SIMuR Simulation: The Interdisciplinary Creation of a Virtual Reality Environment Archaeological Pedagogy, Research and Outreach

Summary

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

In 2019, a three-year NSF IRES grant (#1854153) was awarded to Bridgewater State University, Ilia State University, and the Cyberarchaeology Lab at U.C. San Diego to engage U.S. undergraduate students in interdisciplinary research of historical and ongoing human-environmental interactions in the Shiraki Plateau in the southeastern part of the country of Georgia. Part of this multidisciplinary project was to develop components of an interactive virtual collection of archeological artifacts from cultural sites and hydrological data from the Shiraki Plateau, as well as a virtual reality (VR) environment for education and outreach. This resulted in the creation of two distinct virtual environments - the Virtual Museum of Archaeology of South Caucasus (VMASC), an interactive virtual collection of artifacts from the archeological sites at Shiraki; and a virtual reconstructed environment of a general Late Bronze Age site on the Shiraki Plateau - through the work of U.S. undergraduate students from BSU and graduate students from ISU. This presentation is designed to show the work of these students and scholars, particularly Giorgi Datunashvili of ISU, and to demonstrate future applications of this and other VR environments for archaeology in California, Massachusetts, and in Georgia.

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): 40258.0