Abstract
Visual and spatial technologies are increasingly revolutionising how archaeology and many other disciplines understand the past in relation to the contemporary world. From digital objects to landscapes, through geophysics, geographical imaging systems and the creation of virtual worlds, new technology provides alternative routes to seeing and understanding both past and present [1]. This research paper describes an interdisciplinary art and design approach to rebuilding and visualising phase 3vi of the Stonehenge site for interactive cultural heritage applications in the 21st Century. A 3D digital research team based at the School of Art, Design & Architecture collaborated with music technologists, sculptors and game designers to gather, interpret, re-imagine and digitally re-model historical and contemporary data on Stonehenge to create a virtual 3D reconstruction of Stonehenge phase 3vi. The researchers discuss the range of digital data, tools, methods used in this phase of the Virtual Stonehenge reconstruction project.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Gaffney, V., Wuyts, A.: The Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes Project: Virtual Excavation & Digital Recreation (2010), http://heritage-key.com/blogs/ann/stonehenge-hidden-landscapes-project-virtual-excavation-digital-recreation
English Heritage National Monuments Record, http://www.englishheritage.org.uk/professional/archives-and-collections/nmr/
Ambpnetwork, http://ambpnetwork.wordpress.com
Sanders, D.H.: Why do Virtual Heritage? Archaeology, http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/virtualheritage/
Gill, A.A.: Digitizing the Past: Charting New Courses in the Modeling of Virtual Landscapes. Visual Resources 25(4), 313–332 (2009)
Hess, M., Were, G., Brown, I., MacDonald, S., Simon Millar, F.: E-Curator: A 3D Web-based Archive for Conservators and Curators. Ariadne Issue 60, http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue60/hess-et-al/
Anderson, E.F., McLoughlin, L., Liarokapis, F., Peters, C., Petridis, P., de Freitas, S.: Serious games in cultural heritage. In: The 10th International Symposium on Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Cultural Heritage VAST - State of the Art Reports (2009)
Foni, A., Papagiannakisa, G., Magnenat-Thalmann, N.: A Virtual Heritage Case Study– A Modern Approach to the Revival of Ancient Historical or Archeological Sites. MIRALab, University of Geneva (2003)
Bawaya, M.: Virtual Archaeologists Recreate Parts of Ancient Worlds. Science 327, 140–141 (2010)
Arnold, D., Coulié, A., Kolin, D., Geert, W.: European Commision Research & Innovation. Cultural heritage - a newdimension (2012) http://ec.europa.eu/research/infocentre/article_en
Barrett, J.: Fragments From Antiquity: An Archaeology of Social Life in Britain, 2900 – 1200 BC, Oxford (1994)
Bryan, P.G., Clowes, M.: Surveying Stonehenge By Photogrammetry. The Photogrammetric Record 15(89), 739–751 (1997)
Goskar, T.: The Stonehenge Landscape in 3D (2007), http://www.wessexarch.co.uk/blogs/
English Heritage, 3D Stonehenge Model Unveiled (2011), http://www.englishheritage.org.uk/about/news/3d-stonehenge-model-unveiled/
Gaffney, C., Gaffney, V., Neubauer, W., Baldwin, E., Chapman, H., Garwood, P., Moulden, H., Sparrow, T., Bates, R., Löcker, K., Hinterleitner, A., Trinks, I., Nau, E., Zitz, T., Floery, S., Verhoeven, G., Doneus, M.: The Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes Project. Archaeol. Prospect (2012), doi:10.1002/arp.1422
Parker Pearson, M., Cleal, R., Pollard, J., Richards, C., Thomas, J., Tilley, C., Welham, K., Chamberlain, A., Chenery, C., Evans, J., Montgomery, J., Richards, M.: The Age of Stonehenge (2007), http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/9174/1/Age_of_Stonehenge_Antiquity-2.pdf
Till, Rupert Songs of the Stones: an investigation into the musical history and culture of Stonehenge. International Association for the Study of Popular Music Journal 1(2), pp. 1–18 (2010)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2012 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Unver, E., Taylor, A. (2012). Virtual Stonehenge Reconstruction. In: Ioannides, M., Fritsch, D., Leissner, J., Davies, R., Remondino, F., Caffo, R. (eds) Progress in Cultural Heritage Preservation. EuroMed 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7616. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34234-9_46
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34234-9_46
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-642-34233-2
Online ISBN: 978-3-642-34234-9
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)