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.
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 !!!!
Is captain Cook the first explorer of Australia? A new archeology discovery just might rewrite the Australian history. These archaeologists have been on a seven-week expedition to Western Arnhem Land in Australia's Northern Territory, where they've been testing the established historical timeline about the first contact between local indigenous people and foreign traders, who the archaeologists think might be the Macassans from Indonesia, for trading the trepang, or sea cucumbers.
Ephemera, made in 2004 by Sean Caveille, is a short film about the popularity of archaeology/history programmes on TV. At the time, new quick-paced series like Extreme Archaeology (Channel 4) and Hidden Treasure (BBC 2) were desperately trying to capture new viewers by turning archaeology into that most dreaded of adjectives - 'sexy'. Four years later and the BBC are trying to do the same thing again with Bonekickers...
Ephemera has a distinctive visual style which is achieved through placing the importance back upon the archaeology itself: once the interviews were filmed and edited, they were video-projected onto prehistoric West Kennet long barrow and re-filmed. More about this can be found here:
http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/video/ephemera-about.htm
The director’s website:
http://www.timesequence.com/
These are 'five main occupations' at digs in the mediterranean area - at least, when I was there!
1) Endless sweeping, to keep surfaces & finds visible.
2) Removing modern fill, so that the nature of the soil or the shape of the 'historic floor' becomes visible.
4) Hiding from the boss...ahum! I mean discussing finds, soil shapes and everything else that's important. ;-)
5) More digging with small tools.
From http://www.youtube.com/user/anneliessalome
Archaeologists working at Hampton Court Palace recently unearthed the earliest surviving building ever discovered at the historic site - along with evidence of an original Tudor water feature and the site of a fire started by Edward III
This video was made for the Historic Royal Palaces for more about themclick Here
Journey of Mankind the Peopling of the World. In part one, with the aid of modern science Professor Stephen Oppenheimer sheds light on the most important journey ever made by mankind.
From the earliest figurative rock art of the remote Kimberley region of north-western Australia to the mysterious stone statues of Easter Island. Throwing light on the artistic legacy of our ancient ancestors, we travel from the deep caves of Niaux in France to the magnificent carved giraffe of the Sahara, and on to the dawn of the age of the megalith in Europe. In this first series of iLecture documentary films, join us as we explore our prehistoric world.
Drawing on knowledge of some of the worlds leading experts the Bradshaw Foundation website covers ancient Rock Art and Cave Paintings found throughout the world, along with articles and latest news on Archaeology, Anthropology and The Journey of Mankind. To watch iLecture Documentary Films covering these subjects please visit ...
http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/ilectures
Experimental archaeology at Lejre Experimental Center (Denmark). Watch the video about this visionary experiment: a whole 1:1 scale-reconstruction of an Iron Age house was sat on fire in 1967 and the remains of it where methodically excavated 26 years later. This experience will help archaeologists to better understand what the archaeological traces out of excavations actually mean.
This takes place at the atmospheric and exiting tourist attraction suitable for the whole family. 10.000 years of Danish history is brought to life. Houses and settings from the Iron Age, Stone Age, Viking age and 18th century, in a beautiful historic landscape near Roskilde.
http://www.english.lejrecenter.dk/
