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Exploring the Agency of Landscape

Fetched On: May 1st, 2013

Auto-tagged: archaeological geomatics, Uncategorized

Contribution: E. N. van Asperen

Name: E. N. van Asperen

Source Name/URN: Archaeogeomancy: Digital Heritage Specialists

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Entry: http://www.archaeogeomancy.net/2013/05/exploring-the-agency-of-landscape/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=exploring-the-agency-of-landscape

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The symposium The second symposium organised by the EngLaID project will be held on Wednesday 12th June at Keble College Oxford. The call for paper for this symposium is open till May 3rd with abstracts to be sent Dr Laura Morley. The call is as follows: In recent archaeological thinking, it is widely accepted that [...]

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The voice of Easter Island in the British Museum

Fetched On: April 10th, 2013

Auto-tagged: Australia, Computational Archaeology, Digital Archaeology, Photogrammetry

Contribution: P. V. Ponce, A. R. Ogden

Name: P. V. Ponce, A. R. Ogden

Source Name/URN: Archaeological Computing Research Group

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Entry: http://acrg.soton.ac.uk/blog/3169/

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Over the past year myself, Hembo Pagi and Graeme Earl from the ACRG have been working with Mike Pitts, editor of the British Archaeology Journal, on the Hoa Hakananai’a statue at the British Museum. The work included the production of a virtual model, through photogrammetry and a series of Reflectance Transformation Images to study the [...] [...]

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Archaeology Summer Courses at Oxford

Fetched On: February 17th, 2013

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Contribution: David Beard MA, FSA

Name: David Beard MA, FSA

Source Name/URN: Archaeology and the i-Pad

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The Oxford Experience is offering a number of archaeology courses this summer.Each course lasts for one week and participants stay in the 16th century college of Christ Church.The courses offered are:Cathedrals of Britain by James BondAn Introduction t… [...]

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Digital dig: The scanning technology revolutionising archaeology

Fetched On: January 31st, 2013

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Contribution: David Beard MA, FSA

Name: David Beard MA, FSA

Source Name/URN: Archaeology and the i-Pad

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Archaeologists may not need to get their hands so dirty any more, thanks to the kind of digital technology being pioneered at Southampton University.
Its ‘µ-VIS Centre for Computed Tomography’ possesses the largest, high energy scanner of its kind in Europe: a ‘micro-CT’ machine manufactured by Nikon.
Capable of resolutions better than 0.1mm – the diameter of a human hair – it allows archaeologists to carefully examine material while still encased in soil.
Using visualisation software, archaeologists can then analyse their finds in 3D. This keeps the material in its original form, and postpones any commitment to the painstaking process of excavation by hand.
Graeme Earl and Mark Mavrogordato of Southampton University, and Alexandra Baldwin of the Department of Conservation and Scientific Research at the British Museum, explained how they have worked together to unlock the secrets of a cauldron found at a site in Chiseldon, Swindon – the largest archaeological find of its type in Europe.

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Symmetry, STS, Archaeology (Part 1 of 2)

Fetched On: September 30th, 2012

Auto-tagged: Science and Technology Studies

Contribution: Timothy Webmoor

Name: Timothy Webmoor

Source Name/URN: Archaeolog

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Entry: http://traumwerk.stanford.edu/archaeolog/2012/09/symmetry_sts_archaeology_part.html

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Territorial wrangling is a good indicator that there is something emergent which is coveted amongst disciplines. The principle of symmetry, while a topic no longer generating any sustained discussion in its home setting of Science and Technology Studies (STS), is… [...]

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Linked Open Data for the Ancient World at CAA 2012

Fetched On: December 6th, 2011

Auto-tagged: Linked Open Data, Open Data

Contribution: Matteo Romanello

Name: Matteo Romanello

Source Name/URN: Computers for the Classics

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Entry: http://c4tc.wordpress.com/2011/12/06/linked-open-data-for-the-ancient-world-at-caa-2012/

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This year the Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA) conference will be held in Southampton (26-30 March 2012). I will be chairing, together with Dr. Felix Schäfer (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Berlin) and Dr. Prof. Reinhard Förtsch (CoDArchLab University of Cologne), a session on Linked Open Data for the Ancient World.  This session aims to explore the opportunities, challenges and [...] [...]