The Land, Environment and Geo-Engineering Department of the Politecnico di Torino is involved in a research project (ARCHEOMEDSAT), with the purpose of defining the architecture and components of a suitable information system for the management of excavation data and for the provision of innovative services to the visitors of archaeological sites in the Mediterranean area. GIS solutions for the...

Over two decades of technological and academic advances, numerous platforms and tools have been developed to help archaeologists visualize traditional data in new ways. The resulting products have ranged from realistic 3D models to virtual reality simulators to geographic information systems. In the field of digital archaeological visualization one of the main areas of development is to address...

Museums and Art Galleries are challenged to inspire, engage and involve visitors by presenting their collections within physical exhibitions. Curators and exhibition professionals are increasingly telling stories using digital interactivity. This work introduces Quando, a visual programming based toolset that domain experts can use to create interactive exhibits. A small case study demonstrates...

The oldest known spatially-explicit archaeological excavation, conducted in Brixham cave, Devon, in 1858, is reconstructed using geographic information systems technology. Two dimensional plots of individual fossil taxa and flint artefacts demonstrate the utility of the technique for elucidating taphonomy and palaeobiology.The cave served as a den for hibernating brown bears, as a den for hyena...

Plant remains from archaeological sites can provide information about the ancient environment. However, these remains should be considered archaeological artifacts, "filtered" through human culture. Adequate interpretation is only possible, and is indeed enriched, by taking the cultural practices of human populations into account. This approach is applied to archaeobotanical materials from Maly...

n field archaeology, analysis of an excavated region is a meticulous process requiring exploration at a variety of levels. While the act of excavation offers the best way for archaeologists to monitor close-range details, they can use empirically based analysis to analyze only the findings to which they themselves have been exposed. With a team of people excavating, synthesizing the wealth of o...

Technological advances in the field of 3D data acquisition, modeling and processing enable new possibilities for archaeological documentation, exploration and analysis of individual artifacts, entire excavation sites or reconstructions of past settlements and landscapes. The dissemination of this information together with suitable tools through virtual research platforms requires new methods of...

To obtain archaeological simulated maps, we need to compare dates of excavation data, represented by fuzzy numbers. Fuzzy Max Order (FMO) is a partial order relation on the set of the fuzzy numbers. But FMO is not able to compare two fuzzy numbers in some situations. In this paper, we propose a new method, Possibilistic Variation Order, extending FMO. We build new indices to order two fuzzy num...

Most countries prohibit the export of certain antiquities. This practice often leads to illegal excavation and looting for the black market, which damages the items and destroys important aspects of the archaeological record. We argue that long-term leases of antiquities would raise revenue for the country of origin while preserving national long-term ownership rights. By putting antiquities in...

We present here the first step of an interdisciplinary work dealing with underwater photogrammetry and archaeological data management. In the framework of a phd project we develop a set of tools from underwater data capture to 3D underwater GIS for archaeological excavation. The phd project, managed by Julien Seinturier, is monitored by Odile Papini for the data fusion aspect and Pierre Drap fo...