Week five in Italian
Eleonora Gandolfi has translated the activities from week five into Italian to add to our overview of the course. More Italian materials are on the way.
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Conservation and computational imaging technologies
Silver roman imperatorial denarius of Julius Caesar, CAESAR /Aeneas advancing to front, holding Palladium in palm of right hand and carrying father Anchises on left shoulder (O 19 mm), Archaeological Museum of Amphipolis, clockwise from top left: digital image, comparison between PTM (top) and a standard computer graphic approximation (below), normal map and RTI visualization in specular enhancement rendering mode (c) Eleni Kotoula
I’m Eleni Kotoula, a PhD student in the Archaeological...
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Scientific analysis of human remains
You have seen in the course in the Scientific Finds Analysis step this week the range of ways in which finds are analysed. I wanted to mention one form of analysis I have been involved with that relates to those techniques employed at Portus.
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The Portus MOOC and modelling
Having been focussing on my Symposium presentation, and then taking a week camping with the family in France, I’ve finally caught up with the other students on the Portus MOOC, which I’d had a sneak preview of some months back. We’re two thirds of the way through the course, which is a bit late for catching up, but never mind.
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Sharing links
David Potts who is a PhD student in the Archaeological Computing Research Group at Southampton has extracted the links that were shared on the platform in the first few weeks. We will update this list to help you to build your own reference collections of supplementary material. Add the end of the course we will archive these links to scoop.it and delicious.com to make them more accessible.
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Cross-referencing my thesis to the course
Amphora burial
I provided a link to my PhD thesis early on in the course in Week One on the Find of the Week – amphora sherds from Leptis Magna step. In addition to this step I thought you might be interested to follow through from other steps to my thesis and vice versa. The “direct links” *should* take you to specific pages in the thesis, but the behaviour varies according to your device and setup. You can access the whole thesis in any case from the reference below.
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Summary of week four in Italian
It has been a busy journey from looking at the whole Roman Empire in the Claudian period to thinking last week about the later second century hinterland of Portus. Eleonora has posted a summary of the topics in Italian on the Italian version of this blog. As ever you can contact her via twitter or posting comments on the blog.
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[Advanced] Analyse some palaeo-environmental core data – comments
Advanced Palaeoenvironmental Step Copyright Ferréol Salomon
Thanks for all your interesting comments on my [Advanced] step. Lots of hypotheses have been proposed! You all described very well the core sequences. Congratulation! Different sedimentary behaviors can be observed: Claudius’ basin shows sand accretion, whereas the access channel to Trajan’s basin shows mud accumulation.
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Telling stories in museums and Portus as an archaeological park
Markets of Trajan
Portus was recently a case study in a conference held, appropriately enough, in the Markets of Trajan at Rome on museology across the world.
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The Past in Pieces: Lego and Lost Civilisations
Matthew Tyler-Jones:A great post and the second time this week that the Antikythera Mechanism has been brought to my attention
Originally posted on res gerendae:
As I think I may have mentioned once or twice, I was a Lego-mad child. Of all the things under the tree on Christmas morning, Lego was always the most prized. Like many, I ‘grew out of’ Lego in my teens, only to come back to it as I’ve got older and had more disposable income.
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