Time and the Landscape: Visualizations of Murujuga and Beyond.

Summary

This is an abstract from the "The Art of Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Developing 3D photorealistic visualizations of the landscapes of Murujuga going back nearly 125,000 years has been an objective of research since late 2015. Certain challenges have been met in relation to increasing the accuracy and resolution of bathymetric and topographic data, and in dealing with the complexity of hydrodynamic effects on currently submerged landforms. We still remain far from finding definitive paleo-terrain and climatic datasets. However, we are moving into a framework where we can start to build virtual and immersive models of past landscapes, and to interpret the locations and distribution of rock art, or settlement sites, in appropriate temporal contexts. Several examples of recent and on-going visualizations, both in Murujuga and also in other portions of Northern Australia, are presented here to demonstrate potential interpretive opportunities into land-use, migration, and maritime economies. As we look to the future, we are also concerned about how climate change and sea level rise will affect some of the significant sites in this region.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)   •
• The Art of Archaeology

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Abstract Id(s): 23616