Nuovi linguaggi e “vecchie tecnologie”: comunicare la conoscenza archeologica attraverso la rete

This paper will briefly discuss the development of networking communication technologies in the archaeology field. Internet technologies could introduce a new communication structure with the use of interactivity and hypermedia: but until now archaeological web sites still operate fundamentally through language, using almost exclusively a “symbolic-reconstructive” cognitive way that is a linguistic way; on the other hand another way of knowledge transmission is a “perceptive-motor” based on repeating cycles of perception-action-perception. Technologies that are web based, both visual and interactive, allow us to learn and exchange knowledge by-passing the linguistic barrier. Nowadays the computer is able to simulate a universe and make it available for human perceptive-motor activity. The constructivist learning theory often informs these new approaches, however, transplanting learning theory to the web poses unique challenges