An Analysis of 3D Mapping Methods of Historic Burials at Bethel Cemetery

Summary

This is an abstract from the "The Bethel Cemetery Relocation Project: Historical, Osteological, and Material Culture Analyses of a Nineteenth-Century Indiana Cemetery" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

During the summer of 2018, cultural resource management professionals in collaboration with local universities excavated a nineteenth-century cemetery as part of planned infrastructure expansion by the Indianapolis International Airport. Project managers employed structure-from-motion (SfM) photogrammetry to document burial excavations in lieu of traditional methods of mapping. SfM was not only an expedient and efficient method but also provided project researchers the data necessary for bioarchaeological study. The photogrammetry team had recorded and digitally reconstructed 3D models of over 300 burials. This poster summarizes the procedures for 3D mapping of burial excavations at Bethel Cemetery and presents some of the benefits of using photogrammetric techniques.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)   •
• The Bethel Cemetery Relocation Project: Historical, Osteological, and Material Culture Analyses of a Nineteenth-Century Indiana Cemetery

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Abstract Id(s): 36575.0