3D Scanning the Virgin Mary in the Toast: Using Handheld Digital Imaging Technologies to Explode the Myth of Pareidolic Illusions in the Ancient Maya Underworld
Author(s): Cameron S. Griffith
Year: 2018
Summary
Cave archaeologists around the world are increasingly utilizing many new platforms and techniques to document subterranean artwork, including digital imaging and scanning technologies. In this presentation I demonstrate a portable and cost-effective approach to digital imaging of parietal art. To this end, I used an Occipital Structure Sensor 3D scanner, mounted on an iPhone 6, to document various monumental modified speleothem sculptures in the subterranean realm of the ancient Maya of Belize, Central America. In addition to comparing and contrasting the methodologies, results, costs, time, and logistics involved with this system to other popular scanning systems, I provide ideas suggestions for those who may be interested in carrying out similar initiatives in the future.
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3D Scanning the Virgin Mary in the Toast: Using Handheld Digital Imaging Technologies to Explode the Myth of Pareidolic Illusions in the Ancient Maya Underworld. Cameron S. Griffith. Presented at The 82nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Washington, DC. 2018 ( tDAR id: 444898)
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Keywords
Geographic Keywords
Mesoamerica: Eastern
Spatial Coverage
min long: -95.032; min lat: 15.961 ; max long: -86.506; max lat: 21.861 ;
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 20795