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The world is in your eyes - Proceedings of the XXXIII Computer Applications in Archaeology Conference: Tomar March 2005

Edited by A. Figueiredo & G. Leite Velho

Published by CAAPortugal, Tomar

Table of Contents

Preface

1 – What you see is what you get? Three-dimensional reconstructions

Measuring deformations of wheel-produced ceramics using high resolution 3D reconstructions
Avshalom Karasik, Hubert Mara, Robert Sablatnig, Ilan Sharon, Uzy Smilansky

Perceiving pottery: a view using 3d applications
D. J. Irujo-Ruíz, M. P. Prieto-Martínez

A mythological tale lived again through the virtual reality
Fabio Bruno, Giuseppe Crugliano, Daniela Fiorelli, Guglielmo Genovese, Maurizio Muzzupappa

Virtual Heritage Reconstruction: The Old Main Church of Curitiba, Brazil
Jose Manoel Kozan, Iara Beduschi Kozan

Remote Research through the Modeling and Reconstruction of a Medieval Monastery Site in Languedoc
Elizabeth Riorden, Bradley French, Emily Hatch

Vilars AR Project. Testing the Augmented Reality Paradigm in an archaeological site
Ares Vidal, Enric Tartera, Natàlia Alonso, Carles Aguiló, Emili Junyent, Jesús Lorés

Recreating a prehistoric village: from the Epipaleolithic to the Iron Age
D. Gutierrez, E. Sobreviela, F. Gomez, F. Seron

An interactive 3D reconstruction of a funeral in Andriuolo’s Necropolis in Paestum
Roberto ANDREOLI, Rosario De Chiara, Ugo Erra, Vittorio Scarano, Angela Pontrandolfo, Maria Luigia Rizzo, Alfonso Santoriello

The Flavian Amphitheater (Colosseum) in Rome: An Excellent People-Mover?
Diego Gutierrez, Bernard Frischer, Francisco Seron

On-A-Slant Virtual Village: Constructing a 3D Stereo Imaging Exhibit
Aaron Bergstrom, Jeffrey T. Clark, Douglas G. Snider, Richard Frovarp, Dan Reetz, Brian Slator, James Landrum, Ryan White

Virtual Reality on Web – Why not?
Alexandrino Gonçalves, António José Mendes

Exploring and Interacting with Virtual Museums
P. Petridis, M. White, N. Mourkousis, F. Liarokapis, M. Sifniotis, A. Basu, C. Gatzidis

2 – Putting Things Together: Data Classification

Associative Multilingual Classification Architecture for historical artefact
Damiano Bolla

SECANTO – The SECtion ANalysis TOol
Vincent Mom

An Automated Pottery Fragment Classifier for Archaeological Studies
Gulsebnem Bishop, Sung-Hyuk Cha, Charles Tappert

OAIsistema, a simple solution for implementing OAI-PMH on small size archives of archaeological documents
Claudio Barchesi

Digitization of Cultural Heritage: model an integral, three-dimensional spatio temporal thesaurus
Rimvydas Lauˇzikas

SIDORA Project: Requirements for an open source Archaeological Information System
Enric Tartera Bieto, Ares Vidal Aixalà

The Engraved Stone Plaque Registry and Inquiry Tool (ESPRIT) and the Windfalls and Pitfalls of Publishing Online Archaeological Databases
Dennis Crall, Katina Lillios

And XML-based open source solution for online/offline archaeological data storage and processing
Petko Staynov, Nikolay Genov

Transforming relational databases into XML documents. Case study
Manuella Kadar, Ioan Ileanˇa

E-Mem: An Interactive Graveyard Information Management Tool & Virtual Memoriam Database
H. Johannsson, M. Felicori, C. Borgatti, S. Caraceni, L.Garutti, A. Vysniauskiene, I. Baliulyte, S. Zabiela, A. Sarris, E. Peraki

3 – Catching things: Fieldwork techniques

Archaeoscope – interface for 3D stratigraphy visualisation
Bogdan Bobowski

Linking 2D Harris Matrix with 3D Stratigraphic Visualisations: An Integrated Approach to Archaeological Documentation
Wendy Day, John Cosmas, Nick Ryan, Tijl Vereenooghe, Luc Van Gool, Marc Waelkens, Peter Talloen

Artifact Orientations from Total Station Proveniences
Shannon JP. McPherron, Harold L. Dibble

Automated simple context sheets processing
Bogdan Bobowski

Underwater Surveys and Remote Sensing – The 2005 Corinthian Gulf Expedition
Alexis Catsambis

4 – Catching moments: Photogrametry

Photogrammetric recording of the archaeological site of Pinchango Alto (Palpa, Peru) using a mini helicopter (UAV)
Henri Eisenbeiss, Karsten Lambers, Martin Sauerbier

3D Modeling of large cultural heritage sites from satellite and aerial images
M. Sauerbier, A. Gruen

For a Digital Repository of Rock Art in Portugal
J. Cabrita Freitas, M. Adler Abreu, Pedro Santos, António Martinho Baptista, João Zilhão

5 – Beneath: Geophysics Applications

Palaepaphos, Cyprus: The contribution of Geographical Information Systems and Geophysical Prospection in the study of the archaeological topography and settlement patterns
A. Sarris, G. Stamatis, N. Papadopoulos, E. Kokkinou, S. Topouzi, E. Kokkinaki, E. Moissi, M. Iacovou, V. Kassianidou, G. Papassavas, G. Papantoniou, M. Dikomitou, E. Stylianidis

Arch-Geophysical prospecting at Magura Uroiului (Romania)
Angelica Balos, Adriana Ardeu, Roxana Stancescu, Calin Suteu

A Multi-disciplinary Approach to Industrial Sites of the Vrokastro Region of Mirabello, Eastern Crete
A. Sarris, K. Kouriati, E. Kokkinou, E. Aedona, L. Karagianni, G. Vargemezis, G. Stamatis, M. Elvanidou, E. Katifori, M. Kaskanioti, S. Soetens, Th. Kalpaxis, Y. Bassiakos, C. Athanassas, B. Hayden, T. Brennan

6 – Artificial Intelligence

A Science Fiction Tale? A robot called Archaeologist
Juan A. Barceló

The spread of Neolithic herders – a computer aided modelling approach
Philipp Drechsler, Dirk Tiede

Agent-Based Holistic Simulations of Bronze Age Mesopotamian Settlement Systems
John Christiansen, Mark Altawee

7 – LIght Detection And Ranging (LIDAR)

Using pattern recognition to search LIDAR data for archeological sites
Arjan de Boer

LIDAR – High Resolution Raster Data as a survey tool
Sascha Schmidt, Jörg Bofinger, Ralf Keller and Siegfried Kurz

8 – Public Eyes: Museum and Public Archaeology

Developing an electronic thesaurus of terms for Byzantine Icons in the framework of a project, focused in the creation of a virtual Museum
Dionysios Mourelatos, Andreas Andreou, Theodora Patsalou, Drakoulis Martakos

TNT: The Neanderthal Tools and NESPOS
G.-C. Weniger, J. Döllner, R. Macchiarelli, M. Mandel, P. Mayer, J. Radovcic, P. Semal

Choice and inspiration: content for audio and multimedia guiding systems
Katerina Nikolaidou, Archontia Polyzoudi

9 – Archaeology on-line

A comparative analysis of ontological techniques in supporting online communities
John McAuley, Eoin Kilfeather

Bases for the creation of ontology in the context of Archaeology
Juan María Fernández González, Antonio Polo Márquez, Enrique Cerrillo Cuenca

10 – Dwelling and perception

The architecture evolution in pre-history: The MOMENT PAST project
Alexandra Figueiredo, L. Oosterbeek, S. Cura, G. Guizi, C. Peretto, M. Azarello, U. Thun Hohenstein, A. Minelli, S. Westengaard, G. Burenhult

Integrating spatial analysis and 3D approaches to the study of visual space: Late Bronze Age Akrotiri
Eleftheria Paliou, David Wheatley

Total and Cumulative Viewshed: An application in the Genil River Valley
Mar Zamora

GIS Analysis of Roman Transport Routes, Seville Province, Spain
Leif Isaksen

Pathways, Perception and the development of Place: Computational approaches to movement and perception of landscape in prehistory
Paul Cripps

11 – Predictive Modelling

The Cost Surface Analysis as a Predictive Model for the Reconstruction of the Ancient Road Network in the Territory of the Protohistorical Tarquinia
Giuliano Pelfer

Towards the Bronze Age Settlement Models of a Northern Apennines Valley (Val di Vara, La Spezia, Italy)
M. Tremari

Geographic Information Systems in Archaeological Analysis – GisArchaeo
Helena Rua

12 – In-site: Inter-site Analysis

Walking in a Way: Some conclusions of the recent Pré-history in Alto Ribatejo region
Alexandra Figueiredo

The lithic industry of the Early Neolithic at Uzzo Cave (Trapani, Sicily). A landscape perspective on the operational chains and the raw material availability
Carmine Collina, Rosalia Gallotti

The GIS Application to the Spatial Data Organization of the Necropolis of Poseidonia-Paestum (Salerno, Italy)
A. Santoriello, F. U. Scelza, R. Gallotti, R. Bove, L. Sirangelo, A. Pontrandolfo

Low Density Lithic Artefact Scatters: Consideration of the Impact of Sampling Strategy
John Pouncett

13 – Modelling our World: GIS Representation

Speeding up visualisation of medieval urban landscapes: John Speed, GIS and 3D
Steven Trick, Keith Lilley, Chris Lloyd

Hierarchical multi-view representation of spatial data; application to the analysis of Corsican Neolithic tombs
El-Hadi Khoumeri, Jean-François Santucci, Dominique Federici

Praise the sea, on land remain? GIS analysis of travel routes in an Iron Age island environment
Robert Brian Rahn

Network Analysis and Landscape Stratigraphy
John Pouncett

Between Creator and Reader: Towards Communicative Maps
Hugh Corley

Time to look for a Temporal GIS
Dora Constantinidis

To see or not To see. Archaeological data and surface visibility as seen by an AIS (Archaeological Information System) approach
F. Cavulli; S. Grimaldi

14 – GIS Patter Analysis

FormaTarraconis? GIS use for urban archaeology
José Ignacio Fiz Fernández, Josep Maria Macias Solé

Applications of GISs to the study of Daunian settlement patterns in the pre-Roman Age
Barbara Pecere

Towards prehistoric landscape interpretation: GIS analysis of stratigraphical and remote sensing data in Sesto Fiorentino plain
Giovanna Pizziolo

The Settlement Pattern of Ancient Icaria through a GIS Approach. Part II: Data Visualization
Sophia Topouzi

Recapturing the Spatial Dynamics of the Venetian Occupation Period of Merabello in Eastern Crete through a GIS Approach
Marianna Katifori