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Heritage is everywhere, and an understanding of our past is
increasingly critical to the understanding of our contemporary
cultural context and place in global society. Visual Heritage in
the Digital Age presents the state-of-the-art in the application of
digital technologies to heritage studies, with the chapters
collectively demonstrating the ways in which current developments
are liberating the study, conservation and management of the past.
Digital approaches to heritage have developed significantly over
recent decades in terms of both the quantity and range of
applications. However, rather than merely improving and enriching
the ways in which we understand and engage with the past, this
technology is enabling us to do this in entirely new ways. The
chapters contained within this volume present a broad range of
technologies for capturing data (such as high-definition laser
scanning survey and geophysical survey), modelling (including GIS,
data fusion, agent-based modelling), and engaging with heritage
through novel digital interfaces (mobile technologies and the use
of multi-touch interfaces in public spaces). The case studies
presented include sites, landscapes and buildings from across
Europe, North and Central America, and collections relating to the
ancient civilisations of the Middle East and North Africa. The
chronological span is immense, extending from the end of the last
ice age through to the twentieth century. These case studies reveal
new ways of approaching heritage using digital tools, whether from
the perspective of interrogating historical textual data, or
through the applications of complexity theory and the modelling of
agents and behaviours. Beyond the data itself, Visual Heritage in
the Digital Age also presents fresh ways of thinking about digital
heritage. It explores more theoretical perspectives concerning the
role of digital data and the challenges that are presented in terms
of its management and preservation.
How we understand our shared and individual heritage, interpret and
disseminate that knowledge is increasingly central to contemporary
society. The emerging context for such development is the
field of heritage science. Inherently interdisciplinary, and
involving both the Arts and Humanities, engineering, conservation
and the digital sciences, the development of heritage science is a
driver for change; socially, economically and technically. This
book has gathered contributions from leading researchers from
across the world and provides a series of themed contributions
demonstrating the theoretical, ethical, methodological and
technical methods which lie at the heart of heritage science.
Archaeology, conservation, museology, the arts, forensic sciences,
and heritage management are represented through collaborative
research with specialists in applied technologies including object
and terrestrial laser scanning, multi-spectral imaging,
visualisation, GIS and 3D-printing. Together, the chapters present
important case studies to demonstrate the recent advances and best
practise within the discipline, highlighting the value of digital
transformation across the heritage community that includes objects,
monuments, sites and landscapes spanning two million years of
natural and cultural history from all over the world. Visual
Heritage: Digital Approaches in Heritage Science is aimed at a
broad academic and practice-led readership, which extends across
many disciplines and will be of considerable value to scholars,
practitioners, and students working within heritage and computer
science at all levels. The content, which applies heritage science
across two million years of cultural history will be appreciated by
a general audience, as well as those wishing simply to explore the
vast range of potential technical applications across all the
disciplines represented in the book.
Europe’s Lost Frontiers was the largest directed archaeological
research project undertaken in Europe to investigate the inundated
landscapes of the Early Holocene North Sea – the area frequently
referred to as ‘Doggerland’. Funded through a European Research
Council Advanced Grant (project number 670518), the project ran
from 2015 to 2021, and involved more than 30 academics,
representing institutions spread geographically from Ireland to
China. A vast area of the seabed was mapped, and multiple ship
expeditions were launched to retrieve sediment cores from the
valleys of the lost prehistoric landscapes of the North Sea. This
data has now been analysed to provide evidence of how the land was
transformed in the face of climate change and rising sea levels.
This volume is the first in a series of monographs dedicated to the
analysis and interpretation of data generated by the project. As a
precursor to the publication of the detailed results, it provides
the context of the study and method statements. Later volumes will
present the mapping, palaeoenvironment, geomorphology and modelling
programmes of Europe’s Lost Frontiers. The results of the project
confirm that these landscapes, long held to be inaccessible to
archaeology, can be studied directly and provide an archaeological
narrative. This data will become increasingly important at a time
when contemporary climate change and geo-political crises are
pushing development within the North Sea at an unprecedented rate,
and when the opportunities to explore this unique, heritage
landscape may be significantly limited in the future.
How we understand our shared and individual heritage, interpret and
disseminate that knowledge is increasingly central to contemporary
society. The emerging context for such development is the field of
heritage science. Inherently interdisciplinary, and involving both
the Arts and Humanities, engineering, conservation and the digital
sciences, the development of heritage science is a driver for
change; socially, economically and technically. This book has
gathered contributions from leading researchers from across the
world and provides a series of themed contributions demonstrating
the theoretical, ethical, methodological and technical methods
which lie at the heart of heritage science. Archaeology,
conservation, museology, the arts, forensic sciences, and heritage
management are represented through collaborative research with
specialists in applied technologies including object and
terrestrial laser scanning, multi-spectral imaging, visualisation,
GIS and 3D-printing. Together, the chapters present important case
studies to demonstrate the recent advances and best practise within
the discipline, highlighting the value of digital transformation
across the heritage community that includes objects, monuments,
sites and landscapes spanning two million years of natural and
cultural history from all over the world. Visual Heritage: Digital
Approaches in Heritage Science is aimed at a broad academic and
practice-led readership, which extends across many disciplines and
will be of considerable value to scholars, practitioners, and
students working within heritage and computer science at all
levels. The content, which applies heritage science across two
million years of cultural history will be appreciated by a general
audience, as well as those wishing simply to explore the vast range
of potential technical applications across all the disciplines
represented in the book.
Heritage is everywhere, and an understanding of our past is
increasingly critical to the understanding of our contemporary
cultural context and place in global society. Visual Heritage in
the Digital Age presents the state-of-the-art in the application of
digital technologies to heritage studies, with the chapters
collectively demonstrating the ways in which current developments
are liberating the study, conservation and management of the past.
Digital approaches to heritage have developed significantly over
recent decades in terms of both the quantity and range of
applications. However, rather than merely improving and enriching
the ways in which we understand and engage with the past, this
technology is enabling us to do this in entirely new ways. The
chapters contained within this volume present a broad range of
technologies for capturing data (such as high-definition laser
scanning survey and geophysical survey), modelling (including GIS,
data fusion, agent-based modelling), and engaging with heritage
through novel digital interfaces (mobile technologies and the use
of multi-touch interfaces in public spaces). The case studies
presented include sites, landscapes and buildings from across
Europe, North and Central America, and collections relating to the
ancient civilisations of the Middle East and North Africa. The
chronological span is immense, extending from the end of the last
ice age through to the twentieth century. These case studies reveal
new ways of approaching heritage using digital tools, whether from
the perspective of interrogating historical textual data, or
through the applications of complexity theory and the modelling of
agents and behaviours. Beyond the data itself, Visual Heritage in
the Digital Age also presents fresh ways of thinking about digital
heritage. It explores more theoretical perspectives concerning the
role of digital data and the challenges that are presented in terms
of its management and preservation.
12,000 years ago the area that now forms the southern North Sea was
dry land: a vast plain populated by Mesolithic hunter-gatherers. By
5,500 BC the entire area had disappeared beneath the sea as a
consequence of rising sea levels. Until now, this unique landscape
remained hidden from view and almost entirely unknown. The North
Sea Palaeolandscape Project, funded by the Aggregates Levy
Sustainability Fund, have mapped 23,000 km2 of this lost world
using seismic data collected for mineral exploration. Mapping
Doggerland demonstrates that the North Sea covers one of the
largest and best preserved prehistoric landscapes in Europe. In
mapping this exceptional landscape the project has begun to provide
an insight into the historic impact of the last great phase of
global warming experienced by modern man and to assess the
significance of the massive loss of European land that occurred as
a consequence of climate change. Contents: 1) Mapping Doggerland
Vincent Gaffney and Kenneth Thomson; 2) Coordinating Marine Survey
Data Sources (Mark Bunch, Vincent Gaffney and Kenneth Thomson); 3)
3D Seismic Reflection Data, Associated Technologies and the
Development of the Project Methodology (Kenneth Thomson and Vincent
Gaffney); 4. Merging Technologies: The integration and
visualisation of spatial data sets used in the project (Simon
Fitch, Vincent Gaffney and Kenneth Thomson); 5) A Geomorphological
Investigation of Submerged Depositional Features within the Outer
Silver Pit, Southern North Sea (Simon Fitch, Vincent Gaffney and
Kenneth Thomson; 6) Salt Tectonics in the Southern North Sea:
Controls on Late Pleistocene-Holocene Geomorphology (Simon Holford,
Kenneth Thomson and Vincent Gaffney); 7) AnAtlas of the
Palaeolandscapes of the Southern North Sea (Simon Fitch, Vincent
Gaffney, Kenneth Thomson with Kate Briggs, Mark Bunch and Simon
Holford); 8) The Potential of the Organic Archive for Environmental
Reconstruction: An Assessment of Selected Borehole Sediments from
the Southern North Sea (David Smith, Simon Fitch, Ben Gearey, Tom
Hill, Simon Holford, Andy Howard and Christina Jolliffe); 9)
Heritage Management and the North Sea Palaeolandscapes Project
(Simon Fitch, Vincent Gaffney and Kenneth Thomson).
The landscape of Fort Hood, in central Texas, presents
archaeologists and cultural resource managers with some of their
most exacting but absorbing challenges. That much is clear from the
activities of the many archaeologists and heritage managers who
have sought to use the extensive cultural database and unique
landscape of the base as a test bed for research and management
methodologies. This project, carried out as an international
collaboration between the Fort Hood Cultural Resource Management
Team and the Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity (University of
Birmingham, UK), sought to provide a novel application of historic
landscape characterisation (HLC) methodologies at the base. For
decades, the effective stewardship and management of cultural
resources at Fort Hood, Texas, has proven to be a formidable
challenge. Balancing this responsibility with the Army mission at
Fort Hood, which includes ongoing intensive mechanized training
across a 217,000-acre military reservation, has tested the
abilities of even the most capable of cultural resource managers.
The identification of over 2,000 archaeological sites on the
installation, while a great accomplishment, pales in comparison to
the demands of determining site significance. Now, with this
innovative historic landscape characterization study, the authors
have presented us with an extraordinary opportunity to view these
resources within the context of a cultural landscape that
systematically considers the multiple roles of Fort Hood. It is
hoped that this will facilitate the move from significance
determinations that are site-specific to ones based upon, as the
authors state, the concepts of group value and spatial
relationships at a landscape level. The accompanying CD (displaying
selected data layers provided as Google Earth layers) assists
readers in viewing and interpreting the data and the value of HLC
procedures and output for the purposes of heritage management.
Contents: 1. The Origins and Aims of the Fort Hood Historic
Landscape Characterisation Project; 2) Approaches to historic
landscape characterisation; 3) Fort Hood in Context; 4) The Fort
Hood archaeological database; 5) The historic landscape
characterisation project.
The third volume in The Adriatic Islands Project, The work
utilises, essentially, the same research methodologies developed
for survey on Hvar and Brae. The continuing reliance of project
staff on complex computer technologies to store and analyse the
large project databases also remains, and the impact of the
increasing sophistication of these technologies for display of data
can be seen in this publication. This book, covering prehistory to
medieval times, is divided into two parts, reflecting the diverse
nature of the areas under study.
Croatia has a unique geographical and historical position within
Europe, bridging central and south-east Europe. From the Pannonian
Plain to the southern Adriatic maritime landscape,
interconnectedness flows through Croatia's history. This dynamic
past is increasingly being reflected upon by a new and exciting
generation of Croatian scholars who are firmly embedded within a
strong national tradition of archaeology but who also look outward
to draw insights into the nature of material culture they encounter
in Croatia and Croatian identity itself. Croatia at the Crossroads
(24-25 June, Europe House, London) provided the opportunity to
reflect upon such interconnectedness and Croatia's historic place
within Europe. This event typified the desire of Croatian
archaeologists to engage with such matters on an international
level and to situate their scholarship within broader regional
dynamics. Following the foundation of the new Croatian state, the
opportunities for new forms of engagement have grown. This has
stimulated thinking regarding both approaches to archaeology and
the potential cultural cross-fertilisation that has resulted in
Croatia's rich archaeological and historical record. This has led
to in new, exciting understandings of archaeological material, and
this was revealed in contributions to the Croatia at the Crossroads
conference. The papers published here arise from the exceptionally
interesting presentations and discussions held in London at the
conference. Each of them takes Croatia's particular
interconnectedness in terms of social and cultural relationships
with the wider region as the starting point for exploring issues
across a broad chronological range, from human origins to
modernity. Within this, contributors pick up on a variety of
different fields of interconnectedness and forms of interaction
including biological, cultural, religious, military, trade, craft
and maritime relationships. In many ways, these papers represent
opening conversations that explore ways of thinking about new and
established data sets that are entering Croatian scholarship for
the first time. They also act as a set of complementary discussions
that transcend traditional period and national boundaries. We hope
that by bringing them together the volume will provide an insight
into current trends in Croatian archaeology and stimulate fruitful
discussions regarding future directions.
The first volume from the Adriatic Islands project comprises the
results from a thorough survey and mapping of the Dalmatian island
of Hvar in Croatia. The area has long played an important role on
trade routes between Italy and Illyria and Greece. There is a great
deal of Neolithic archaeology, Bronze and Iron age burial monuments
and much Greco-Roman material. The bulk of this book is a gazetter
of around 800 sites, each of them having been visited by members of
the team. The entries include plans, descriptions and references.
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