Images and artefacts of the ancient world / edited by Alan K. Bowman & Michael Brady.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bowman, Alan K.

Brady, Michael, 1945-

British Academy.

Royal Society (Great Britain)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Antiquities--Computer simulation.

Antiquities.

Imaging systems.

Excavations (Archaeology)--Interpretive programs--Computer simulation.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Excavations (Archaeology)--Interpretive programs.

Computer simulation.

Physical Description:

xiv, 150 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford : published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2005.

Summary:

In this genuinely productive interdisciplinary dialogue, engineering scientists, archaeologists and historians discuss how recent exciting developments in imaging, image analysis, and image display/diffusion can be applied to three-dimensional objects of material culture from the classical world, ranging from inscribed writing tablets to buildings and urban sites. The fifteen papers explore the ways in which the scientific contributors and the historians are thinking about subjectivity of interpretation, visual cognition, and the need to improve the presentation of evidence so as to feed directly back into their own scientific thinking and to encourage genuine innovation in developing methods of image-enhancement and the interpretation of objects.

Credits:

At head of title: the Royal Society.

Notes:

Includes bibliographic references.

ISBN:

0197262961

OCLC:

56446739