Recent Biblical Archaeology

Shifting Sands: The Rise and Fall of Biblical Archaeology

High-precision radiocarbon dating and historical biblical archaeology in southern Jordan.

Recent excavations and high-precision radiocarbon dating from the largest Iron Age (IA, ca. 1200-500 BCE) copper production center in the southern Levant demonstrate major smelting activities in the region of biblical Edom (southern Jordan) during the 10th and 9th centuries BCE. Stratified radiocarbon samples and artifacts were recorded with precise digital surveying tools linked to a geographi...

Optical 3D Measurement Techniques in Archaeology: Recent Developments and Applications

This paper is intended to give an overview on current surveying techniques that use remotely sensed data, and their applications in archaeology. The focus is on optical 3D measurement techniques based on image and range sensors. Data and methods are briefly reviewed, whereas data processing and related problems are only touched in passing. For the purpose of this review we distinguish three sca...

Palaeolithic archaeology and 3D visualisation technology: Recent developments

This paper presents computer-aided lithic analysis conducted in the context of an interdisciplinary research framework combining computer science and archaeology – the Partnership for Research in Stereo Modeling (PRISM), at Arizona State University. Pilot projects conducted as part of PRISM serve to find real-world applications to the tridimensional visualization technology developed as part of...

Biblical Principles for Compensation