Chichen Itza 3D Atlas

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Chichen Itza is an extensive site containing a vast and distinctive corpus of monumental architecture, carved stone iconography, and painted murals. Since its initial excavation in 1913, artifacts have been collected and distributed widely between collections. In 2014, 2017, and 2022 the National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM) conducted aerial LiDAR surveys of the site and surrounding area (Stanton 2019). These LiDAR surveys provide a spatial reference to align all datasets. Advances in 3D digitization and visualization technologies (Schütz 2016) allow us to capture, contextualize, and analyze artifacts within site-wide LiDAR and aerial photogrammetry, and feature specific terrestrial/mobile LiDAR. In this project the authors extend a large scale interactive digital archive and web visualization framework which aligns and nests full resolution 3D data within geospatial context (Campiani et al. 2023), enabling a fusion and contextualization of over 560 high resolution models including regional, site, feature, and artifact scale data across multiple years.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Record Identifiers

Abstract Id(s): 37871.0