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.

Reconstruction of the Sanctuary at Avebury (stone and timber phase). www.digitaldigging.co.uk

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 !!!!

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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

Short video taken on the first day the New Acropolis Museum opened for the public.

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

Archaeologists have discovered a gold necklace over four thousand years old. It is the oldest gold artifact discovered in the Americas yet. Here's more on the story. Archaeologists have just discovered an ancient golden artifact in Peru. The necklace was found near Lake Titicaca on Monday. Using Radiocarbon dating, scientists estimate the necklace was made around 2100 B.C. Anthropologist Mark Aldenderfer of the University of Arizona and colleagues discovered the necklace next to an adult skull in a burial pit at Jiskairumoko. Jiskairumoko is a small hamlet settled by hunter-gathers from 3300 to 1500 BC. Archaeologists from Peru's National Culture Institue say the necklace could be even older than that. [Eugenia Cevallos, Archaeologist]: Male