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Excel Tutorial for Archaeologists – Part 1

February 16, 2012 / Education, Technology
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Often people don’t have access to complex relational databases OR need one. this is useful for artefact or sample analysis. Gwen Kelly has produced this first part of an excellent walkthrough tutorial. How to use the advanced filter feature, generate a lookup table, create a named range, and use the VLOOKUP and IFERROR functions in Excel. Search terms:excel tutorialExcel Tutorial for Archaeologistsexcel nachschlagetabelleexcel archaeologytutoriel excelexcel tutorial türkçetutoriel base de données archéologiegeçmiş teknolojitutoriel excel avancéأالبرنامج التعليمي إكسل

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New Aboriginal genome study rewrites the history books

February 11, 2012 / Featured, News, Technology
Views: 9,030

An international team of scientists have just published findings that re-interpret the history of our species. The study, published in the September 22 edition of the journal Science, details how a lock of hair donated by a West Australian Aboriginal man around a hundred years ago was used to sequence a full genome, revealing a new twist in the tale of humankind’s dispersal across the world. For more info, visit http://media.murdoch.edu.au/ Search terms:متى ظهرت تكنولوجياautodesk 123d catch működésegenom tarihaborigene Genomアボリジニ [...]

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Duplicating the Fossils of Human Evolution at Penn

January 31, 2012 / News, Technology
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Discovering a multi-million year old human fossil may represent a truly one-of-a-kind look into the history of the human species, but even the most well preserved specimen is not much use in a vacuum. Fossils must be compared to each other to give scientists insight into where they fit in the long progression to humans of today, and here, the rarity of such finds are a real obstacle. Janet Monge has a solution. As the associate director and manager of [...]

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Virtual Archaeology and the Stonehenge landscape

January 30, 2012 / Film & TV, Technology
Views: 6,066

Using quad bikes and computer gaming software, archaeologists are reconstructing the landscape around Stonehenge to learn more about this ancient monument. Read more about new discoveries at Stonehenge in this Scientific American feature: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=putting-stonehenge-in-its-place For latest videos from the Scientific American video page :http://scientificamerican.com/video.cfm Search terms:Televisor antiguo Marca Horizonvirtuelle archäologiereconstruccion de stonehengestonehenge krajobrazve stonehengevirtual archeologiecatedral de nidaros vista aereaبالعربي stonehageTv gaming softwaretuto 123d beta 8

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UAV technology in aerial archaeology

January 26, 2012 / Technology
Views: 5,086

Microcopter camera platform use in archaeology. From the Hungarian company http://www.deltahf.hu/ Search terms:123d catch academic publications123d catch roman colosseumdrone archaeologyutilisation des drone dans larcheologieUAV　blue　horizontechnologie des dronesles drones et l\archéologieiha teknolojisidrone archéologiedrone archaeology\

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The Sweet Track, Somerset – In the Groove

January 24, 2012 / Featured, Technology
Views: 6,603

A run along the full (2km) length of the Sweet Track, an Early Neolithic timber built walkway across a patch of the Somerset Levels. This is a fabulous record of the track, the connections it has with further afield and has a damn good beat as well.! Check out Digital Digging here: http://digitaldigging.co.uk/ Search terms:the sweet trackالتكنولوجيا في الماضيSweet Track Somersetarchéologie aériennesweet trackpast horizons tv sweet trackneolithic somersetjadeiteautodesk 123d catch resimli anlatım123 milliós tv

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Archaeology in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands

January 15, 2012 / Film & TV, Technology
Views: 3,975

This is a time lapse video made from 1150 photos. They illustrate part of a day of recording pictographs at Panther Cave on the Rio Grande river. The photos were shot every 10 seconds with a GoPro HD Hero, batch renamed with IrfanView, and made into a video using ffmpeg at 24 frames per second. Search terms:cave archaeologystonehenge werner herzog

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Cuneiform Tablet Restoration

January 5, 2012 / Education, Technology
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Narrated by Assistant Curator, Dr. Adam Aja, this video explores The Semitic Museum’s Cuneiform Tablet Restoration Project. These tablets were excavated from Nuzi (modern day Iraq). The Semitic Museum began this restoration project in 1999. Narrated by Assistant Curator, Dr. Adam Aja, this video explores The Semitic Museum’s Cuneiform Tablet Restoration Project. These tablets were excavated from Nuzi (modern day Iraq). The Semitic Museum began this restoration project in 1999. Search terms:fossil / archaeology 壁画の意味vi yazılı [...]

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3D Technologies in Archaeology

December 30, 2011 / Featured, Technology
Views: 5,433

This is a compilation of some of our other videos, and some new material, put together for the Council for British Archaeology Wessex regional conference, held at the Ordnance Survey headquarters in Southampton, UK. In this short film, you can see the Stonehenge landscape in 3D, view some 3D models of bones from the Amesbury Archer’s skeleton, scans of WWI and WWII graffiti, and a new cut of the Seabed Prehistory archaeological reconstruction. The video was put together by Tom [...]

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Iron age house reconstruction in Eastern Europe

December 24, 2011 / Featured, Technology
Views: 5,533

Based on field archeological works. Project accomplished together with Czech Technical University in Prague and east Bohemia Museum in Pardubice Search terms:archaeology reconstruction house iron agecasa con 123dCOMMENT MARCHE AUTODESK 123D CATCHIRON AGE ヨーロッパ鉄器時代　ヨーロッパ

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The mysterious hominids from the Denisova Cave

December 23, 2011 / Featured, Film & TV, Technology
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Bence Viola from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig discovered the tooth fragments together with Russian colleagues in the Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains. Initially, he thought the inconspicuous-looking object was the molar of a cave bear. But when the remaining fragments of the tooth turned up, it became obvious that the researchers had found the tooth of a hominid. It was too large, however, to be from a modern man or Neanderthal. When the researchers [...]

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Temple of Fortuna Augusta, Pompeii

December 21, 2011 / Technology
Views: 3,071

Reconstrucción infográfica del Templo de Fortuna Augusta en Pompeya. 3d virtual reconstruction of the Temple of Fortuna Augusta, Pompeii. Más información: http://italicaromana.blogspot.com Search terms:tempel van fortuna augusta pompeiiświątynia fortunytemplo de la fortuna augusta pompeyatemplo fortuna augusta pompeiFORTUNA AVGVSTAThe Temple of Fortuna Augustathe temple of fortuna augusta pompeiitemple of fortuna augusta pompeiitemple of fortuna augusta in pompeiitemple of fortuna augusta

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Virtual Archaeology : collection of work (2009-2011)

December 13, 2011 / Education, Technology
Views: 5,031

Chawee Busayarat’s work involves architecture, informatics engineering, archaeology , geography and computer science. He considers these knowledges as an approach to understand buildings in an archaeological context. The work include development of informatic models and tools, to be used in heritage architecture study, such as its construction, valorization, conservation, methods of restoration and environment influence. Search terms:archéologie virtuellespitzkloofvirtual archaeology

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Modeling and texturing method of Chateau Comtal of Carcassonne

December 13, 2011 / Education, Technology
Views: 2,957

Short film showing the animation of modeling and texturing method at Chateau Comtal of Carcassonne. How phototextures are applied to models. Search terms:past madelıcarcassone modelingchâteau comtalchateau comtal carcassonnechateau comtal informacionmodelisation carcassonnetextúrázástexturing methodtexturising tłumaczenie

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University of Ghent UAV archaeology

December 11, 2011 / Featured, Technology
Views: 3,937

This movie gives a short introduction into the operating principles of the two UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) deployed by Ghent University to acquire the necessary aerial imagery for creating 3D reconstructions of archaeological interest (excavations, standing structures, landscapes, etc.) Search terms:archeologie 3d ganduav archäologieuav archaeologymd4 100luftaufnahmen md4luchtfotografie uavhelikitearueologia y uavالتصوير الجوي الاثارuniversité uav

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