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The secrets of Musawwarat

I was part of the team from Humboldt University, Berlin. They have been working here since the sixties. Previous works have mainly been focussing on archaeology and buildings, we took a closer look on graffiti on the walls. The team lead by Dr Cornelia Kleinitz, has been doing recording work here for several years. My job was to capture graffiti using RTI and photogrammetry. Also some of the walls were photographed with very high detail to produce high resolution composite images. Continue reading →

AHRC RTISAD project legacy – six months on

It has now been six months since the end of the project. We have continued to publish on the project and are collecting more and more RTI data each day. During the project we only had a limited opportunity to develop the teaching aspect so we have concentrated since then on integrating RTI more and more into the curriculum at Southampton, and also thinking about life-long learning possibilities. Continue reading →

CityEngine Workshop

Presentations from Erica Calogero and Roger Evans on grammar-based modelling and representing architectural styles were superb. It was great to have interest in learning about procedural modelling from within and outside the ACRG, from digital humanities, archaeology and computer science backgrounds. Continue reading →

PATINA meeting – 2-3 November

We had another great meeting as part of the RCUK DE Programme PATINA project. We spent a lot of time talking about plans for the coming year's HCI interventions. These are going to focus on archaeological field settings so now we need to formalise those settings. We spoke a lot about open archaeology and sharing, and I think a lot of this will also play to the strengths of the new DataPool JISC project here at Southampton. Continue reading →

New finds at Portus

http://www.flickr.com/photos/portusproject/6146823824/ Archaeologists from the University of Southampton and the British School at Rome working at Portus under the direction of Professor Simon Keay, working in conjunction with others from the Cooperativa Parsifal (Rome), have discovered a massive building at the maritime port of Imperial Rome, near Rome’s international airport which they believe may have played a role in shipbuilding centred at the port. Continue reading →