Portus Field School in Archaeology Abroad
Check out the Portus Head on the cover of Archaeology Abroad!
The Field School is featured on page 99 and application is still...
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The voice of Easter Island in the British Museum
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 petroglyphs found on the statue.
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Archaeology at Science and Engineering Week
Saturday 16th March marked the start of Science and Engineering week at the University of Southampton.
Archaeology was very well represented – with both ancient science and technology and much more modern scientific analyses on display for people to try out and investigate.
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#CAAPerth Day Four
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11:38
Interesting to get statistics on usage in the field next season – can get at issues then of serendipitous discovery perhaps. Also discussion of potential impact (good and bad) on evolving archaeology on the site of accessing information before it has been in some way checked or otherwise curated. Also is the immediacy of connection between the field and the spceialists. This relates to ongoing work on fieldwork ethnographies as part of the RCUK Patina Project.
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#CAAPerth Day Three
I am jumping between sessions today.
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10:46
Off to chair session S30 – Computational approaches towards artefacts studies (on behalf of Eleni Kotoula). Session starting at 11:00.
10:45
Examining spatial relationships along the street front.
10:42
Explored overlapping isovists to explore movement around the city, and visual overlaps in order to create visibility connections.
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#CAAPerth Day Two – afternoon sessions
I am in a few sessions this afternoon.
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#CAAPerth Day Two – S1 – 3D recording, data capture and visualisation technologies for Rock Art
Chair(s): Geoff Avern, Jo McDonald
Discussant(s): Geoff Avern, Jo McDonald
Format: Long Paper Presentation with Roundtable
Schedule: Tuesday 26th 10:30 – 15:00
Room: Auditorium
Venue: University of Western Australia Club
Details from: http://caa2013.org/drupal/sessions
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12:35
Finished for lunch.
12:30
Q&A: noting that more data is not necessarily a good thing. You can end up with problems due to multiple errors.
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#CAAPerth Day Two – opening and first keynote
Day two at @CAAPerth started with an introduction to the conference by Gary Lock. He thanked in particular Arianna Traviglia who brought this week’s events to fruition. Thanks Arianna! Gary noted that c. 250 had made it to CAA this year – the 41st year CAA has run – with at least 100 from Australia, representing another increase in CAA#s audience. Gary also noted the Nick Ryan bursary which is for current students.
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#CAAPerth – ACRG involvement
Members of the ACRG are out in force at this year’s Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA) conference at the University of Western Australia, Perth. Today there were workshops on complex systems simulation and reflectance transformation imaging organised by Tom Brughmans and Iza Romanowska, and by James Miles and Hembo Pagi.
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Search And Mining Tools 1500 15-3-2013
Search And Mining Tools 1500...
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