I work for Wessex Archaeology in Salisbury, UK, where I run one of the largest archaeological websites in the country, and specialise in 3D applications within archaeology. This includes visualisation and reconstruction, 3D laser scanning, and surface analysis.
I am also a digital audio and video enthusiast, using both within archaeology to help raise awareness of the many excavations and other archaeological investigations undertaken in the UK and beyond.
Visit my personal blog for my writings on topics other than cultural heritage. You can follow me on Twitter, Google+, and Flickr.
Archaeology
Despite my heavy involvement with technology, I am an archaeologist. My current archaeological interests cover Celtic identity, Iron Age Britain (particularly funerary traditions), Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments, and the application of 3D and Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) technologies within archaeology.
Publications
Goskar, T. A., A. Carty, P. Cripps, C. Brayne & D. Vickers. 2003. The Stonehenge Laser Show. British Archaeology 73, 9-15.
Carty, A., Goskar, T.A. 2005. Surveying Knowlton Church and Henge using 3D Laser Scanning. Archaeoptics (web article).
Goskar, T.A. 2006. Podcasting the Past. Podcast User Magazine 11, 26-28.
Goskar, T. A., McHarg, C. 2006. Walk to work learning about old Dorset, British Archaeology 86. (on Web 2.0 and archaeology)
Goskar, T. A. 2006. Wessex Archaeology and Flickr: How We Use Web 2.0. Culture24 (Formerly 24 Hour Museum: feature article).
Goskar, T. A., Brayne, C. 2008. A long history of arrivals and departures. British Archaeology 98.
Isaksen, L., Goskar, T. A., Cripps, P. 2008. Making People Believe. British Archaeology 100,20-27. (A history and review of archaeological computing)
Goskar, T. A. & Earl, G. P. 2010. Polynomial texture mapping for archaeologists. British Archaeology 111, 28-31.
Goskar, T. A. & Cripps, P. 2011. Interactive Landscape Relighting. Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society, Archaeology Special Interest Group Newsletter (Spring 2011), 4-5.
Goskar, T. A. (2012 forthcoming). Amesbury Archer to Archaeocast: Wessex Archaeology and the Web. Archaeologists and the Digital, Towards Strategies of Engagement. London, Archetype Publications.
Exhibitions
Royal Academy of Arts, London (2007): Audio/visual installation for the Society of Antiquaries at “Making History – Antiquaries in Britain 1707-2007“, a 3D fly-through of the Stonehenge landscape using LiDAR, a panoramic view of Stonehenge from the centre, and a 3D visualisation of close-range laser scan data showing the rock art and graffiti.
Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum, Salisbury (2008): Audio/visual installation for the Society of Antiquaries at “Making History: 300 Years of Antiquaries in Britain“, a 3D fly-through of the Stonehenge landscape using LiDAR, 3D visualisation of the skull and bones of the Amesbury Archer demonsrating metric techniques, and 3D visualisation of WWI & WWII graffiti carved into trees on Salisbury Plain.
Papers Given
Computer Applications in Archaeology UK (CAAUK) conferences in the UK, most recently in 2006. I tend to present my 3D work at these conferences.
Joint paper at the British Academy in April 2004 upon the findings of our “Stonehenge Laser Scan” project, where we discovered long lost carvings on the most studied stone (Stone 53) at Stonehenge.
Lecture at King’s College, Taunton in 2004 on “Lasers and Archaeology”.
Paper with the Council for British Archaeology (CBA) Director, Mike Heyworth, on Web 2.0 and Archaeology at the IFA Conference in Edinburgh, April 2006.
Lecture at the Museums Association “Digital Dialogues” conference in June 2007 on “Podcasting – should museums listen?” at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Lecture to CBA Wessex at Salisbury Museum on 3D Visualisation in Archaeology, Summer 2007.
Lecture at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London: “Using digital technology to visualise the past” (with Stuart Eve, L-P Archaeology/UCL), January 2011.
“Challenges and possibilities for the adoption of Reflectance Transformation Imaging in the UK’s commercial archaeology sector”. Digital Transformations: New developments in cultural heritage imaging at The Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, University of Oxford, 25 February 2011.
I regularly contribute to the MSc course in Archaeological Computing at the University of Southampton.
