Re-enacting the sequence : Combined digital methods to study a prehistoric cave
(2019) In Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 11(6). p.2805-2819- Abstract
- This contribution seeks to demonstrate how recently developed 3D GIS platforms can help archeologists in relating to the original context legacy data that can be employed to digitally reconstruct the sequence of arbitrary layers as it was observed and then excavated in the end of the nineteenth century. This research has been conducted on the prehistoric cave of Stora Förvar, located on the small island of Stora Karlsö, in South-Eastern Sweden. As a part of a research project titled “The pioneer settlements of Gotland,” this line of enquiry has sought to combine 3D-based digital acquisition techniques, Geographical Information Systems (GIS), and old archival material (hand-made drawings, artifacts lists, historical pictures) in order to... (More)
- This contribution seeks to demonstrate how recently developed 3D GIS platforms can help archeologists in relating to the original context legacy data that can be employed to digitally reconstruct the sequence of arbitrary layers as it was observed and then excavated in the end of the nineteenth century. This research has been conducted on the prehistoric cave of Stora Förvar, located on the small island of Stora Karlsö, in South-Eastern Sweden. As a part of a research project titled “The pioneer settlements of Gotland,” this line of enquiry has sought to combine 3D-based digital acquisition techniques, Geographical Information Systems (GIS), and old archival material (hand-made drawings, artifacts lists, historical pictures) in order to virtually reconstruct the original sequence as it was excavated through the method of arbitrary layers. At a later stage, the reconstructed sequence has been employed to re-contextualize and analyze the distribution of artifacts so as to detect any possible pattern that could have been useful for defining the chronological boundaries of the Mesolithic phase of habitation of the cave. In brief, three main objectives can be defined: (a) to re-create a spatial connection between the artifacts retrieved at the time of the excavation and the sequence of layers, (b) to define density maps showing the relationship between volumes of layers and categories of artifacts belonging to the sequence, and (c) to further our knowledge about the Mesolithic habitation of the cave, not only vertically (chronologically) but also horizontally. (Less)
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- author
- Landeschi, Giacomo LU ; Apel, Jan LU ; Lundström, Victor ; Storå, Jan ; Lindgren, Stefan LU and Dell'Unto, Nicolo LU
- organization
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- Digital Archaeology Laboratory DARK Lab (research group)
- Archaeology
- eSSENCE: The e-Science Collaboration
- Lund University Humanities Lab
- Evolutionary archaeology-lup-obsolete-HT_759 (research group)
- Crafts and craftspeople-lup-obsolete-HT_748 (research group)
- The Burial Archaeological Research Group – Death, Burial, and Social Identity (research group)
- publishing date
- 2019
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- 3D GIS, Mesolithic, Scandinavian archeology, 3D spatial analysis, Volumetric analysis
- in
- Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences
- volume
- 11
- issue
- 6
- pages
- 2805 - 2819
- publisher
- Springer
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85055935229
- ISSN
- 1866-9565
- DOI
- 10.1007/s12520-018-0724-5
- language
- English
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- yes
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