Beginning in June 2018, some forty‑five students from Zurich and Lima led by Guillaume Othenin-Girard (ETH Zurich) Vincent Juillerat (PUCP) worked together to produce a structure the heart of archaeological landscape Pachacamac, Peru. The project was culmination half‑year collaboration between Studio Tom Emerson D-ARCH, ETH Taller 5 Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo, PUCP Lima, at invitation...

Writing is the means by which archaeological knowledge produced, shared and negotiated, why, as part of a wider reflexive archaeology, writing within discipline has come under scrutiny. When writing, archaeologists make choices about what words to use express their ideas past (even if these are sometimes subconscious). This study examines such via application methods from two linguistic subdisc...

Thousands of fragments of ceramics (called sherds for short) are found at archaeolgical excavation sites. Till today archaeologists have drawn and classified them manually. This method is very timeconsuming and classification depends on the expierences of the archaeologists. So we developed a system for classification based on 3D-models of the sherds acquired by a 3D-scanner using stuctured lig...

The potentiality of ontology within the faculty of archaeology has recently been felt. However, the use of ontology is limited either within the data interoperability for data sharing within various heterogeneous platforms or data integration of heterogeneous dataset. Thus the full potentiality of ontology is still to be realized within the community of archaeology. We are developing a system “...

Age is one of the essential factors in establishing the identity of the person. Estimation of the human age is a procedure adopted by anthropologists, archaeologists and forensic scientists. Compared with other cognition problems, age estimation from face images is still very challenging. Predicting and estimating the age from facial images with makeup is an interesting task in digital entertai...

I review several bodies of empirical urban theory relevant to the archaeological analysis of ancient cities. Empirical theory is a type of “middlerange theory” (following Robert Merton): sets of concepts and methods that are less abstract, and have greater empirical content, than high-level social theory. The categories of theory reviewed here include environment-behavior theory, architectural ...