scholarly journals The Virtual Museum of the Tiber Valley Project

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (7) ◽  
pp. 97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonia Arnoldus Huyzendveld ◽  
Marco Di Ioia ◽  
Daniele Ferdani ◽  
Augusto Palombini ◽  
Valentina Sanna ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Virtual Museum ◽  
Multimedia Contents ◽  
Ancient City ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Under Construction ◽  
Tiber Valley ◽  
Potential Landscape ◽  
Knowledge Valorisation

<p>The aim of the Virtual Museum of the Tiber Valley project is the creation of an integrated digital system for the knowledge, valorisation and communication of the cultural landscape, archaeological and naturalistic sites along the Tiber Valley, in the Sabina area between Monte Soratte and the ancient city of Lucus Feroniae (Capena). Virtual reality applications, multimedia contents, together with a web site, are under construction and they will be accessed inside the museums of the territory and in a central museum in Rome. The different stages of work will cover the building of a geo-spatial archaeological database, the reconstruction of the ancient potential landscape and the creation of virtual models of the major archaeological sites. This paper will focus on the methodologies used and on present and future results.</p>

scholarly journals VIRTUAL MUSEUMS FOR LANDSCAPE VALORIZATION AND COMMUNICATION

2017 ◽  
Vol XLII-2/W5 ◽  
pp. 575-582 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Pietroni
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Multidisciplinary Approach ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Virtual Museum ◽  
Cultural Patterns ◽  
The Public ◽  
Real Time Visualization ◽  
A Minor ◽  
Tiber Valley ◽  
Holistic Vision

Research in the domain of landscape virtual reconstructions has been mainly focused on digitization and recording inside GIS systems, or real time visualization, paying a minor attention to the development of a methodological approach for the landscape narration, combing different registers, conceptual, emotional incitements and, thus, able to arouse in the public a feeling of emotional “sensing” and self- identification. The landscape reflects also the human activities in the territory and the communities’ cultural patterns, their sense of “belonging”. In a virtual museum of landscapes, the multidisciplinary approach, the multiplication of perspectives and voices, storytelling, acquire primary importance. A Virtual Museum of landscapes should integrate both holistic and delimited visions. The holistic vision requires a diachronic approach, including both present and past phases of life. On the other side, delimited, or “monographic”, representations are useful to go deeper into specific and exemplar stories, regarding specific groups of people.<br><br> Beside, the emergence of new social media enhancing cultural interactions among people induce the creation of specific social platforms for Cultural Heritage for the active participation of a large number of stakeholders. Co-creation scenarios and tools can be particularly promising. <i>Aton</i> is an example of <i>front-end</i> VR social platform in the web end, for the efficient streaming of medium/large landscape, their exploration and characterization.<br><br> The <i>Tiber Valley Virtual Museum</i> is an example of sensorial cultural landscape. Starting from the acquisition of topographical data through integrated technologies, several multi-sensory scenarios have been created, inside which visitors can feel embodied and involved.

scholarly journals The creation of a virtual Museum of Slavic Cultures as an essential task for modern Slavistics

2020 ◽  
pp. 12-19
Author(s):  
Igor I. Kaliganova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Common Language ◽  
Virtual Museum ◽  
Bulgarian Academy ◽  
The World ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
Part Structure ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Visual Materials ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

The article highlights the need to create a virtual Museum of Slavic Cultures. In our time of rapid digitalization of various spheres of life, this need seems to be obvious. The Museum’s materials concerning cultures of Eastern and Southern Slavs from ancient times to the present day are to be posted on the websites of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and Ghent University not only in Russian, but also in English as it is the most common language in the world, with about 1,5 bln speakers. This will allow for a breakthrough in the dissemination of knowledge about Slavic cultures in non-Slavic environments. The Museum’s collections will not duplicate the materials available in numerous specialized encyclopedias, handbooks and on Wikipedia. Articles for the Museum will be written by the finest specialists working today, who will be able to build an accurate cultural landscape of the Slavic world, without overloading the visitors with secondary and unnecessary facts. The author proposes as optimal a three-part structure for the Museum’s articles, which, accompanied by visual materials, will be able to satisfy a wide variety of interests and tastes of visitors to the future Museum.

BEYOND BUTRINT: THE ‘MURSI SURVEY’, 2008

2016 ◽  
Vol 111 ◽  
pp. 269-297
Author(s):  
Richard Hodges ◽  
Erika Carr ◽  
Alessandro Sebastiani ◽  
Emanuele Vaccaro
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Short Report ◽  
Mediterranean Landscapes ◽  
Ancient City ◽  
History Of ◽  
Byzantine Period ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Town

This article provides a short report on a survey of the region to the east of the ancient city of Butrint, in south-west Albania. Centred on the modern villages of Mursi and Xarra, the field survey provides information on over 80 sites (including standing monuments). Previous surveys close to Butrint have brought to light the impact of Roman Imperial colonisation on its hinterland. This new survey confirms that the density of Imperial Roman sites extends well to the east of Butrint. As in the previous surveys, pre-Roman and post-Roman sites are remarkably scarce. As a result, taking the results of the Butrint Foundation's archaeological excavations in Butrint to show the urban history of the place from the Bronze Age to the Ottoman period, the authors challenge the central theme of urban continuity and impact upon Mediterranean landscapes posited by Horden and Purcell, inThe Corrupting Sea(2000). Instead, the hinterland of Butrint, on the evidence of this and previous field surveys, appears to have had intense engagement with the town in the Early Roman period following the creation of the Roman colony. Significant engagement with Butrint continued in Late Antiquity, but subsequently in the Byzantine period, as before the creation of the colony, the relationship between the town and its hinterland was limited and has left a modest impact upon the archaeological record.

The Snow-Capped Mountain and the Uranium Mine

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 234-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chip Colwell ◽  
T. J. Ferguson
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Heritage Management ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Uranium Mine ◽  
Sacred Landscape ◽  
Federal Mandate ◽  
Traditional Cultural Properties ◽  
Living Being ◽  
Descendant Communities

AbstractKnown in English as Mount Taylor, Dewankwin Kyaba:chu Yalanne (“in the east snow-capped mountain”) in northwestern New Mexico is a sacred landscape to the Zuni people. From an archaeological perspective, the mountain is dotted with hundreds of discrete archaeological sites that record 12,000 years of history. From a Zuni perspective, Mount Taylor is a rich cultural landscape—a tangible record of ancestral migrations, a living being, a pilgrimage site, a referent in religious prayers, a spiritual source of rain, and a collecting place for spring water, animals, minerals, and plants. For Zunis, all of these facets of the mountain combine to create a “total landscape” that is both a source and an instrument of Zuni culture. This article presents a case study of a compliance project to document the potential impacts of a proposed uranium mine at the base of Mount Taylor on Zuni traditional cultural properties. The project demonstrates how archaeologists can benefit from a landscape perspective that builds from the traditional knowledge of descendant communities. The Zuni standpoint further helps shape a CRM practice that is anthropologically informed and consistent with a developing federal mandate to use landscape-scale analysis in heritage management and mitigation practices.

scholarly journals In Search of Atlantis: Underwater Tourism between Myth and Reality

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 95
Author(s):  
Marxiano Melotti
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Tourist Attraction ◽  
The Bahamas ◽  
The Core ◽  
Archaeological Reconstruction ◽  
Under Construction

In post-modernity, the millenarian search for mythical sites has become a tourist attraction and the process of culturalization of consumption has created and is creating a new global heritage. Places already celebrated for leisure have been reinvented as mythical and archaeological sites. A good example is the Atlantis Hotel on Paradise Island, in the Bahamas. Here, Plato’s mythical Atlantis has inspired an underwater pseudo-archaeological reconstruction of a civilization that most likely had never existed. The myth-making force of the sea transforms the false ruins and affects how they are perceived. This is quite consistent with a tourism where authenticity has lost its traditional value and sensory gratifications have replaced it. A more recent Atlantis Hotel in Dubai and another one under construction in China show the vitality of this myth and the strength of the thematization of consumption. Other examples confirm this tendency in even more grotesque ways. At the core of this process there is the body: the tourist’s and the consumer’s body. The post-modernity has enhanced its use as tool and icon of consumption.

scholarly journals Hittite Geographers: Geographical Perceptions and Practices in Hittite Anatolia

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 39-60
Author(s):  
N. İlgi Gerçek
Keyword(s):  
Historical Geography ◽  
Central Place ◽  
Geographical Information ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Classical Period ◽  
Geographical Knowledge ◽  
Geographical Data ◽  
Essential Component ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Written Sources

AbstractHittite archives are remarkably rich in geographical data. A diverse array of documents has yielded, aside from thousands of geographical names (of towns, territories, mountains, and rivers), detailed descriptions of the Hittite state’s frontiers and depictions of landscape and topography. Historical geography has, as a result, occupied a central place in Hittitological research since the beginnings of the field. The primary aim of scholarship in this area has been to locate (precisely) or localize (approximately) regions, towns, and other geographical features, matching Hittite geographical names with archaeological sites, unexcavated mounds, and—whenever possible—with geographical names from the classical period. At the same time, comparatively little work has been done on geographical thinking in Hittite Anatolia: how and for what purpose(s) was geographical information collected, organized, and presented? How did those who produce the texts imagine their world and their homeland, “the Land of Hatti?” How did they characterize other lands and peoples they came into contact with? Concentrating on these questions, the present paper aims to extract from Hittite written sources their writers’ geographical conceptions and practices. It is argued that the acquisition and management of geographical information was an essential component of the Hittite Empire’s administrative infrastructure and that geographical knowledge was central to the creation of a Hittite homeland.

scholarly journals UAV SURVEY FOR THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL MAP OF <i>LILYBAEUM</i> (MARSALA, ITALY)

2019 ◽  
Vol XLII-2/W11 ◽  
pp. 495-502 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Ebolese ◽  
M. Lo Brutto ◽  
G. Dardanelli
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
Spatial Data ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
3D Models ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Archaeological Excavation ◽  
Cost Effective Approach ◽  
Ancient City ◽  
Field Campaigns ◽  
Archaeological Areas

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> Collecting information and mapping are fundamental aspects of systematic archaeological excavation, documentation and interpretation. The process of recording physical evidence is the first step in the archaeological study with the goal to derive spatial and semantic information from the gathered and available data. Archaeological reports always include 2D maps, sections, data distribution and other spatial data. Indeed, the representation is inseparable from the archaeological practice, but this is undoubtedly a time-consuming activity. Nowadays, archaeologists can take advantages of various recording techniques to produce highly accurate 3D models and ortho-images of archaeological sites. Far from replacing the more traditional techniques, the development of new geomatics techniques tries to answer, in a more efficient way, to the needs of archaeological research. The use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) has become more popular in archaeological excavations. In particular, UAV systems become a useful, versatile and cost-effective approach to record large archaeological areas in order to measure and completely document them. They are the fastest way to produce high-resolution 3D models of entire sites and allow archaeologists to collect accurate spatial data that can be used for spatial analyses using GIS platform. The paper presents the results of several UAV surveys of the archaeological remains of <i>Lilybaeum</i>, the ancient city of Marsala (Southern Italy), performed in the Archaeological Park of “Lilibeo”. The UAV acquisitions were planned and carried out to complete the previous traditional documentation of the site. Very detailed 3D models and high-resolution ortho-images, together with some new field campaigns, have been used for new analysis and documentation of the site and for the realization of the archaeological map of <i>Lilybaeum</i>.</p>

scholarly journals TRIBAL AND FOLK ART CULTURE OF CHHATTISGARH ORIENTED TOWARDS PROFESSIONALISM

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (11) ◽  
pp. 291-296
Author(s):  
Neelima Gupta
Keyword(s):  
Folk Art ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Human Love ◽  
Art And Culture ◽  
The Creation

English: From the beginning of the creation, the art passing through different stages of civilization is continuously moving forward till the present. Chhattisgarh is a tribal dominated state. Tribal life means such a juice which is sensuous from above but sensible from within, rapturous, dejected like a deer, bright and sinless. The residents of this place have been leading a struggling life since time immemorial. Many cultures were born, flourished and flourished in this region. The heritage of the art and culture of this region is preserved in the archaeological sites here. The word 'Maharanya' is used here in the Ramayana. The remains of 'primitive art' derived from Singhanpur, Kabra, Bani, Basnajhar, Ogna, Karmagarh, Benipat and Nawagarh hills establish the art of human love of Chhattisgarh. Hindi: सृष्टि के प्रारम्भ से सभ्यता के विभिन्न सोपानों से गुजरती हुई कला वर्तमान तक निरन्तर आगे बढ़ती जा रही है। छत्तीसगढ़ एक आदिवासी बहुल राज्य है। आदिवासी जीवन अर्थात ऐसा रस जो ऊपर से निर्विकार किन्तु भीतर से संवेदी, उतावली, निर्झर के समान छलछलाता, उज्जवल एवं निष्पाप। यहाँ के निवासी आदिकाल से ही संघर्षमय जीवन व्यतीत कर रहे हैं। इस क्षेत्र में अनेक संस्कृतियाँ जन्मीं, पुष्पित-पल्लवित हुयीं। यहाँ के पुरातात्विक स्थलों में इस क्षेत्र की कला एवं संस्कृति की धरोहर सुरक्षित हैं। रामायण में यहाँ के लिये 'महारण्य' शब्द का प्रयोग किया गया है। सिंघनपुर, कबरा, बानी, बसनाझर, ओगना, कर्मागढ़, बेनीपाट तथा नवागढ़ पहाड़ी से प्राप्त 'आदिम कला' के अवशेष छत्तीसगढ़ के मानव का कला प्रेम स्थापित करते हैं।

scholarly journals Moneta in rure: usos y formas de la moneda romana en el ager de Olisipo (Lisboa, Portugal) = Moneta in rure: Uses and Forms of the Roman coin in the Ager of Olisipo (Lisbon, Portugal) = Moneta in rure: Uses and forms of the Roman coin in the ager of Olisipo (Lisbon, Portugal)

2019 ◽  
pp. 117
Author(s):  
Noé Conejo Delgado
Keyword(s):  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Rural Space ◽  
Ancient City

El registro monetario de varios yacimientos rurales (7) situados en el territorium de la antigua ciudad de Olisipo (Lisboa, Portugal), nos ha permitido conocer los usos y formas de la moneda romana en un espacio rural influenciado por vías de comunicación y por el puerto más importante de la provincia Lusitania. Hemos realizado un estudio de circulación monetaria donde hemos incluido también otros datos de interés como el consumo de cerámicas de importación y/o la demanda de serviciosAbstractThe monetary registry of several rural archaeological sites (7) located in the territorium of the ancient city of Olisipo (Lisbon, Portugal), This has helped us to know the uses and forms of the Roman currency in a rural space influenced by communication routes and the most important port in the Lusitania province. We have carried out a currency circulation study where we have also included other interesting data such as the consumption of import ceramics and / or the demand for architectural and decorative services.

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