Re-discovering Archaeological Discoveries. Experiments with reproducing archaeological survey analysis

Discovering Petra: Archaeological Analysis in VR

n field archaeology, analysis of an excavated region is a meticulous process requiring exploration at a variety of levels. While the act of excavation offers the best way for archaeologists to monitor close-range details, they can use empirically based analysis to analyze only the findings to which they themselves have been exposed. With a team of people excavating, synthesizing the wealth of o...

Theia: Multispectral Image Analysis and Archaeological Survey

Theia is a software framework for multispectral image analysis. The design is grounded on the object-oriented approach and a model combining parallel computation with selective data processing. Multispectral images from the archaeological site of Aquileia, Italy, have been used as the experimental testbed in order to assess the effectiveness and performance of the system; satisfactory results a...

University of California Archaeological Survey

Quality Assurance in Archaeological Survey

To have confidence in the results of an archaeological survey, whether for heritage management or research objectives, we must have some assurance that the survey was carried out to a reasonably high standard. This paper discusses the use of Quality Assurance (QA) approaches and empirical methods for estimating surveys' effectiveness at discovering archaeological artifacts as a means for ensuri...

ArchaeoKM: Managing Archaeological data through Archaeological Knowledge

Nowadays, the use of ontologies in the field of the archaeology is a new direction of research that is not fully tested. Some results are very encouraging and challenge the vision of archaeological sites which cannot be modeled semantically. Most of the researches based on ontology technologies in the archaeology domain are based on the research of finding on a common ground for the interoperab...