The increasing economic viability of mobile devices has lead to a new breed of computational tools that can be applied to existing problems. Archaeological excavation is one application area to which mobile devices are being used and a range of tools that aid in this domain are being developed. However as archaeologists use a variety of these tools in recording data there becomes the need to st...

The papapresents the results of the project CORARC, funded by the Italian Ministry for University and Scientific Research. aimcd at developing a Wcb based system, called SITUS, to support the management of information for archaeological sites. Thc system supports, through a relational database and a G I s server, the archival and management of multiniedia and cartographic data coming fsom a s t...

This paper introduces the Laconia Acropolis Virtual Archaeology project (LAVA), a co-operative archaeological learning environment that has been developed to address the need for students to be able to engage with realistic archaeological excavation scenarios. The practice of fieldwork lies at the heart of archaeology yet poses particular problems for the learning of the subject. The opportunit...

Every archaeological excavation must deal with a vast number of ceramic fragments. The documentation, administration and scientific processing of these fragments represent a temporal, personnel, and financial problem. We are developing an automated classification and reconstruction system for archaeological fragments. The goal is to relate different fragments belonging to the same vessel based ...

This paper presents an approach for using 2D architectural plans to automatically generate 3D environments which can be used as the basis for archaeological excavation scenarios, delivered through networked, multi-user learning environments. The approach discussed in this paper has been developed as part of the LAVA project, which aims to provide support for explorative learning of archaeologic...

Archaeological excavations are often irreversibly destructive, so it is important to accompany them with detailed documentation reflecting the accumulated knowledge of the excavation site. This documentation is usually iconographic and textual. Graphical representations of archaeological sites such as drawings, sketches, watercolors, photographs, topography, and photogrammetry are indispensable...

INTRODUCTION At the invitation of the Dean and Chapter of Rochester Cathedral, the Canterbury Archaeological Trust carried out an excavation within the Lay cemetery of the Cathedral during April and May 1990. This project, funded by the Cathedral authorities, was undertaken before work began on the consolidation of the foundations of the Chair Store, which is situated between the west side of t...

Electronic reference S. Campana, L. Marasco, A. Pecci, Luis Barba, S. Piro and D. Zamuner, « Integration of ground remote sensing surveys and archaeological excavation to characterize the medieval mound (Scarlino, Tuscany-Italy) », ArcheoSciences [Online], 33 (suppl.) | 2009, Online since 30 October 2011, connection on 30 September 2016. URL : http://archeosciences.revues.org/1442 ; DOI : 10.40...

In considering the possibility of the existence of Extraterrestrial Intelligence, an independent means of verifying eyewitness accounts of flying saucers and alien beings on Earth is proposed. The approach would be an archaeological one whereby various archaeological surveying and excavation techniques would be used to examine an alleged landing or crash site of an extraterrestrial craft. The a...