Virtual Archaeology as an Integrated Preservation Method

Telearch - Integrated Visual Simulation Environment for Collaborative Virtual Archaeology

Archaeologists collect vast amounts of digital data around the world; however, they lack tools for integration and collaborative interaction to support reconstruction and interpretation process. TeleArch software is aimed to integrate different data sources and provide real-time interaction tools for remote collaboration of geographically distributed scholars inside a shared virtual environment...

Towards a virtual archaeology

There is a long tradition of recording archaeological contexts. Early accounts are typically a bald statement of the kind: 'a Roman floor was found.' Later, longer textual descriptions appear. The correctness and truth of the observation or interpretation was confirmed by the personal standing of the reporter (cf. Hodder 1989). The more cautious added weight to their view by including another e...

Navigation Functionality for Virtual Archaeology

The paper reports the ongoing functional specification of a virtual archaeology system. Taking into account the goals of ISO standards MPEG-7 and SEDRIS, we have summarized methodologies from related IT fields (visualization, multimedia, HCI and VR) relevant for virtual archaeology system functionality. One part of the ideas has been used to specify the functionality of a particular system for ...

Integrated Support for Data Archaeology,

Corporate databases are potentially rich sources of new and valuable knowledge. Various approaches to "discovering" or "mining" such knowledge have been proposed. We identify an important and previously ignored discovery task, data archaeology. Data archaeology is a skilled human task, in which the knowledge sought depends on the goals of the analyst, cannot be specified in advance, and emerges...

Parasitology as an Interpretive Tool in Archaeology