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The exponential growth of the Web and the availability of large number of digital datasets revealed the need for integrated access to heterogeneous and autonomous data sources. In the Cultural Heritage domain, ARIADNE supports transparent integration by means of an advanced metadata schema, based on CIDOC CRM, and adapted to the needs of archaeology. In this paper we present the mappings of two...

This study uses remote sensing techniques to study ahu (monumental ceremonial platforms) on the island of Rapa Nui (Easter Island). The first phase of the project used commercial satellite images to locate ahu and create a comprehensive GIS database to be corroborated during future ground survey. To supplement the satellite images, a second phase of the study evaluated kite photography a low-co...

The protection and conservation attempts of ancient monumental heritage of the city of Hierapolis of Phrygia, during the last few years, are more delineated than in the past as inevitably connected to the environment context, which is characterized by the more extended and significant limestone concretions phenomenon in the world. Studies, excavation works, ancient monuments restorations, carri...

A paleoparasitological survey to detect helminth eggs was performed in archaeological sites of Jeolla-do and Jeju-do, the Republic of Korea. Total 593 soil samples were collected in 12 sites of Jeolla-do and 5 sites of Jeju-do from April to November 2011, and examined by the methods of Pike and coworkers. A total of 4 helminth eggs, 2 eggs each for Trichuris trichiura and Ascaris sp., were foun...

Introduction The Peloponnese is a large area, and as such has attracted much archaeological interest. The volume of reported material means that there are some significant emerging trends visible in the data for 2010. First, as in other areas of Greece, there is a significant push towards interdisciplinary research, with archaeological science, careful contextualized readings of primary sources...

A “3D photo-logging system,” a new method for recording archaeological sites, was developed. The prototype system consists of several servers running on a single machine and logging units composed of a camera phone equipped with a motion sensor attached to the mobile phone and a GPS sensor, and a notebook PC for logging the position and orientation of the camera phone. Using the 3D photo-loggin...

A wealth of information on cultural heritage coming from archaeological investigations exists in the form of geometric information. Here we want to question how this geometric information relates back to the reality it was intended to document. Building upon the CIDOC CRM an ontology to represent data for cultural heritage we apply CRMgeo, an extension to the CIDOC CRM that treats space always ...

kooh-e khajeh (kajeh mountain), with 120m height and 2-2.5km in diameter, is located at hamoon lake like an island. since the archaic era, due to its specific geopolitical location, religious sacredness, and the natural beauty especially at the times of water-richness at hamoon, this place caused the formation of settlements. based on an intensive archaeological survey conducted in this region...

Shallow depth geophysical data from archaeological sites contain various levels and types of noise that hinters the valuable information of the subsurface architectural relics. Wavelet transform techniques were tested as a method for decomposition of the original geophysical data in order to eliminate the noise levels inherent to the geophysical measurements. In addition to the above, unsupervi...