CAHO Seminar Series 2012-11-05 17:11:20

9th November, Wymer Lab (Archaeology Building 65a, Avenue Campus)

The second CAHO seminar will be given by Professor Uzy Smilansky from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

 

“Computer-based documentation and analysis of stone artefacts in 3D”

This talk will review recent work carried out at the Computerized Archaeology Laboratory at the Hebrew University (Jerusalem) together with Dr Leore Grosman and others. The laboratory is equipped with 3 optical scanners which provide high resolution digitized 3D models, which are further elaborated to document and study archaeological artefacts. Focussing on lithics, I shall review our software for positioning and extraction of geometric measures of stone tools, and then elaborate on various other applications such as e.g., characterization of post-depositional damages due to the action of rolling by waves or flows and the computerized identification of scars and ridges on tool surfaces and their significance in typology.

 

All welcome!

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I am a postgraduate research student at the Institute for Complex Systems Simulation and the Centre for the Archaeology of Human Origins. I received my undergraduate and Master degrees in Prehistoric and Medieval Archaeology from the Jagiellonian University (Poland) in 2008. In 2012 I obtained a Master in Philosophy in ‘Archaeology of Human Origins’ from the University of Southampton. I am currently enrolled at the Doctoral Training Centre in Complex Systems Simulation where I have completed the first taught year, an equivalent to a Master in Computer Science, and I continue my studies as a PhD student. My research is focused on the applications of computational modelling to archaeology and Palaeolithic archaeology in particular. I use a variety of simulation techniques to explore archaeological questions, test hypotheses and formalise conceptual models.

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