More Love for the Common Body Sherd: Implications and Challenges of 3D Scanning All Your Pottery

Art407 Public Lecture - free but registration required
Date
Tuesday, November 19, 2024, 3:00 pm4:20 pm
Location
TBA

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Event Description

Through a collaboration with research engineers, our archaeological fieldwork project in Armenia built a custom 3D scanner designed to capture 3D models of pottery sherds en masse.  We are still in the implementation phase, but we have already created 3D models of over 20% of all ceramic fragments we have collected.  This leads to the question: what do we do with all these data?  This talk will introduce our processes, the challenges, and the ways we hope to enhance our study of pottery in the future.  Ultimately, our experiment aims to bring digital big data approaches to even the smallest finds.

Sponsors
  • Program in Archaeology, Department of Art & Archaeology
  • Archaeological Institute of America
Event Category
AY 2024–2025
Program-in-Archaeology