Traditional and Digital Building Archaeology, a Balance Between Old and New: A case study of the abbey Saint-Mathieu de Fine-Terre
(2020) ARKM22 20201Historical Archaeology
- Abstract
- This thesis aimed to work with different techniques of building archaeology, both traditional and digital. The goal was to define the possibilities offered by the “traditional” and the “digital” building archaeology but also to show the limits of these two methods. The main issue of discussing methodological problems in building archaeology was the need to define digital building archaeology, especially photogrammetry. Since these tools are not optimized in archaeology (building archaeology or not) the risk was that this lack of optimization skewed the discussion. This is the reason why a section of this thesis is dedicated to an optimisation attempt of photogrammetry.
This desire to find a balance between “old” and “new” building... (More) - This thesis aimed to work with different techniques of building archaeology, both traditional and digital. The goal was to define the possibilities offered by the “traditional” and the “digital” building archaeology but also to show the limits of these two methods. The main issue of discussing methodological problems in building archaeology was the need to define digital building archaeology, especially photogrammetry. Since these tools are not optimized in archaeology (building archaeology or not) the risk was that this lack of optimization skewed the discussion. This is the reason why a section of this thesis is dedicated to an optimisation attempt of photogrammetry.
This desire to find a balance between “old” and “new” building archaeology takes the form of a building archaeology survey of the abbey Saint-Mathieu de Fine-Terre in Brittany. This case study is focused on the north gutter wall of the abbey church and is divided into a “traditional” analysis and a “digital” one. The reason for these two different analyses was not only to show what type of results one method could give but also to show what it could not give. By highlighting the pros and cons of these to methods I was able to propose a modus operandi for a large scale building archaeology study of a complex site like the one at the Pointe Saint-Mathieu. (Less)
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- author
- Derory, Théo LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- ARKM22 20201
- year
- 2020
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- 3D analysis, abbey, Brittany, building archaeology, France, methodology, optimisation, photogrammetry, UAV
- language
- English
- id
- 9019690
- date added to LUP
- 2020-08-17 11:11:06
- date last changed
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abstract = {{This thesis aimed to work with different techniques of building archaeology, both traditional and digital. The goal was to define the possibilities offered by the “traditional” and the “digital” building archaeology but also to show the limits of these two methods. The main issue of discussing methodological problems in building archaeology was the need to define digital building archaeology, especially photogrammetry. Since these tools are not optimized in archaeology (building archaeology or not) the risk was that this lack of optimization skewed the discussion. This is the reason why a section of this thesis is dedicated to an optimisation attempt of photogrammetry.
This desire to find a balance between “old” and “new” building archaeology takes the form of a building archaeology survey of the abbey Saint-Mathieu de Fine-Terre in Brittany. This case study is focused on the north gutter wall of the abbey church and is divided into a “traditional” analysis and a “digital” one. The reason for these two different analyses was not only to show what type of results one method could give but also to show what it could not give. By highlighting the pros and cons of these to methods I was able to propose a modus operandi for a large scale building archaeology study of a complex site like the one at the Pointe Saint-Mathieu.}},
author = {{Derory, Théo}},
language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Traditional and Digital Building Archaeology, a Balance Between Old and New: A case study of the abbey Saint-Mathieu de Fine-Terre}},
year = {{2020}},
}