Digital Archaeology in Pandemic Times: Pedestrian Survey in The Elder Scrolls Online

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Making Waves through Play: A Historical Archaeological Examination of Archaeogaming and the Global Impact of Video Games on the Field of Archaeology", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

Accessibility in archaeology and archaeological training have been growing concerns for some time, and this issue was wildly exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic. Digital archaeology offers the potential for real, skill-based archaeological training in a format that is accessible to those who cannot physically access field sites due to any variety of reasons. In the summer of 2020, the authors developed a pedestrian survey strategy within the game world of The Elder Scrolls Online. This paper describes the development of this model and its implementation as well as the utility of The Elder Scrolls Online as a potential training tool using virtual archaeological methods.

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• Making Waves through Play: A Historical Archaeological Examination of Archaeogaming and the Global Impact of Video Games on the Field of Archaeology   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2023

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