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3D Digging at Çatalhöyük

The title of the project “3D-[D]igging” (three-dimensional digging) recalls the main goal of the project: to interpret an archaeological excavation in 3D using advanced technologies for visualizing structures, objects and stratigraphic layers; in short “to think” archaeology in 3D. This project, lead by Maurizio Forte (Duke University), is aimed to reproduce virtually the entire archaeological process of excavation using 3D technologies (laser scanners, 3D photogrammetry) on site and 3D Virtual Reality collaborative systems during the interpretation process in lab. Digging is a destructive technique: how can we re-analyze and interpret what we excavate? How to simulate an archaeological excavation with all the stratigraphy? And if we simulate virtually an excavation, how can different archaeologists collaborate in the same virtual space from different locations but sharing the same archaeological data? This research project will face all these issues in a multidisciplinary context.

Read more about it here and here.