The Efficacy of 3D Photogrammetric Models in the Documentation and Reconstruction of Dismantled Historic Stone Walls in Southern New England

Summary

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

Stone walls serve as indicators of both contemporary and historic property boundaries as well as significant features such as farms, roadways, and internal property routes. The northeastern United States, particularly New England, boasts an estimated 193,121 km (120,000 mi) of stone walls. In Cultural Resource Management (CRM), it is not uncommon for culturally significant stone walls to be documented, dismantled, and restored. While 3D photogrammetry has been increasingly used in CRM, archaeologists continue to rely heavily on the use of hand-drawn maps, illustrations, and 2D photography. During work conducted by POWER Engineers on a transmission corridor in southern New England, several historic stone walls were documented using both traditional archaeological means and 3D photogrammetry. The research presented compares the cost, quality, and time to completion between three different methods of archaeological data collection and presentation, including the extrapolation of figures from traditional field drawings on graph paper, 3D photogrammetric modeling, and drawings rendered from 2D photographs when recording historic stone walls.

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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Abstract Id(s): 39432.0