The goal of the reported project is to test and evaluate 3D surveying and modelling methods to document the remaining ancient byzantine city walls of the archaeological site of Aquileia in Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy. The objectives are threefold: (1) to use 3D data to create maps, façades and sections that provide information useful for archaeological purposes such as the investigation of arc...

Significant multidisciplinary efforts combining archaeology and computer science have yielded virtual reconstructions of archaeological sites for visualization. Yet comparatively little attention has been paid to the difficult problem of populating these models, not only to enhance the quality of the visualization, but also to arrive at quantitative computer simulations of the human inhabitants...

ARCHEOGUIDE (Augmented Reality-based Cultural Heritage On-site GUIDE) is an IST project, funded by the EU, aiming at providing a personalized Virtual Reality guide and tour assistant to archaeological site visitors and a multimedia repository and information system for archaeologists and site curators. The system provides monument reconstructions, ancient life simulation, and database tools for...

The concept of the barbarian has been an enduring presence in the antiquarian and archaeological study of European societies. Indeed the idea of the barbarian as an adjective and concept continues to influence both scholarly and popular perceptions of Prehistory, the Ancient World and Early Medieval societies. Moving beyond studies of the shifting attitudes to the barbarian within successive an...

This work is part of a thesis for the School of Specialization in Archaeology at the University of Trieste, Italy. The goal of the project is to test and evaluate 3D surveying and modeling methods to document the remaining ancient byzantine city walls of the archaeological site of Aquileia in Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy. The objectives are threefold: (1) to use 3D data to create maps and secti...

■ Abstract This review addresses methods and theories for the archaeological study of ancient state economies, from the earliest states through the Classical period and beyond. Research on this topic within anthropological archaeology has been held back by reliance on simple concepts and an impoverished notion of the extent of variation in ancient state economies. First I review a long-standing...

In this paper, the Tasseled Cap Transformation (TCT) was applied to QuickBird multispectral images for extracting archaeological features linked to ancient human transformations of the landscape. The investigation was performed on Metaponto, one of the most important archaeological sites in the South of Italy. The analysis was focused on the identification of ancient land divisions likely relat...

Michael E. Smith is Professor of Anthropology at the School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA; email: [email protected]. His research interests include Aztec society, the archaeological study of early states and cities, and comparative urbanism. ‘The Urban Revolution’ by V. Gordon Childe (Town Planning Review, 1950) is one of the most heavily ci...