The Council for British Archaeology have recently announced that British Archaeology magazine is now available as a digital edition. It will be available through a web browser, as well as via apps on iOS and Android devices. If you haven’t come across British Archaeology, then I urge you to have a look at the free [...]
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Day of Archaeology 2011
Friday 29th July 2011 was the Day of Archaeology, an international online event organised by a group of like-minded archaeologists, as part of the Council for British Archaeology’s Festival of British Archaeology. The idea behind the event was to showcase the sheer variety of work that archaeologists do in their jobs, to help highlight how [...]
New article – Interactive Landscape Relighting
I have just published a short article, co-written with Paul Cripps, entitled Interactive Landscape Relighting in the Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society’s Archaeology Special Interest Group Spring 2011 Newsletter. It is a summary of the work I have been doing on scaling virtual Polynomial Texture Mapping techniques up to allow us to examine whole landscapes [...]
Archaeology Blogs
I have just published a list of archaeology blogs that I subscribe to via RSS. I have also created a bundle in Google Reader for those, like me, can’t live without an RSS reader. It seems that blogging has been quietly gathering momentum in archaeology since I first started noticing blogs in 2004, and blogging [...]
New, complete 3D laser scan of Stonehenge commissioned
English Heritage have recently commissioned a new, complete 3D laser scan of Stonehenge. This will involve scanning the land in the ‘Stonehenge triangle’, the ground immediately surrounding the stones at a higher resolution, and of course the stones themselves, at a resolution of 0.5mm. You can find out more about the equipment and aims at [...]
British Academy cut grant funding to the Council for British Archaeology
On Wednesday 2nd April 2011, the Council for British Archaeology announced that the British Academy will be phasing out their grant funding to the CBA over the next five years. This will amount to a cut of £306,000, a 25% reduction in the CBA’s entire income. In a statement, CBA President Dr Kate Pretty CBE [...]
Archaeology and the iPad
There has been much talk over the past few weeks over an article on apple.com called “Discovering Ancient Pompeii with iPad“. In essence a team from the University of Cincinnati are using iPads to replace paper for much of their fieldwork at Pompeii. From email lists, to archaeology and popular tech blogs, the news has [...]
Virtual lights, 3D terrains and a bit of Stonehenge
I have just published a blog post on the Wessex Archaeology website entitled Interactive Landscape Relighting. It is about using Polynomial Texture Mapping (PTM) in a virtual environment, using LiDAR (airborne laser scanning) to create models of landscapes which can be illuminated by the viewer from any angle. The post uses part of the [...]
Imaging the Antikythera Mechanism
The Antikythera Mechanism is thought to be a 2nd/1st century BC mechanical device for calculating astronomical positions (and thus a very advanced navigational device of its time). It was made somewhere in the Greek-speaking world. Tom Malzbender, one of the inventors of Polynomial Texture Mapping (PTM), recently gave a Google Tech Talk entitled “Imaging the [...]
New Portable Antiquities Scheme website and database
After a year in development, the new Portable Antiquities Scheme website and database is now live. The Scheme’s database holds over 500,000 records and about 250,000 photos. These records are contributed by staff, volunteers and the general public. The Portable Antiquities Scheme is a voluntary scheme to record archaeological objects found by members of the [...]
