Abstract:

ABSTRACT
Drawing is a fundamental activity in all archaeological praxis. The emergence and
spread of the Massive Data Acquisition Systems (MDAS) have completely revolutionized this
documentation area, so that someone has announced his “death”. Not surprisingly the MDAS
have radically changed the concept that we have about archaeological drawing. But this change
has been made without planning or without a discussion of what should be his objectives. In this
article we try to explain the problems and advantages of using MDAS and above all to reflect
on what role they can play in archaeology in order to make them really useful and effective.