The Lippen Wood Roman Villa, West Meon, Hants. Excavated 1905–6

The Mind in Motion: Walking and Metaphorical Travel in the Roman Villa

Fruits and Nuts of the Villa Farnesina

named Agostino Chigi (1466–1520) decided to build a new home for himself that was to be the most splendid in Rome. A banker to popes and kings, Chigi’s modus operandi was to lend money and, in return, obtain monopolies for such things as importation of grain or production of alum from mines. He often accepted jewelry for “security.” He was in a sense a pawnbroker and a wheeler-dealer who struct...

The 2012 UT Austin Villa Code Release

In 2012, UT Austin Villa claimed the Standard Platform League championships at both the US Open and the 2012 RoboCup competition held in Mexico City. This paper describes the code release associated with the team and discusses the key contributions of the release. This release will enable teams entering the Standard Platform League and researchers using the Naos to have a solid foundation from ...

Virtual Recovery of Excavated Archaeological Finds

This work aims at a virtual recovery of excavated archaeological finds in cyberspace for ancient relic preservation, archaeology research, and multimedia material generation. Many excavated pottery artifacts have already suffered from a certain degree of damage when they are discovered. Archaeologists have to spend much time in restoring broken pieces before an unearthed object can be displayed...

Agriculture in Roman Britain

I F we consider that agriculture employed a majority of the population in non-industrial societies and is still man's staple occupation, we must ad-mit that the agriculture of Roman Britain has concerned archaeologists and historians much less than it should, for on its vicissitudes depended to no small degree the well-being and decline of the province. The existence of Roman 'villas' was first...