Digital on-site presentation of the invisible past

Summary

The aim of the paper is to demonstrate the possibility of broad spectrum of digital methods for presentation of archaeological sites. This approach is extremely valuable in locations where there is neither any preserved construction, nor any relic of the original appearance of the past structures and landscape. Such sites usually meet with indifference both from the public and from institutions involved in preservation of historical monuments. The possibility of creating virtual and augmented reality proved to be a potential tool to grasp the invisible and to describe the disappeared. On the examples of several Central European sites spanning from the Early Neolithic to Medieval times we show a potentially powerful tool for digital heritage management. Several technological platforms can be interconnected to provide a classical static approach of exhibiting artefacts (in the form of open library of 3D scans), which however may be expanded with dynamic level including augmented and virtual reality, videos and other interacting features. The acquired digital records can also serve as open access sources for research and educational purposes at all academic levels.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 82nd Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC (2017)

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Abstract Id(s): 15747