Saving Our Past with Technology of the Future

Summary

Saving our past with the technology of the future.

The Yucatan Peninsula has become one of the most important areas of the world for underwater archaeology research. New discoveries go from extinct mega fauna and ancient human remains from the ice age, to bones of the ancient Maya and artifacts, all in a great state of preservation. Our team has developed a new non-intrusive survey methodology, which uses photography to document artifacts and bones. Photographs are then processed by custom made software, which allow us to create 3D models with amazing hyper realistic results. We use these models to create a database that can preserve the artifacts through photography and even produce exact replicas of every single materials registered. We believe that this technique might set a new way to survey caves and cenotes with relatively low coast and amazing results.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 81st Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL (2016)   •
• New Developments in Mesoamerican Subterranean Archaeology

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