The prototype illustrates the use 3D Virtual Worlds and Artificial Intelligence in the domain of Cultural Heritage.The aim of the project is to recreate the ancient city of Uruk from the period around 3000 B.C. in the Virtual World of Second Life letting history students experience how it looked like and how its citizens behaved in the past. The prototype currently features 4 autonomous agents re-enacting the daily life cycle of 2 fisherman families. The recreation of the city and agent behaviors are being modeled under supervision of subject matter experts and based on the results of archaeological excavations and available historical data.

Head Smashed In Buffalo Jump is one of the oldest and best preserved in North America. This Pis'kun is a World Heritage Site for preserving and exhibiting landscape and archaeology of the plains bison culture. Native Blackfoot Guides share their culture and stories in the Visitor Centre and Tipi Camp. Architectural Award Winner. Travel Industry Award Winner.

Montage of digging sites near Cashel, Tipperary, Ireland Summer 2006. The True Horror of Irish Archaeology!!! Produced by Jerry O'Connor

A brief video comprising some of the work we have carried out in 2007 at Birmingham Archaeology.

Archaeology is a destructive process in which accurate and detailed recording of a site is imperative. As a site is exposed, documentation is required in order to recreate and understand the site in context. We have developed a 3D modeling pipeline that can assist archaeologists in the documentation effort by building rich, geometrically and photometrically accurate 3D models of the site. The modeling effort begins with data acquisition (images, range scans, GIS data, and video) and ends with the use of a sophisticated visualization tool that can be used by researchers to explore and understand the site. The pipeline includes new methods for shadow-based registration of 2D images and temporal change detection. Our multimodal augmented reality system allows users wearing head-tracked, see-through, head-worn displays to visualize the site model and associated archaeological artifacts, and to interact with them using speech and gesture. (Authors: Peter Allen, Steven Feiner, Alejandro Troccoli, Hrvoje Benko, Edward Ishak, Ben Smith, Columbia University. Please visit http://www.edwardishak.com for more information.)

Join Archaeologist & Historian James Balme in his latest short film release. He takes us on a walk through history in the quiet Cheshire village of Warburton visiting the ancient church of St Werburgh as he explains his archaeological and historical research and shows us various interesting areas of the village including the remains of the village cross and stocks from the middle ages that is not where it originally stood !!!!

Learn more here: Historic Media Productions

A classic scene from the eerie vintage short-film adaptation of the M.R James Story, 'A warning to the Curious'. This is the scene where the amateur archaeologist meets a mysterious local guardian. But not before he warns him with the words 'no digging here'.

The purpose of the Preservation Today netcast, podcast and accompanying website is to help inspire the advancement of heritage values in our society using the new form of communication called social media. We produce a video news program called Preservation Today. You are currently on our shownotes website and blog that incorporates frequently updated news from online sources. The program looks like a television news broadcast but is based on the new way people people like to get their information, relating to their intellect and interests rather than appealing to the lowest common denominator and peppered with shock value. In short, its a show about ideas. With Preservation Today, you will find a new type of journalism using the heritage preservation community as its focus. It retains the news gathering techniques and production values of traditional media as familiarized by six oclock television news programs across the country. But it also integrates social media tools to help viewers understand how to communicate heritage values in the new Web 2.0 world. http://www.preseervationtoday.com

News report on use of mid range laser scanning in the heritage sector in Cornwall.

In early August, 2006, the Russian nuclear icebreaker Yamal voyaged to the North Pole and back. Along the way, Dr. P.J. Capelotti records the expedition base camps of Frederick Jackson at Cape Flora, Fridtjof Nansen at Cape Norway, and Walter Wellman at Cape Tegetthoff. This channel is for students in the Anthropology and American Studies courses taught by Dr. P.J. Capelotti at Penn State Abington College in Abington, PA. Here you will find videos related to cultural anthropology; the theory, method, and history of archaeology; and to the history and archaeology of polar exploration. http://www.youtube.com/PSUAbingtonAnthy

Ancient Monuments at Kilmartin Kilmartin Glen, Western Scotland is the location of several important Neolithic, Bronze Age, and Iron Age sites, including stone circles, several burial cairns, chambered cairns, and standing stones. For four thousand years the people of Kilmartin Glen have reused monuments. This film shows the significant role they have played through time. by Michael Foster

And in Indonesia, archaeologists have found an ancient tomb with a 25 hundred-year old body inside. It was a little village near Bali, Indonesia. Researchers from the Bali Archaeology Bureau are studying a 25 hundred-year old sarcophagus uncovered in Keramas Village, Indonesia. It is the thirteenth ancient tomb of its kind uncovered in Keramas.