[Archport] CALL FOR PAPERS - TAG Manchester 2014

[Joana Valdez <joanavaldez@gmail.com>]

Aos interessados,

 

Aceitam-se propostas para comunicacoes (c. 250 palavras) ate ao dia 31 de Outubro.

 

Grata pela atencao dispensada.

 

Com os melhores cumprimentos,

 

Joana

 

 

 

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Session Title: ‘A 3D Digital Image Can Tell a Thousand Words.’ The Application of Digital Imaging Technologies beyond Documentation

 

Organisers:

Joana Valdez-Tullett (University of Southampton) and Marta Diaz-Guardamino (University of Southampton) and Guillaume Robin (University of Edinburgh)

 

Email:

J.Valdez-Tullett@soton.ac.uk; M.M.Diaz-Guardamino-Uribe@soton.ac.uk; guillaume.robin@ed.ac.uk

 

During the last decades, research on archaeological material (including rock art) has benefited from the application of a broad range of digital imaging technologies. Prominent amongst these are 2D image enhancement programmes (e.g. Photoshop, D-Stretch) and 3D imaging techniques (e.g. laser scanning, photogrammetry and Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI)). Implementation of these technologies has contributed to the recording of uncountable rock art sites and artefacts around the world, but is still limited due to the need of specialized knowledge or lack a funding and has predominantly had a ‘recording-approach’. Despite the production of accurate recordings and ‘pretty pictures’, relevant research questions that can be explored through these imaging techniques remain largely overlooked.Thus, the contribution of digital techniques to the advancement of research questions relevant to contemporary archaeological enquiry (e.g. process and temporality in the making of rock art; micro-topography of rock art panels) is still underestimated. This session seeks to explore the application of imaging tools for the examination of specific research questions on archaeological material culture such as artefacts/portable objects and/or rock art, rather than for simple documentation. Illustrating with examples of various contexts and chronologies, the contributors will discuss how these innovative technologies can be used to, not only reproduce images, but also contribute to their interpretation, meet research goals and solve complex archaeological problems."