Visualizing the Past for the Present: Archaeology in an Interdisciplinary Age

Ashley M. Richter

Ashley M. RichterPhD Student in

Anthropological Archaeology

National Science Foundation’s (NSF)

Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) project for

Training, Research and Education in Engineering for Cultural Heritage Diagnostics (TEECH)

at the Center of Interdisciplinary Science for Art, Architecture, and Archaeology (CISA3)

at the California Institute of Telecommunication and Information Technology (Calit2)

at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD)

TABLE OF CONTENTS•What is Archaeology?

•How does Cultural Heritage Diagnostic Visualization fit in to Archaeology?

•UCSD & CISA3 pushing the cultural heritage diagnostic visualization envelope

•Work on Integrated Tech for Data Capture & Dissemination

•Establishment of the CISA3 Undergraduate Research Internship (C.U.R.Is)

•The Future of Cultural Heritage Diagnostics…

What is Archaeology?

The Scientific Study of Material Remains

of Past Human Cultures

= Artifacts and Sites

Why?

So that we can try and interpret intersections between Objects, Space, and Time

to make sense of our past.

Often works best to visualize for dissemination- timelines, maps, etc…= BIG DATA issues

I study spatial relations within sites and the placement of sites within the landscape.

V.S.

The center of campus has moved as the campus expanded

Roman Dining vs Contemporary Dining at the Loft

How do we do this in archaeology?

New Technologies Continue to Change the Game…

PHYSICAL

Evolving Data Capturing Technologies Mean

INTANGIBLE

(Ceci n’est pas le site!)

The Site A Photograph of the Site (2D)

Accurate 3D Point Cloud Model of the Site

Layered Realities!!

3D Immersive Cave Systems

Collaborative Visualization Walls

Augmented Reality: ARtifact

Capable Point Rendering Software

Center of Interdisciplinary Science for Art, Architecture, and

Archaeology=

Terrestrial LiDAR= The best way to get a dense data scaffold in the field- if it could be adapted for rapid deployment in

uncertain environments…

TEST CASE 2011 Khirbat Faynan, Jordan *testing the engineering*creating metadata standards & workflow *building a digital scaffold

Rescue LiDAR at Umm al-Amad

SANDCASTLES FOR SCIENCE

NSF-IGERT Mini- Grant Project: Sediment Interval & Site Deformation Processes: Exploring Time Lapse Laser Scanning Capabilities & Methodologies for Archaeology

Jordan 2012: Back at Faynan looking at integrating more technologies into the data capture process…

Invited to collect data at Petra….

The Temple of the Winged Lions with the American Center of Oriental Research’s

Conservation Project

Petra Mosaic Church

Fall Field Work in Italy

The CISA3 Undergraduate Research Interns: Past & Present

•Rebecca Asch, International Studies, Data Collection Management•Shelby Cohantz, Cognitive Science, Neurological User Interface Design

•James M. Darling, Cognitive Science, Phenomenological User Interface Design•Ross Davison, Archaeology, Laser Scanning Use in Field Archaeology

(now graduated, works with CyArk)•Jonathan Eliashiv, Geophysics, Underwater Site De-Formation

•Aliya Hoff, Anthropology- Underwater Archaeology•Kat Huggins, Anthropology, Illustration Apps, Materiality & 3D Printing

•Annie Jessup-Snyder, Visualizing Lithic Typologies•Jessica Linback, International Studies, Data Hierarcihes for Point Clouds

•Bridget McGovern, Linguistics, Education Outreach•Adrian Phillips, ICAM, Social Implications of Augmented Reality Systems

•Savannah Shifrin, Anthropology, Coastal Site Deformation•Leah Trujillo, Anthropology, Education Outreach

(graduated- now works for LACHMA)•Lillian Wakefield, Environmental Chemistry, XRF & Multispectral Imaging for Cultural

Heritage Diagnostic Visualization

Taking our terrestrial data collection and visualization methodologies and applying them towards underwater

cultural heritage surveys

Underwater Archaeology

Multi-Spectral Imaging

X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF)

Radiography

Engineering

Computer Science

Cognitive Science

Anthropology

AncientHistory

Museum Studies

ArchaeologyPublic Archaeology

Chemistry

Physics

Political Science

Mathematics

Architecture

Visual Arts

Interdisciplinary & Collaborative

Material Science

ArtHistory

New something all its own- lots of names for it...

*CyberArchaeology * * Archaeoinformatics* *Archaeological

Visualization * * Computational Archaeology *

*Cultural Heritage Diagnostics* *Digital Archaeology* *Digital Heritage *

Cultural Heritage Diagnostics PhD Track?

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS• The National Science Foundation (NSF) Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT)

project for Training, Research and Education in Engineering for Cultural Heritage Diagnostics (TEECH)

• the Center of Interdisciplinary Science for Art, Architecture, and Archaeology (CISA3)•

• the California Institute of Telecommunication and Information Technology (Calit2)•

• the Anthropology Department at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD)

• My fellow CISA3 Asgardians: Vid Petrovic, Tom Wypych, David Vanoni, and Andrew Huyhn

• My CISA3 colleagues, esp: John Mangan, Joe DeBlasio, David Srour, Jason Kimball

• My CURIs- especially James Darling and Aliya Hoff

• Professors Thomas E. Levy (Anthropology), Falko Kuester (Computer Science & Engineering), Maurizio Seracini (EmerituS Engineering)

• The fabulous Alex Hubenko and amazing Vanessa Pool

Interested in Learning/Seeing/Participating?

Email contact: arichter@ucsd.edu

Or Come Visit CISA3 at Calit2

Second floor of Atkinson Hall