Category: Digital Humanities
The 2014 Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR) in San Diego, California was the largest ASOR meeting yet: four-hundred eighty papers (in ninety-seven sessions)...
Rockets, Grenades, and Cats
About a month ago Dr. Arthur Mitchell Fraas, at the University of Pennsylvania, found what may be the greatest discovery of the year so...
Digital Reconstruction of Shetland Settlement Jarlshof in Scotland
In 1897, a series of severe storms washed away parts of the Scottish coastline on Shetland, exposing the over 4,000 year-old remains of a settlement: Jarlshof.
Recently, a team led by Kieran Baxter created a digital reconstruction of the site’s various occupation periods–from its earliest dwelling in 2700 BCE through the Bronze Age and Iron Age. You can see the Viking settlement beginning in 1000 CE as well as a Medieval farm (1300 CE) as well as a laird’s house (ca. 1600 CE). This project is an excellent example of the way that archaeologists can use digital reconstruction to understand and demonstrate how multi-period sites change over time.
Read more about the project in Baxter’s article in Internet Archaeology online journal Issue 36.
Exciting digital projects in Archaeology and Ancient History (ASOR 2013)
Every year, during the week before Thanksgiving, hundreds of scholars of archaeology and ancient history gather together to share their work and explore new...
Review of the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World App for iPad2+
In its initial print edition (2000), The Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World was a groundbreaking collection of colored and detailed maps...
Oxford University and the Vatican partner to publish ancient texts online
Oxford University announced last Tuesday that it is partnering with the Vatican to “make some of the world’s most important Bibles and biblical texts...
National Geographic partners with Google Maps to make historic maps publicly available
Google announced on Friday that National Geographic will be participating in an effort to make over 500 historic maps available as a layer on Google Maps....
New Study Tool: Mapped Timeline of the Roman Empire
Enjoy this brand new study tool, an interactive mapped timeline of the Roman Empire, created by A&P Editor, Jayd Lewis. Click on the picture...
Basic Digital Map Editing
Recently a friend asked what might be a free way to digitally create maps and edit them so that they look “more professional than...
LiBER Linear B Electronic Resources
We’ve recently added the project LiBER (Linear B Electronic Resources) to the Resources page: LiBER (Linear B Electronic Resources) is a CNR-ISMA project which aims...