the easiest interpretation. This can be avoid relating some levels with other, the materials of oneself level, and even the diverse materials of all the archaeological levels. This whole lattice needs of the necessary tools for, only not to pick up the data but storing them in such way ,that we can carry out complex questions to the record and responds us quickly and effectiveness. That structures the entrance data well to give an exit corresponding to the objectives that we mark ourselves in the research that we are carrying out. As it is already known by everybody, the GIS carry out that function: introduction, structuration and exit of data. We also know that the entrance of data is not only one of the most expensive tasks. Also the selection of data according to the ends or objectives that we pursue. I have been able to check that it is not enough a tool that manages a geographical potent database. This has to be supplemented with an instrument or method that it allows to capture the data required. Here it is where the Photogrammetry is introduced, as a group of methods and operations that allow the making of topographical maps and planes. In this case we will center in the application of the Terrestrial Photogrammetry, because the pictures used are obtained in the settlement. And we will see the stereogrammetry, application of stereoscopic pictures. This is a field that works with 3D models that helps us to maintain the necessary space relationship among different study objects. The whole exhibition will be supplemented with examples carried out indifferent Spanish archaeological settlements ( El Mirón Cave, Cantabria, Torralba y Ambrona, Soria) where in some, they stay the traditional records systems and in other, they begin to introduce innovations.