updated link for part 2 of the modelling potential workshop
Part 2 of the meeting will be webcast at:
http://coursecast.soton.ac.uk/Panopto/Pages/Viewer/Default.
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Crowd annotation of RTI
As part of the on-going AHRC RTI FoF project for the on-line, open source RTI viewer we are working on development of a tool that will encourage scientific co-operation among cultural heritage professionals, being at the same time an enhanced dissemination and presentation tool.
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Modelling the potential for submerged prehistoric archaeology
This wednesday as part of an English Heritage funded project we will be holding a workshop to discuss different options open to archaeologists when considering the potential for submerged prehistoric remains. The session will draw together practitioners from the UK, Denmark and the Netherlands to discuss their experiences and ideas on topics including; deposit modelling, predictive modelling and underwater direct evaluation (sampling/trenching etc).
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Stonehenge, Avebury and a very different Neolithic
Stonehenge is rarely out of the news: whether the reporting of new research and new theories; on-going debates over calls to rebury or retain the Neolithic human remains from the site; and most recently the opening of the long-awaited new Visitor Centre (which is rather good!).
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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles at Portus
Parrot AR Drone at Portus
Since the start of excavations by the Portus Project in 2007, aerial photography has played an important role in the recording, analysis and presentation of the research. The ability for the archaeologist to have a bird’s-eye view of an excavation gives the opportunity to see the plan of structures, their relationships with each and alignments which are not visible at ground level.
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Rode Imaging Event
Few posts ago i wrote about imaging work at St. Nicholas church in Tallinn, Estonia. Now this has grown into bigger collaboration and a co-hosted event in coming May. There will be three speakers from ACRG: Graeme Earl, James Miles and me.
Check the museum’s website for more information and registering .
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Laser Scanning Results from the 2013 Portus Field School
During the 2013 excavation season I completed a number of laser scan models of the site, adding to the already completed laser scan models collected in 2012 at the Palazzo Imperiale.
The main focus of the 2013 season was trialling a new scanner, the Faro Focus 3D, to see how the advancements in scanning time and accuracy could aid our recording of the site.
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Digital representations of the Fennoscandian Iron Age
A story that has been making the rounds on blogs and news websites this week is the Digital Iron Age Environment, a project by Swedish game developer Daniel Westergren. I came across Daniel’s interview with Digital Digging, where he describes his investment in accurately recreating the landscape of Iron Age Uppsala, in eastern Sweden.
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Maritime Bus
Last week the Maritime Bus came to the Avenue Campus on a University Open Day to provide an insight into maritime archaeology for prospective undergraduate students, and to give current postgraduate students training and experience in outreach activities. The Maritime Bus is the only archaeology-themed exhibition of its kind in the UK.
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Update….
We have updated the next two seminars for our CAHO seminar series. Dates and times and abstract for our next talk on the 14th March are available to view now with more to follow….
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