FORMATIVE MUSEUM PERIOD

7Inside and Outside: Residential Burial at Formative Period Chalcatzingo, Mexico

At Chalcatzingo, Mexico, an early regional center, the common location for burials was under house floors, but some high-status burials occurred in more open spaces. These latter were also residential burials, interred within the landed domain of social units. Although both “inside” and “outside” burials drew on claims of ancestral continuity, it is important to explore the differences they ent...

Small islands in the big picture: the formative period of Lapita in the Bismarck Archipelago

The Lazy-S: A Formative Period Iconographic Loan to Maya Hieroglyphic Writing

discovered Monument 31 from the highland site of Chalcatzingo demonstrates for the first time that at least by the Middle Formative Period (900-500 B.C.), the Lazy-S motif, like its Classic Maya counterpart, was associated with both clouds and bloodletting. Although the Lazy-S motif figures prominently in the iconographic corpus at Chalcatzingo, until the analysis of Monument 31 no context exis...

Multimedia in Museum, Museum in Multimedia

The main product of MM for use in the registration activity is the Database (DB) on the artefacts of the museum collections, combining text, images, and graphics. The quality of the images must be appropriate at least to current television standards. The application of such technology will allow the display of images and descriptions on any specific artwork or group of artworks, such as is usua...

Building a VR-Museum in a Museum

Past years have seen the exploitation of multimedia techniques and lately the introduction of virtual reality methods to create new forms of presentation for museums' exhibitions. Virtual Reality can offer a number of advantages to museums, offering a way to overcome some common problems like the lack of space or the need of visitors to interact with the exhibits. A broad categorisation of virt...