Are We Living in a Simulation? Digital Reconstructions of Early Sites in Coastal Peru

Author(s): Emily Milton; Kurt Rademaker; Peter Leach

Year: 2018

Summary

Rapidly evolving modern technology has resulted in powerful tools for preserving and visualizing archaeological materials. Extensively recording a site with digital technologies enables new explorations of site discovery and recovery processes while concurrently providing a permanent, detailed record of the material. Here, Terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene maritime sites in coastal Peru are reconstructed at various scales. Drone photography and GIS are utilized to collect high-resolution landscape imagery for basemap modeling, while approaches of photogrammetry and 3-D modeling are applied to investigate aspects of the sites at a micro scale. This work demonstrates the dynamic potential of digital curation in archaeology.

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Are We Living in a Simulation? Digital Reconstructions of Early Sites in Coastal Peru. Emily Milton, Kurt Rademaker, Peter Leach. Presented at The 82nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Washington, DC. 2018 ( tDAR id: 443399)

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Spatial Coverage

min long: -82.441; min lat: -56.17 ; max long: -64.863; max lat: 16.636 ;

Record Identifiers

Abstract Id(s): 22644