Digital Reconstruction of the Structure 12, El Meco, Quintana Roo

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The Proyecto de Investigación y Conservación “El Meco”, seeks to used digital technology to preserve, and create a digital recording of the previous interventions and the new activities that were related to the site. As result of those digital recordings, we elaborate a proposal on the architectural and decorative appearance of the Structure 12 of the archaeological site, by combining 3D point cloud models of the structure, with 2D model of artwork and the topographic map, made by other archaeologists that worked on the archaeological site. The digital reconstruction included: (1) 2D artwork of the building which identifies the architecture of the region (Costa Oriental), (2) use of LiDAR this is just a preview of the use of the technology, (3) the use of highest resolution photogrammetry of building (i.e. columns, walls, colors, textures) which day by day are losing by erosion and other natural and biological factors, and (4) the generation of point clouds from the 3D data of the building. The creation of this 3D model will help scholars and tourists by providing a visual tool to generate more questions and to clarify a little bit more about how the life during the Postclassic Period was.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 90th Annual Meeting, Denver, CO (2025)   •
• SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts

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Abstract Id(s): 53449