Abstract
Equipped with high tech instruments including a laser scanner a and hand-held GPS receiver Heidelberger archaeologists travelled to India in order to investigate a fortification which dates to the Mauryan age – an ancient empire period. Paul Yule describes the unexpected obstacles that the archaeologist must overcome and the result of the research, which first began by means of a model fashioned in salt dough. It seems unfortunate but true that the ancient building remains under study may soon give way to housing development.
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Lal BB (1949) Sisupalgarh 1948: An Early Historical Fort in Eastern India. Ancient India 5:62–105. An Indo-American team took up excavation at the site in 2006.
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Yule P, Böhler W (2004) Sisupalgarh: an Early Historic Fortress in Coastal Orissa and its Cousins. Beitr Allgem und vergleichende Arch 24:15–29, CD ROM. http://www.archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/savifadok/volltexte/2009/222/
See also Geoinformatics in Sisupalgarh in the Orissa Region of India: Getting Started, Informations- und Messtechnik vol. 6. In: Boochs F, Müller H (ed) (2005) Entwicklungen auf dem Gebiet der Informations- und Messtechnik. Festschrift zur Verabschiedung von Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Böhler. Shaker, Aachen:141–146
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Grants from the German Research Council (DFG) made this project possible. I adapted my text from a previous article entitled Mit Salzteig und Laserscanner, Ruperto Carola 2, 2006, 20–24, ISSN 0035-998x, digital versions: http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/presse/ ruca/ruca06-2/20.html; http://www.schattenblick.de/infopool/geist/history/ggfor090.html
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Yule, P. (2013). Salt Dough and a Laser Scanner. In: Bock, H., Jäger, W., Winckler, M. (eds) Scientific Computing and Cultural Heritage. Contributions in Mathematical and Computational Sciences, vol 3. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28021-4_30
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