Overview
- Highlights technological improvements on understanding of the past through sensory engagement
- Explains new perspectives on how ancient spaces were intended to be used and the messages they convey
- Examines data representation and new strategies that can be used to formally investigate ancient space
- This book is open access
Part of the book series: Quantitative Methods in the Humanities and Social Sciences (QMHSS)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
This open-access book surveys how digital technology can contribute effectively to improving our understanding of the past, through a sensory engagement based on the evidence of material culture. In particular, it encourages specialists to consider senses and human agency as important factors in studying ancient space, while recognising the role played by digital tools in enhancing a human-centred form of analysis. Significant advances in archaeological computing, digital methods, and sensory approaches have led archaeologists to rethink strategies and methods for creating narratives of the past. Recent progress in data visualisation and implementation, as well as other nascent digital sensory methods, means that it is now easier to explore and experience ancient space from a multiscalar perspective, from the individual body or single building to the wider landscape.
The chapters in Capturing the Senses: Digital Methods for Sensory Archaeologies present innovative methods for representing an embodied experience of ancient space, simulating (but not recreating) ancient behaviours and social interaction. Chapters cover topics including the potentials and pitfalls of visualising, recreating, and re-enacting/experiencing the senses in Virtual Reality environments and also digital reconstructions and auralisations of ancient spaces to study sound sensory perception. Overall, the book demonstrates that multisensory approaches can give a new perspective on how ancient spaces were intended to be used by inhabitants to fulfil a series of purposes including conveying messages and regulating movement.
This is an open-access book.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Eleanor Betts is Lecturer in Classical Studies at The Open University. Her research explores Roman urbanism and religion in Roman and Iron Age Italy (Picenum), underpinned by sensory studies. She develops and applies multisensory approaches to understand people's construction, experience and use of urban and ritual space and landscapes.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Capturing the Senses
Book Subtitle: Digital Methods for Sensory Archaeologies
Editors: Giacomo Landeschi, Eleanor Betts
Series Title: Quantitative Methods in the Humanities and Social Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23133-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-23132-2Published: 13 June 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-23135-3Published: 13 June 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-23133-9Published: 12 June 2023
Series ISSN: 2199-0956
Series E-ISSN: 2199-0964
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 264
Number of Illustrations: 21 b/w illustrations, 74 illustrations in colour
Topics: Statistics for Social Sciences, Humanities, Law, Archaeology, Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences