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 [...]
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 [...]
Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) workshop in Southampton, Feb 2011
It’s a bit short notice, but two one-day workshops are being held at the University of Southampton between 21st and 22nd February 2011, where participants can learn about the Reflectance Transformation Imaging family of technologies – of which Polynomial Texture Mapping (PTM) is a member. The workshops are an excellent chance to learn about RTI [...]
Google Street View for Art Galleries: The Google Art Project
I’ve just spotted the Google Art Project. It allows you to explore a selection of art galleries from around the world as you would explore an area on a map via Google Street View. An interactive layer provides an indication when an artwork can be viewed in detail on a separate page, with magnification tools [...]
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 [...]
Past Thinking moves server and house
Past Thinking has just moved to a new server. Please excuse us as we re-set the site back up. The reason for the move is because we had been hacked, and search results for posts on this site showed up as pharmaceutical adverts. For those interested, it was the WordPress “Pharma Hack“, and it proved [...]